Dr. Charudutt Mishra
Founder Trustee and Senior Scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, India, Director of Science and Conservation, Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, USA

About the Speaker:
Dr. Charudutt Mishra is one of the founder Trustees and a senior
scientist at the Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, which is
dedicated to promoting science-based, socially responsible wildlife
conservation in India. Dr. Mishra is one of the leading figures in the
world associated with conservation of the endangered snow leaopard. He
is guiding research and conservation efforts focused on the snow
leopard and its habitat in the Himalayas and parts of central Asia
including China, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, and Pakistan. He is also the
Science and Conservation Director of the Snow Leopard Trust in
Seattle, USA. His academic interests lie in pastoralism and resource
use, human impacts on wildlife, ecology of human-wildlife conflicts,
large herbivore community ecology and carnivore ecology. His team
discoverered a new primate species in Arunachal Pradesh in 2003. Dr.
Mishra is a recipient of the Whitley Gold Award in 2005, the Golden
Ark Award in 2008, and the TN Khoshoo Memorial Award in 2009.