IFAS alum wins J. Paul Getty award for work with tigers and elephants
A former IFAS Wildlife Ecology and Conservation graduate student has been awarded the 2007 J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership.
Ullas Karanth, who earned his master’s degree in 1988 at UF under Mel Sunquist, now works in India, where he earned his Ph.D. in applied zoology at Mangalore University in 1993.
He has worked toward the conservation of Asian elephants and tigers, helped create three protected land areas in the Western Ghats and done innovative work on voluntary resettlement to benefit both people and wildlife. He is director of the Wildlife Conservation Society-India Program and oversees a post-graduate program in wildlife biology and conservation at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore.
The J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership is given to a single recipient each year and establishes a $200,000 fellowship in the recipient’s name to support conservation-related education and training. He’ll receive the award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. in October.
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