Member since 1987.
K. Ullas Karanth, is the Emeritus Director at the Centre for Wildlife Studies, which he established in 1984. Dr. Karanth has conducted long-term research on the ecology of tigers and prey species, published over 150 scientific articles and authored ten English and four Kannada book . In recognition of his contributions to wildlife conservation he has been elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and received the World Wildlife Funds’s J. Paul Getty award, WCS George Schaller Award, Karnataka State's Rajya Prashashti, the National Honor Padma Shri and has been recognized as a distinguished Alumnus of the University of Florida, USA.