Raman Sukumar

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Raman Sukumar is an Indian ecologist best known for his work on the ecology of the Asian elephant and wildlife-human conflict. He also works on climate change. [1] and tropical forest ecology. He was born in India in 1955. In 1986, Sukumar helped to design the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, the first of its kind in India. In 1997, he set up the Asian Nature Conservation Foundation, a public charitable trust that incorporates the Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre, an organization that has carried out several field projects in India and other Asian countries on elephants and their habitats. [2] In 2006, he was awarded the International Cosmos Prize, Japan, the first Indian to receive this award. [3] He was also commended by the Prime Minister of India for contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.[ citation needed ]

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He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Madras in 1977 and did a Masters in botany at the same university. He obtained a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in 1985. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University in 1991 and was the Chair at the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science for over eight years (2004–12). He continues to pursue conservation-based scientific research as a professor at this centre and is often called upon to represent Indian wildlife scientists in international, national and regional governmental committees.[ citation needed ]

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  1. ↑ "Website of Raman Sukumar from CES, Indian Institute of Science Website" . Retrieved 24 September 2009.
  2. ↑ Raman Sukumar at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  3. ↑ "International Cosmos Prize" (PDF). Current Science. Indian Academy of Sciences. 91 (6): 739. 25 September 2006. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
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