Alan Rabinowitz

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Alan Robert Rabinowitz (born December 31, 1953 in Brooklyn , New York - † August 5, 2018 in Manhattan , New York) was an American mammal loge and conservationist . Referred to as Indiana Jones of Wildlife Protection by the New York Times and Time Magazine , he studied jaguars , clouded leopards , Asian leopards , tigers , Sumatran rhinos , bears ,Bengal cats , raccoons and civets .

Life

Rabinowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Shirley and Frank Rabinowitz, but soon moved to Queens, New York. In elementary school he suffered from a severe stutter. Unable to speak to peers and teachers, he became interested in wildlife to communicate with.

In 1974 Rabinowitz earned his bachelor's degrees in biology and chemistry from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College ) in Westminster , Maryland . He graduated with a Master of Science degree in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Tennessee. PhD in ecology .

In 2006, Rabinowitz and Thomas S. Kaplan founded the Panthera Corporation, a non-profit nature conservation organization that is committed to protecting 40 species of wild cats worldwide. Prior to that, he was executive director of the Science and Exploration Division of the Wildlife Conservation Society for almost 30 years.

During an expedition to the Huang Valley in Myanmar in 1997, he discovered four new mammal species, including the Burmese muntjac ( Muntiacus putaoensis ), the smallest species of deer in the world. His work in Myanmar resulted in the creation of five new protected areas, including the country's first marine park: Lampi Island Marine National Park, Myanmar's first and largest Himalayan national park: Hkakaborazi National Park: the largest nature reserve in the country, the Hukaung Valley Wildlife Sanctuary : the largest tiger reserve in the world and one of the largest protected areas in the world; and the Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary, an area that connects the Hukaung Valley and Hkakaborazi National Park into a contiguous sanctuary of more than 5,000 square miles.

Rabinowitz also established the world's first jaguar sanctuary - the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary - in Belize and the Tawu Mountain Nature Reserve , Taiwan's largest sanctuary and the country's last intact lowland rainforest. In Thailand, he led the first field research on Indochinese tigers by, Behind Indian leopards and Bengal cats that the expulsion of Game Reserve Huai Kha Khaeng as UNESCO - World Heritage led.

Among his merits is the design and implementation of the Paseo del Jaguar project , in which a number of biological and genetic corridors for jaguars were established throughout their range from Mexico to Argentina. Rabinowitz also initiated Panthera's Tiger Corridor Initiative, a project to map and protect the world's last remaining large contiguous tiger habitats, with a focus on the remote and rugged Indo-Himalayan region of Asia.

His project to create a zone of protected tiger habitats in the southern Himalayas was the focus of the BBC Natural History Unit's documentary series Lost Land of the Tiger in 2010 . An expedition team spent a month investigating the status of big cats in Bhutan, which led to the rediscovery of tiger populations living in more elevated areas than previously thought.

In November 2017, Rabinowitz resigned as President and CEO of the Panthera Corporation and from then on oversaw the organization's area-wide protection programs with a focus on tigers, lions, jaguars and snow leopards as well as other projects to protect pumas , cheetahs and leopards as chief scientist .

In 2001 Rabinowitz was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia , of the consequences of which he died on August 5, 2018.

Awards

  • 2004: Our Time Theater Company Award
  • 2004: Lowell Thomas Award from the New York Explorer's Club
  • 2005: George Rabb Conservation Award from the Chicago Zoological Society
  • 2005: Flying Elephant Foundation Award
  • 2006: Kaplan Big Cat Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2008: Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Wildlife Film Festival, Chicago
  • 2010: Cincinnati Zoo Wildlife Conservation Award
  • 2011: Jackson Hole Lifetime Achievement Award in Conservation

Publications

  • 1986/2000: Jaguar: One Man's Struggle to Establish the First Jaguar Preserve
  • 1991/2002: Chasing the Dragon's Tail: The Struggle to Save Thailand's Wild Cats
  • 2001: Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness
  • 2005: People and Wildlife: Conflict or Coexistence?
  • 2008: Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed
  • 2014: An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar
  • 2014: A Boy and a Jaguar

Filmography

  • 2010: Lost Land of the Tiger (Narrator)

literature

Web links

Commons : Alan Rabinowitz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Les Line: Alan Rabinowitz: Indiana Jones Meets His Match In: The New York Times, August 3, 1999, accessed August 21, 2020
  2. ^ Bryan Walsh: The Indiana Jones of Wildlife Protection . Time on January 10, 2008, accessed August 21, 2020.
  3. ^ Alan Rabinowitz: Jaguar . Island Press. 2000.
  4. ^ Alan Rabinowitz: Human Factor: Animals saved me . CNN February 22, 2011.
  5. ^ A b Claudia Dreifuß: Zoologist Gives a Voice to Big Cats in the Wilderness . In: The New York Times, December 18, 2007, accessed August 21, 2020.
  6. ↑ a b Steve Winter: Alan Rabinowitz, Ph.D. Chief Scientist . Panthera Corporation. accessed on August 21, 2020.
  7. ^ Matthew Bannister: A life devoted to big cats . BBC World Service, 24-minute interview on Outlook, November 16, 2010
  8. ↑ George Amato, Mary G. Egan and Alan Rabinowitz: A new species of muntjac, Muntiacus putaoensis (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) from northern Myanmar. In: Animal Conservation (1999) 2, 1-7. PDF; 88 kB
  9. ↑ Sharon Guynup: The Jaguar Freeway . Smithsonian Magazine. October 2011. pp. 48-57.
  10. ↑ Panthera.org: Alan Rabinowitz, PhD
  11. ^ Panthera.org: Jaguar Corridor Initiative
  12. ^ Panthera.org: Connecting Tiger Populations into the Future
  13. ^ Matt Walker: Lost tiger population discovered in Bhutan mountains . BBC Earth News, September 20, 2010, accessed August 21, 2020
  14. ↑ Susie Sheppard: Panthera Appoints Dr. Frédéric Launay to Lead the Global Wild Cat Conservation Organization, Succeeding Dr. Alan Rabinowitz As CEO on September 27, 2017, accessed August 21, 2020
  15. ↑ Richard Sandomir: Alan Rabinowitz, Conservationist of Wild Cats, Dies at 64 In: The New York Times, August 8, 2018, accessed August 21, 2020
  16. ↑ Susie Sheppard: Statement on the Life and Legacy of Panthera Founder and Renowned Conservationist, Dr. Alan Rabinowitz on August 6, 2018, accessed August 21, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Rabinowitz, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabinowitz, Alan Robert (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION American mammal loge and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 2018
Place of death Manhattan , New York