Adriana Hoffmann

Adriana Elisabeth Hoffmann Jacoby was a Chilean botanist, environmentalist, and author. She was executive secretary of Chile's National Environment Commission from 2000 to 2001. She advocated for the sustainable management and protection of Chilean forests, leading opposition to illegal logging in her role as coordinator of Defensores del Bosque Chileno since 1992. Hoffmann authored over a dozen books on the flora of Chile, as well as 106 botanical names, mostly realignments of species and infraspecific taxa of cactus.