Padma Shri award for Environmentalist

[Swathi]

FYI

We are proud to announce that Dr. Kota Ullas Karanth has been awarded India's fourth highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri, for the year 2012 http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx - Padma Awards Announced

 

This prestigious award is conferred on distinguished individuals by the President of India. Dr. Karanth has received this award for his outstanding contribution to Wildlife Conservation and Environment Protection.

 

Dr. Ullas Karanth has conducted ground breaking research on the ecology of tigers and other large mammals. He was the first person to conduct radio-telemetry of tigers in India. Dr. Karanth founded the Centre for Wildlife Studies and is a senior scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, since 1988. He has published over 135 international peer-reviewed scientific papers and popular articles, and authored seven books in English and Kannada.

 

He serves on the Indian Government's Forest Advisory Committee, National Tiger Conservation Authority and Karnataka Government's Tiger Conservation Foundation and Tiger Steering Committees. Dr. Karanth is past Vice-President of the Bombay Natural History Society and a Scientific Advisor to several conservation advocacy groups in India. His work has been extensively featured in world’s media including Nature, New York Times, National Geographic, BBC, CNN and Discovery.

 

Dr.Karanth’s contribution to wildlife conservation has been recognized through several prestigious awards: the Sierra Club’s International EarthCare award (2006); World Wildlife Fund’s J. Paul Getty Award (2007) and the Bombay Natural History Society's Salim Ali National Award for Conservation (2008) and was also elected a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2008. He received the Karnataka Government’s Rajyothsava Award in 2011.

 

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[Dr Pawan Kumar Bharti Chauhan]

Its a real reward of Dr. Karanth's contribution to the Environment and Wildlife conservation.
Congrats...Dr. Karanth.

[Dr Pawan Kumar Bharti Chauhan]

Its a real reward of Dr. Karanth's contribution to the Environment and Wildlife conservation.
Congrats...Dr. Karanth.

[Unnikrishnan]

Congrats to Dr. Karanth. This will be a motivation for the persons involved in the feild of conservation and Environment

[Jadhav Nilambari Chandrakant]

Hearty congrats to dr. Karanth.

[Narayana Rao Mushti]

Congratulations to Dr Karanth.This gesture is an inspiration to our young environmental researchers.

[GOPI KANTA GHOSH]

Great to know

[Vagish Sharma]

 Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) and Jagurih Group are organizing International Round-table workshop on "Clean-technology and India's Vision" . The major themes of the workshop are Sol

ar energy, Energy Efficiency, Building Efficiency / Green Building , Solar cells space technology and Biomass. The Workshop has been slated on September 7th, 2012 at Paharpur Business Center, New Delhi. It's a great opportunity for Students and Youngsters who envisions a career in Energy Management, Environmental Sustainability and Green Economics . This is the first time in India that a round-table workshop is happening with it's major thematic purpose for Solar cell space technology and it's winding applications. 
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Jagurih group and Institute of Green Economy (IGES ) declared the last date for registration to "International Round-table workshop on Clean technology & India's Vision" as August 22, 2012 by 5:30 pm . I do hope that most of you are coming 

to attend the workshop and must discuss the ideas you have in respect to India's energy crisis as well the solution . 

Ideas shared by the speakers and participants will be documented and most innovative ideas will be developed in form of enforced policy and shall be presented to Government of India (GOI) in favor of your name to develop concrete and impact-full solution to the Energy Security , Management and Environmental Sustainability sector, as currently this sector is under huge crisis, with very less concern by Indian government, diplomats and public industries.