Raman Sukumar

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.

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.{{Britannica|914973|Raman Sukumar}} 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|date=June 2017}} He continues to pursue conservation-based scientific research as an honorary professor at this center{{Cite web |title=Raman Sukumar |url=https://ces.iisc.ac.in/?q=user/28 |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=ces.iisc.ac.in |language=en}} and is often called upon to represent Indian wildlife scientists in international, national, and regional governmental committees.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

In 2006, he was awarded the International Cosmos Prize, Japan, the first Indian to receive this award.{{cite journal |author= |title=International Cosmos Prize |date=25 September 2006 |journal=Current Science |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |volume=91 |issue=6 |page=739 |url=http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_091_06_0739_0739_0.pdf |format=PDF |accessdate=24 September 2009}} 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|date=June 2017}}

• 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

• The Asian Elephant: Ecology and Management (1989, Cambridge Univ. Press){{Cite book |last=Raman Sukumar |url=http://archive.org/details/asianelephanteco00suku |title=The Asian Elephant |date=1990-01-26 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-36080-7}}
• Elephant Days and Nights: Ten years with the Indian Elephant (1994, Oxford Univ. Press){{Cite book |last=Sukumar |first=Raman |url=http://archive.org/details/elephantdaysnigh0000suku |title=Elephant days and nights : ten years with the indian elephant |date=1996 |publisher=Dehli; New York : Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-563821-9}}
• The Living Elephants: Evolutionary Ecology, Behavior and Conservation (2003, Oxford Univ. Press){{Cite book |last=Raman Sukumar |url=http://archive.org/details/livingelephantse00suku_0 |title=The Living Elephants |date=2003-08-14 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-510778-4}}
• The Story of Asia's Elephants (2011, Marg Publishers){{Cite book |last=Sukumar |first=R. (Raman) |url=http://archive.org/details/storyofasiaselep0000suku |title=The story of Asia's elephants |date=2011 |publisher=Mumbai : The Marg Foundation |isbn=978-93-80581-10-1}}

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