Fred Hageneder is a naturalist who has written eight books on the ethnobotany of trees and on woodland ecology. Some of his work has been translated into ten languages (Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Czech, Estonian, and Japanese). Fred Hageneder is a founding member of the Ancient Yew Group (AYG), an independent research group working to protect ancient yews in the UK. His two monographs on the European yew have met with broad academic approval and generated invitations to appear as a speaker at congresses across the UK, Europe, and as far as Turkey. He works temporarily as external reader (Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California) or peer reviewer (University of Chicago Press) for ethnobotanical topics.
Hageneder is a member of SANASI, a multidisciplinary international group of scientists who since 2013, with the support of the Open University, have been supporting indigenous uardians around the world to protect their natural refuges from land grabbing and destruction. Furthermore, he is a member of the Ecocentric Alliance, a network of university professors, ecologists, conservationists and activists advocating ecocentrism and deep green ethics.
Fred Hageneder lives in Wales as an author, musician, graphic designer and lecturer.
