Raman Sukumar

Raman Sukumar (born 1955) is an Indian ecologist best known for his work on the ecology of the Asian elephant and human–wildlife conflict. He also works on climate change,^[1]^{[dead link]} and tropical forest ecology.

Early life and education

Raman Sukumar was born in India in 1955. 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.

Career

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 1991, he was a Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University. From 2004–12 he was the Chair at the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science for over eight years.^{[citation needed]} 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]}

Awards

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]}

Awards and fellowships

1991: Presidential Award of the Chicago Zoological Society, USA
1997: Order of the Golden Ark (The Netherlands)
2000: Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
2003: Whitley Gold Award for International Nature Conservation UK
2004: T. N. Khoshoo Memorial Award for Conservation Science, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, India
2005: Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
2006: International Cosmos Prize, Japan
2006: Fellow, Geological Society of India
2013: Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences, Italy

Works

The Asian Elephant: Ecology and Management (1989, Cambridge Univ. Press)^[4]
Elephant Days and Nights: Ten years with the Indian Elephant (1994, Oxford Univ. Press)^[5]
The Living Elephants: Evolutionary Ecology, Behavior and Conservation (2003, Oxford Univ. Press)^[6]
The Story of Asia's Elephants (2011, Marg Publishers)^[7]

References

^ "Website of Raman Sukumar from CES, Indian Institute of Science Website". Retrieved 24 September 2009.
^ Raman Sukumar at the Encyclopædia Britannica
^ "International Cosmos Prize" (PDF). Current Science. 91 (6). Indian Academy of Sciences: 739. 25 September 2006. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
^ Raman Sukumar (26 January 1990). The Asian Elephant. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36080-7.
^ Sukumar, Raman (1996). Elephant days and nights : ten years with the indian elephant. Dehli ; New York : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-563821-9.
^ Raman Sukumar (14 August 2003). The Living Elephants. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-510778-4.
^ Sukumar, R. (Raman) (2011). The story of Asia's elephants. Mumbai : The Marg Foundation. ISBN 978-93-80581-10-1.

[1] "Website of Raman Sukumar from CES, Indian Institute of Science Website". Retrieved 24 September 2009.

[2] Raman Sukumar at the Encyclopædia Britannica

[cscience-3] "International Cosmos Prize" (PDF). Current Science. 91 (6). Indian Academy of Sciences: 739. 25 September 2006. Retrieved 24 September 2009.

[4] Raman Sukumar (26 January 1990). The Asian Elephant. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36080-7.

[5] Sukumar, Raman (1996). Elephant days and nights : ten years with the indian elephant. Dehli ; New York : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-563821-9.

[6] Raman Sukumar (14 August 2003). The Living Elephants. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-510778-4.

[7] Sukumar, R. (Raman) (2011). The story of Asia's elephants. Mumbai : The Marg Foundation. ISBN 978-93-80581-10-1.

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