Mysore Doreswamy Madhusudan

M D Madhusudan
ಮೈಸೂರು ದೊರೆಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಮಧುಸೂದನ
M. D. Madhusudan, in 2009.
Born
NationalityIndian
Alma materYuvaraja College, Mysore
Known forHuman-wildlife conflict, discovery of Arunachal macaque[1]
AwardsWhitley Award
Scientific career
FieldsWildlife Conservation, Conservation Biology, Ecology
InstitutionsNature Conservation Foundation
Doctoral advisorAnindya Sinha

Mysore Doreswamy Madhusudan (Kannada: ಮೈಸೂರು ದೊರೆಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಮಧುಸೂದನ) is an Indian wildlife biologist[2] and ecologist.[3] He is the Co-founder and Director of Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore[4] and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds.[5] He has worked on understanding and mitigating the effects of human-wildlife conflict in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in South India. He has also worked in several other forests in the Himalayas and North-east India. In 2004, he was one among the team of wildlife biologists who described Arunachal macaque, a new species of macaque from Arunachal Pradesh, India.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Scientists find new Indian monkey" from BBC online
  2. ^ Whitley Award for Mysore-based wildlife biologist. The Hindu. 14 May 2009. LINK
  3. ^ Why Bandipur's farmers switched to selling dung. Article by Nitin Sethi on Down To Earth LINK Archived 26 December 2004 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Meet the TEDIndia Fellows". TED Fellows. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  5. ^ Profile on UoL Website LINK