Robert Cantley is a conservationist

Conservationist

Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...

 and Managing Director of Borneo Exotics, a Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

n-based plant nursery specialising in tissue-cultured and seed-grown Nepenthes

Nepenthes

The Nepenthes , popularly known as tropical pitcher plants or monkey cups, are a genus of carnivorous plants in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus comprises roughly 130 species, numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids...

species and hybrids. Cantley has contributed to a number of papers on Nepenthes. The natural hybrid Nepenthes × cantleyi

Nepenthes x cantleyi

Nepenthes × cantleyi is a natural hybrid involving N. bicalcarata and N. gracilis. It is quite rare outside of Brunei, despite its parent species being more widespread throughout Borneo....

and cultivar

Cultivar

A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...

 Nepenthes 'Cantley's Red' are named after him.

Borneo Exotics

Borneo Exotics was established by Cantley and Diana Williams in 1997. As of 2009, the nursery stocked more than 130 Nepenthes taxa, totalling over 180,000 plants annually. In Pitcher Plants of the Old World

Pitcher Plants of the Old World

Pitcher Plants of the Old World is a two-volume monograph by Stewart McPherson on the pitcher plants of the genera Nepenthes and Cephalotus. It was published in May 2009 by Redfern Natural History Productions...

, Stewart McPherson

Stewart McPherson (geographer)

Stewart R. McPherson is a British geographer.He studied at the University of Durham in England, the University of Tübingen in Germany and Yale University in the United States....

 described it as "the world's foremost specialist producer of Nepenthes species".

Borneo Exotics operates a number of growing facilities spread over two locations: lowland species are kept at a nursery in Moragahahena and highlanders in Lindula

Lindula

Lindula is a town and Urban Council in Nuwara Eliya District in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. With Talawakele it forms the Talawakele-Linduala urban council.-References:...

. The company won a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show

Chelsea Flower Show

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London...

in 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2011, and a Silver Gilt Medal in 2005. Borneo Exotics also won a silver medal and two other awards at the World Orchid Exhibition in 2011.