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R.Pakalnis will be armored on Sunday at 4 pm in Vilnius Funeral Palace, (Olandų St.), Hall 6. The funeral will be on Monday (21) at 3 pm In Viršuliškės cemetery at the family grave.
Born in the village of Kirkliai, Utena County, after graduating in forestry, Romas Pakalnis dedicated his entire life to the preservation of the country’s natural and cultural heritage. Working at the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences together with prof. K.Ėringis started a new field of Landscape Ecology.
At the end of the Soviet era, he was actively involved in the fight against the T6 oil rig at the Curonian Spit. He was a member of the Lithuanian initiative group Sąjūdis and the First Sąjūdis Seimas. Active co-author of the Lithuanian concept of nature conservation and Lithuanian education.
2000-2008 Member and President of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Council. Since 1997 President of the Eugenija Šimkūnaitė Charity and Support Foundation.
While he was director of the Institute of Botany, the scientific journal Botanica Lituanica was published. The restoration of the Verkiai Palace, where the Botanical Institute was located, and the management of the park were his civic duties, also expressed in the book Verkiai: Past, Present, Dream.
2012-2018 was the chairman of the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO. Even with serious illness, he studied the world’s first Aukštumala wetland mentioned in the monograph and participated in its restoration. Until the last days of his life, he dealt with the issues of ecological and cultural heritage.
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