Raman Sukumar is an India

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n ecologist

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 known for his work on the ecology of the Asian Elephant

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 and human wildlife conflict

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. He also works on climate change

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. He was born in India

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 in 1955. In 2006, he was awarded the International Cosmos Prize

International Cosmos Prize

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, the first Indian to get this award.

He got his BS

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 from the University of Madras

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 in 1977 and did a Masters in Botany

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 from the same university. He obtained a PhD

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 from the Indian Institute of Science

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 in 1985. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1991 and is presently a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science in the Centre for Ecological Sciences.

Awards

• 1991 Presidential Award of the Chicago Zoological Society
• 2003 Whitley Gold Award for International Nature Conservation
• 2004 T.N.Khoshoo Memorial Award for Conservation Science, the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, India
• 2006 International Cosmos Prize
  International Cosmos Prize
  The International Cosmos Prize was established in 1993, commemorating Expo 90 in Osaka, Japan.The objective of the prize is to develop the basic concept of Expo 90, "The Harmonious Coexistence between Nature and Mankind."...