Members 2005-2008

 

Asia

 

 

Bangladesh

Ali REZA, member since 2004

 

I started my career in tiger research with IUCN-Bangladesh back in 1998. Working on the Sundarbans tiger ecology as my MSc dissertation, I published my first book on the tiger in 2004. Other than my tiger book published by IUCN, I authored several scientific papers in peer reviewed journals. I have professional experience to work with IUCN for more than two years. Currently, I hold an Assistant Professor position in Zoology Dept of Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. I started my PhD in 2005 at Texas Tech University, USA with focusing my research in Bangladesh. Other than tiger study, I have keen interest on the herpetofauna of Bangladesh.

 

Department of Zoology, Jahangirnagar University, Savar Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh

e-Mail: wild_reza(a)yahoo.com

T ++880 (2) 770-8478-85, F ++880 (2) 770-8069

 

 

 

 

Monirul KHAN, member since 2005

 

I am a wildlife biologist working on the tiger and other wild animals of Bangladesh. He started working on the ecology and conservation of tigers in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh from the year 2000 as his PhD project from the University of Cambridge, UK. As a continuation of his work, now he is working on the estimation of tiger density and trying to reduce tiger-human conflict. Dr Khan is also involved with a few other wildlife projects in Bangladesh. Professionally, he is a Lecturer of Zoology in Jahangirnagar University of Bangladesh. Dr Khan is also a keen wildlife photographer.

 

 

Department of Zoology, Jahangirnagar University, Savar Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh

e-Mail: mmhkhan(a)hotmail.com

T ++880 (2) 770-8478 ext 1329, F ++880 (2) 770-8069

 

 

 

China

 

Ablimit ABDUKADIR, member since 1990

I graduated from the Faculty of Biology at Xinjiang University in 1977. I have been working at the Department of Zoology, Xinjiang Institute of Biology, Pedology and Desert Research of the Xinjiang University 1981-1995. I then studied English and French in Urumqi and Beijing and spent a year at the University of Lausanne and Berne, Switzerland, in 1997/1998. Since then I have been working for the Department of Biological Resources, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Science. I have been involved in a study on the status of the five cat species in Xinjiang (snow leopard, lynx, manul, Chinese mountain cat, wildcat) and a conservation study on the wildcat and the manul. 

 

 

 

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xinjiang Inst. of Ecology and Geography, No. 40-3, Beijing South Road, Urumqi 830011, China

e-Mail: ablmt(a)ms.xjb.ac.cn

T ++86 (991) 788-5366, F ++86 (991) 788-320

 

 

 

 

Endi ZHANG, member since 1999

 

Vice Mayor, Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Government  since 2003; Professor, Shool of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai since 2000; Member, Scientific Committee of Endangered Species of China since 1999.

Conservation of Biodiversity in Southeast Tibet: Survey, training and reserve planning. Siberian tiger project in Northeast China. Public Awareness Campaign on tiger conservation. Ecological study on the Chinese water deer. Conservation of the endangered wildlife species used in traditional Chinese Medicine.

 

 

East China Normal University, School of Life Sciences, ECNU, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, China

e-Mail: edzhang(a)bio.ecnu.edu.cn

T ++86 (21) 2828-2297, F ++86 (21) 5831-1996

 

 

 

India

Vidya ATHREYA, member since 2006

I have been involved in various aspects of the human-leopard conflict issue – basic research, capacity building of the Forest Department and addressing policy related to conflict. Most of my work has been in the western state of Maharashtra, India. Eventually I hope to address the human-leopard conflict issue at a national level, via policy guidelines. I also was a member of the team that surveyed potential sites for the re-introduction of the Asiatic Lion and I also conducted a survey for the Clouded leopard in north-east India. I obtained a Masters degree in Biology from the University of Iowa, USA. I am currently involved in a project that will use DNA to identify individual leopards following conflict incidents.

 

Kaati Trust, D-3, Raanwara, Bavdhan, Pune 411021, Maharashtra

India

e-Mail: kaati@dataone.in

T ++91 (020) 2295-2596

 

 

 

 

Yash Veer BHATNAGAR, member since 1998

I have been involved in conservation of snow leopard and prey species in the Himalayan regions of India for over 14 years, particularly with formulating and implementing programs for the conservation of snow leopard and prey species as part of my work with the International Snow Leopard Trust in the past three years. I have been supervising studies on snow leopard – people conflicts, snow leopard diet and conflict mitigation strategies and have been training people in snow leopard monitoring techniques. Over the past few years we have been discusssing with stakeholders the develoment of a national strategy and action plan for the conservation of the Indian high altitudes keeping the snow leopard as a flagship species.

 

Nature Conservation Foundation, 3076/5, IV Cross, Gokulam Park

Mysore 570 002, Karnataka, India

e-Mail: yash(a)ncf-india.org

T ++91 (821) 251-5601, F +91-821-25138221

 

 

 

 

Divyabhanusinh CHAVDA, member since 1993

 

My experience with cat species is with Asiatic lions in Gir Forest, Gujarat India, and tigers in Rajasthan, India. As WWF-India’s Trustee, V.P. and Treasuerer and as member of the Wildlife Advisory Board, Government of Rajasthan, India, I am involved with their conservation activities including cat species. I have also worked on the history of the cheetah leading to its extinction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Suryodaya", 310 Gom Defence Colony, Vaishali Marg,
Jaipur 302 021, India

e-Mail: sawaj_cheetah(a)rediffmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

Anwaruddin CHOUDHURY

 

Ph.D. in 1989. Involved in wildlife survey and  conservation for the last two and half decades in northeastern India and also Bhutan. Positions held included Deputy Secretary and Joint Secretary in the Environment & Forest Dep., government of Assam. Now Deputy Commissioner, Baksa district where the famous Manas Tiger reserve is located. Founder Chief Executive of the The Rhino Foundation for Nature in NE India (NGO) since 1985. Member of the State Board for Wildlife, the highest policy-making official body in Assam. Many publications, books, monographs and unpublished survey reports. These surveys covered many important cat habitats in the region.

 

The Rhino Foundation for Nature in NE India, c/o Assam Co. Ltd

Bamunimaidam, Guwahati, Assam  781 021, India

e-Mail: badru1(a)sify.com

T ++91-3624-282-769, F ++91-3624-282-769

 

 

 

 

 

Raghunandan CHUNDAWAT, member since 1994

 

I started my career as a conservation biologist twenty years ago with pioneering research on the ecology of snow leopard and its prey species in the Ladakh mountains as part of my Ph. D. degree. Since then I have been involved intimately in the conservation of wildlife of high altitudes in the Himalayan and recently the central Asian mountains. For ten years I was a member of the teaching faculty of India’s premier research and training institute, the Wildlife Institute of India. I am very closely involved with tiger conservation and recently completed a ten-year study on ecology of tiger and its major prey in the Dry Forests of Panna National Park in central India.

 

Science and Conservation Director ISLT, S-17, Panchsheel Apts.

A-1 Block Panchsheel Enclave, New Delhi 110 017, India

e-Mail: raghu4baavan(a)yahoo.co.in

Phone: ++91 (11) 55646652

 

 

 

 

A.J.T. JOHNSINGH

 

I initiated pioneering field research on free-ranging large mammals in India by studying dholes (Cuon alpinus) in Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka in 1976-78 for my Ph.D. One of the key findings of this study was resource partitioning among dholes, leopard (Panthera pardus) and tiger (P. tigris). I have guided a Ph.D student to study Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) in Gir forest, was part of a team which identified a potential second home for Asiatic lion in Central India and have led a team which surveyed the tiger habitats in the foot-hills of Himalaya and came up with a vision document for saving the tiger in this important landscape.

 

 

101 Magnolia, Esteem Gardenia,

Sahakara Nagar, Bangalore-92, India

e-Mail: ajt.johnsingh(a)gmail.com

 

 

 

 

K. Ullas KARANTH, member since 1987

 

I am a Senior Conservation Scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, New York and the Technical Director of the WCS Tiger Conservation Program. I have conducted extensive long-term studies on the ecology of tigers and other large mammals in India and published my findings in several prestigious international scientific journals. I have authored the books The Way of the Tiger and A View from the Machan and co-edited the technical manual Monitoring Tigers and their Prey.  I am a Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota, USA, and Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India.  I also serve as a scientific advisor to several conservation advocacy groups in India.

 

Wildlife Conservation Soc. India, Centre for Wildlife Studies, 823, 13th Cross, Jayanagar 7th Block West, Bangalore 560 042, India

e-Mail: ukaranth(a)wcs.org, T ++91 (80) 2671-5364, F 2671-5255

 

 

 

 

Jamal Ahmad KHAN

 

I was awarded Ph.D. degree in Wildlife Science by the Aligarh Muslim University for my work on major prey species of Asiatic Lion in the Gir National Park, Gujarat in 1993. I am currently serving as Associate Professor at the Department of Wildlife Sciences, A.M.U. and am also the Secretary, Wildlife Society of India for the consecutive 3rd terms (2002-2007). I have implemented conservations projects all over India and in Yemen Republic on endangered species and threatened ecosystems. Currently I am working on tiger-human conflict in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, ecology of leopard and hyena in Gir National Park. I am committed to conservation of large Cats in India.

 

Conservation Monitoring Centre, Dept. of Wildlife Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India

e-Mail: wsi(a)sancharnet.in

T ++91 (571) 270-1052, F ++91 (571) 270-1205

 

 

 

 

Ashok KUMAR, member since 1993

 

I have been associated with conservation of cat species, especially tiger and leopard, for three and half decades. My area of work has been wildlife policy and law issues of cat conservations, wildlife trade studies and control. I have served as a consultant on wildlife to the Indian government and have been an Hon’ wildlife warden of Delhi for a decade. My association with Tibetan Conservation Awareness Campaign has resulted in a significant outcome of curtailing demand for tiger and leopard skins in Tibet. I have written a large number of articles on wildlife conservation and co-authored other publications. Served on the Steering Committee of SSC for one term. I am equally interested in conservation issues of elephants and have been a member of Elephant SG.

 

Wildlife Trust of India, A-220, New Friends Colony, New Delhi-65

India; e-Mail: ashok(a)wti.org.in

Phone: ++91 (11) 2632-6025, 6026

 

 

 

 

Shomita MUKHERJEE, member since 1995

 

My chief interst lies in the ecology of small cats. I have studied the jungle cat, fishing cat, caracal and rusty-spotted cat in varying degrees. Most of my field experience has been in the western arid/semi-arid parts of Inida. In the laboratory I standardized techniques to study large-carnivore diet and looked at global body-size variation in jungle cats through skull morphometry. Currently I am exploring the utility of non-invasive DNA analysis to study small-carnivore ecology and phylogepgraphy. I am also involved in a project that aims to create a DNA database for leopards in Mumbai to help managers resolve human-lepopard conflict.

 

Kismet, Flat NO.9, 48 Carter Road, Bandra, Mumbai 400 050, India

e-Mail: shomitam(a)gmail.com

T+91 80 23636421, F 91 80 2363 6662

 

 

 

 

 

G. Viswanatha REDDY, member since 1998

I am a  Member of the  Indian Forest Service, working with the Government of India, as mid level officer, in the Province Rajastha, India. My professional interest is to use science as basis ( adaptive management) for the management of forests and wildlife in India. Additionally, I am  currently pursuing a Ph. D. post graduate education in forestry, Botany and I have a diploma in wildlife management. I managed the world’s well known “ Ranthambhore Tiger reserve” for six years from 1997-2003. I have actively been involved in managing forests for the last 20 years. With this experience I am well versed with management of protected forest reserves of India. Good in participatory rural appraisals, ecodevelopment planning and implementation.

Forest Department, Government of Rajasthan, c/o Principal conservator of forests, Aranya Bhavan, Jaipur 302001, India

e-Mail: gvreddy.rajforests(a)gmail.com

T ++91 (141) 222-7391, F ++91 (141) 222-7832

 

 

 

 

Pranabes SANYAL, member since 1986

 

I got my PhD in Mangrove ecology from Jadavpur University, India. I am retired from Indian Forest Service as Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Research, Working plan and Monitoring. Government of West Bengal. I have been working for 38 years in  Superior Forest Service in the following capacities: Management of  Protected Area , Field Director of Sundarban Tiger Reserve  for 6 years and  Field Director of Buxa Tiger Reserve for one and half years. I am currently working as a Visiting Faculty, Jadavpur University. Additionally, I am the presiden of the Calcutta Wildlife Society.

 

 

 

Calcutta Wildlife Society, 57/D, Purnadas Road, Calcutta 700029, India

e-Mail: pranabes(a)hotmail.com

T, F ++91 (33) 2414-4262

 

 

 

 

 

Hari H. SINGH, member since 2003

 

Ph.D. Thesis on “Impact of Management on Biodiversity of Some of the Protected Areas in Gujarat State” from Saurashtra University. While serving in the Forest Department I worked for conservation of wild cats - Asiatic lion, leopard, jungle cat and caracal. Worked as Conservator of Forests in Gir National Park where I prepared first management plan for the park and designed plan for long term conservation of Asiatic lion in Gir. Presently I am Chief Conservator of Forests at the Forest Research Institute in Gandhinagar. Research activities are related to forests, wildlife and biodiversity, including coordination of research work at different centres in Gujarat State.

 

Chief Conservator of Forests, Gujarat State, Forest Res. Institute, Sector-30, Opp. Akshardham, Gandhinagar 382020, Gujarat, India

e-Mail: hss.ifs@gmail.com

T ++91 (79) 232 59300, F ++91 (79) 232 56603

 

 

 

 

Valmik THAPAR, member since 1990

 

 I have graduated from Delhi University in Social Anthropology in 1972. Until 1980, I have worked as a free lance photographer and film maker. Since 1976 I have been working with tigers in Ranthambore National Park, dcoumenting, photographing and writing their natural history, and working on the ways to resolve both the crisis of the tiger and the natural heritage of India. I am a member of the National Board of Wildlife, MoEF, Government of India.

 

 

 

 

 

19 Kautilya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110 021, India

e-Mail: tiger(a)vsnl.com

T ++91 (23) 016-261, F ++91 (23) 019-457

 

 

 

 

Belinda WRIGHT, member since 1996

 

As tiger conservationist and wildlife campaigner, I am the Founder and Executive Director of the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI). I have pioneered investigations into the illegal wildlife trade in the Indian Subcontinent, helped expose the trade in tiger parts, and have been instrumental in the arrest of hundreds of wildlife criminals. In 2005, I helped reveal the magnitude of the big cat skin trade in Tibet. Before turning to full time conservation work in 1994, I was a wildlife photographer and documentary filmmaker. I was awarded the O.B.E. in 2003 for “services to the protection of wildlife and endangered species in India”.

 

 

Wildlife Protection Society of India, S-25 Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110 017, India

e-Mail: bwright(a)vsnl.net

T ++91 (11) 4163-5920; F ++91 (11) 4163-5924

 

 

 

 

Anne WRIGHT, member since 1971

 

In 1970 Tiger Task Force, Government of India: Choice of the Tiger Project Reserves, Survey of Manas & Palamau for The Committee. Was instrumental in procuring the Kenya Wildlife Act on which the Wildlife protection Act (1972) is modelled. In 1972 involved in the amendment of the Indian Wildlife Act: Management plans and representations to notify the Sanctuaries in Bihar, North Bengal and the North East (Balpakram Sanctuary in Meghalaya, Manas Tiger reserve, Assam, Palamau Tiger Reserve and Gautam Budha Sanctuary in Bihar, Neora Valley and Buxa Tiger Reserve in North Bengal). Since 1991 Indian citizen.

 

 

 

18, Sultanpur Estate, Mandi Road, Mehrauli, New Delhi 110 030, India

e-Mail: info(a)kiplingcamp.com

Phone: ++91 (11) 5519-6377

 

 

 

 

Charu MISHRA, member since 2005

 

I am one of the founder trustees of India’s Nature Conservation Foundation. I also head the India Program of the International Snow Leopard Trust. I study pastoralism, human impacts on wildlife, ecology of human-wildlife conflicts, large herbivore community ecology, and carnivore ecology. My present work involves setting up community-based conservation and conflict-resolution programs, conducting research and exploration, guiding Ph.D. students, and working with governments to set up wildlife reserves and formulating conservation policy. I have a Ph.D. in Ecology and Natural Resource Conservation from Wageningen University, and a MSc. degree in Wildlife Sciences.

 

Nature Conservation Foundation, 3076/5 IV Cross Gokulam Park,

Mysore 570002, India

e-Mail: charu(a)ncf-india.org

T  ++91 (821) 251-5601, ++91 (821) 251-3822

 

 

 

Indonesia

Sunarto SUNARTO, member since 2008

 

I started to get interested to foucs on cats and conservation in 2004 when I joined WWF Indonesia as a wildlife biologist. Currently I am the survey and monitoring coordinator at WWF. I am also enrolled as a PhD student at Virginia Tech, USA, studying the ecology of Sumatra Tigers in the Riau Landscapes. Previously, I worked for Conservation International, Wildlife Conservation Society as well as ICDP Project. With WCS, I leas a team to build and manage the Way Canguk Research Station in BBS National Park in which study on large mammals, including tigers, was one of the programs.

 

 

 

 

WWF Indonesia - Riau Program, Komplex Perkantoran Grand Sudirman, Blok B-1 IL, Datuk Setia Maharaja, Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia

eMail: s.sunarto@yahoo.com

T ++62-761-7063747, F ++62-761-35323

 

 

 

Japan

 

Teruo DOI

 

I graduated and got Ms of Science from National Kyushu University in 1970, and a Dr of Science from National Kyushu University in 1981. I have been a research assistant professor at Kyushu University from 1970 to 2004, and a Professor of Nagasaki University since 2004. I have conducted field studies on wild mammals, especially on two species of Japanese wild cats, Tsushima and Iriomote cat. I am a Committee member of Japan Mammalogical Society.

 

 

 

 

Faculty of Environmental Studies, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki, 852-8521, Japan

e-Mail: doiteruo(a)net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Phone: ++81 (95) 819-2777

 

 

 

 

 

Masako IZAWA

 

I am working at the University of Ryukyus, studying two subspecies of the leopard cat in Japan: Iriomote cat, Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensis and Tsushima leopard cat, Prionailurus bengalensis euptilura. Although my students and I are studying the ecology of the two subspecies, our research team includes researchers of other Universities studying ecology and genetics, and veterinary aspects. As both cats live on a small island and in small populations (ca. 100 inds. each), we also conduct conservation studies and can advise the national and local government concerned.

 

 

Lab. Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Science, University of  Ryukyus, Nishihara-oho, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan

e-Mail: izawa(a)sci.u-ryukyu.ac.jp

T (98) 895-8541, F ++81 (98) 895-8576

 

 

 

 

 

Ryuichi MASUDA, member since 1996

 

I am working on molecular phylogeny and population genetics of the leopard cat (Felis bengalensis) of Japanese islands (Iriomote and Tsushima Islands) for their conservation. Up to date, I have revealed the phylogenetic status and genetic diversity of the Japanese populations of the leopard cats and developed non-invasive methods of species and gender identification using fecal DNA.

 

 

 

 

 

Department of Genome Dynamics, Creative Research Initiative, "Sousei", Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan

e-Mail: masudary(a)ees.hokudai.ac.jp

Phone: ++81 (11) 706-3588 

 

 

 

Lao PDR

Mark BEZUJIEN, member since 2005

 

I have worked in South-east Asia since 1995 on a variety of conservation and research projects, including biological surveys, protected area management and research, in Indonesia, Malaysia, Viet Nam, Lao PDR and Cambodia. I have conducted research or management on threatened birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibian. In the 1990s, I recorded and published incidental observations of wild Flat-headed Cats in Sumatra. I am currently based in Lao PDR and am involved in biodiversity conservation efforts in the Mekong Basin.

 

 

 

 

 

P.O. Box183, Ferny Creek, 3786 Victoria, Australia

e-Mail: bezuijen(a)ozemail.com.au 

 

 

 

Malaysia

Sivananthan ELAGUPILLAY, member since 1994

 

I am the Director of Institute for Biological Diversity, which was created in 2004 and based at the Krau Wildlife Resrve in the state of Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. I received my Masters from West Virginia University and PhD from University of Idaho in 2005. I have 24 years of service with the DWNP ranging form tiger research, law enforcement, wildlife management and directors of two external funded projects dealing with protected areas. I have written and presented a number of papers related to tigers and protected areas management. I am now directly responsible with the deployment of research staff and training of related DWNP staff at state DWNP level for wildlife research, including tigers.

 

Institute for Biological Diversity, Dep. of Wildlife and National Parks

Bukit Rengit, Lanchang 28500, Malaysia

e-Mail: siva(a)wildlife.gov.my

T ++609-286-1757, F ++603-9075-2873

 

 

 

 

Andrew HEARN, member since 2006

 

I am a research associate with the Global Canopy Programme in Oxford, UK. I have led research teams in Indonesian Borneo, whilst conducting population studies of orang-utans and photo-surveys of carnivores, and have worked as a team member on numerous ecological research projects in the UK, Brunei, Indonesia, and Mexico. Currently, I am co-leading a conservation project in Sabah, which is focusing on the five species of wild cat that inhabit the forests of Borneo: clouded leopard, marbled cat, bay cat, flat-headed cat and leopard cat. This multi-disciplinary project will merge pioneering ecological research, host-country scientist training and environmental education.

 

 

Danum Valley Field Centre, P.O.Box 60282, 91112 Lahad Datu,

Sabah, Malaysia

e-Mail: ajhearn_@hotmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

Kae KAWANISHI, member since 1999

I received PhD from the University of Florida in 2002, studying population status of tigers in Taman Negara National Park in Peninsular Malaysia using camera-trapping technique in the mark-recapture framework. Currently I am the Technical Advisor to the Tiger Unit of the Government of Malaysia. I have helped the Wildlife Department 1) determine the tiger landscape and roughly estimate the potential population size of the Malayan tiger; 2) establish Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers (MYCAT) to improve communication and collaboration among the governmental and non-governmental conservation partners; 3) initiate a community outreach program for Taman Negara; and 4) raise funds to enhance existing programs, including state tiger units.

 

UF-Malaysia Tiger Project, 34 Jalan BJ4, Taman Bukit Jaya

Ampang, Selangor 68000, Malaysia

e-Mail: kae2000(a)tm.net.my

T ++603-9075-2872, F ++603-9075-2873

 

 

 

 

Mohd KHAN bin MOMIN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Malaysian Rhino Foundation (MRF), No. 10,  Jalan Bomoh

Off Jalan Keramat Hujong, Kuala Lumpur 54000, Malaysia

e-Mail: mohdkhan(a)mail.com

T ++60 (3) 4257-2693; F ++60 (3) 4257-0721

 

 

 

Mongolia

Bariushaa MUNKHTSOG, member since 1996

 

I was born in Uvs province, western Mongolia. Have a BC and MS from Biology faculty of the National University of Mongolia. I have experience in research and conservation of endangered wildlife such as Przewalski horses, snow leopards, ibex, wild cat and pallas cats. Working with snow leopards since 1994. In 2001 established NGO, named Irbis (Snow leopard) Mongolian Center, to support research and conservation of cats in Mongolia. In 2000 together with Meredith Brown initiated first ever field study of the Pallas cats. The project has a field camp and research is underway. Currently work as Wildlife biologist at the Mammalian ecology laboratory of Biology institute of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and Science Leader –Program Director of International Snow Leopard Trust in Mongolia.

 

P. O. Box 415 UB-38, Mongolia,

e-Mail: isltmon(a)magicnet.mn

 

 

 

 

Steven ROSS, member since 2005

 

Previously I worked in wildlife conservation in Alaska, Zimbabwe and Botswana, concerning issues of critical habitat and wildlife ecotourism. I first became involved with cats in Botswana, carrying out monitoring and behavioral research on lions before moving to Mongolia to initiate research on Pallas cats, where I am currently based. Consistent through my work are themes of spatial ecology for conservation purposes. I employ Distance techniques, sign and trapping to understand prey and sympatric carnivore densities and interview to understand the human issues in conservation. GIS forms a large part of my work, helping to glue the data together.  

 

 

415, UB-38, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

e-Mail: steveross101(a)yahoo.co.uk

T ++976 (11) 329-632

 

 

 

Nepal

Charles W. McDOUGAL, member since 1984

 

I was born at Colorado Springs, CO, USA. In 1963 I received a Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, USA. In 1972 I was employed at Tiger Tops, Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP), Nepal

From 1972-79 I conducted tiger research at RCNP. From 1980 to the present I have conducted a long-term tiger monitoring project at RCNP as a Research Associate of the National Zoo, Smithsonian Institution. Between 1996 and 2004 I served on seven occasions as a WWF consultant to the Tiger Conservation Program of the Nature Conservation Division, Royal Government of Bhutan.

 

 

 

Tiger Tops, P.O. Box 242, Kathmandu, Nepal