Eric Dinerstein

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Eric Dinerstein (born December 19, 1952 ) is an American conservationist and non-fiction author.

Life

In 1979 Dinerstein received a Master of Science degree from the University of Washington . In 1983 he was at the same university with a thesis on Reproductive ecology of fruit bats and seasonality of fruit production in a Costa Rican cloud forest to the Ph.D. PhD. From May 2012 to February 2014 he was a senior scientist at the US section of the WWF . Since April 2014 he has been head of the Biodiversity and Wildlife solutions program at the World Resources Institute (WRI).

From 1975 Dinerstein pioneering studies led to the Tiger ratio booty and conservation programs for large mammals, including the rhinoceros by. Together with Eric Wikramanayake he mapped tiger sanctuaries. In 2001 he was one of the initiators of the Terai Arc Landscape program of WWF Nepal, in which 14 national parks in the Terai lowlands in India and Nepal have merged to form cross-border protected areas on an area of ​​5 million hectares. The beneficiaries of these protected areas are endangered animal species, including the king tiger , the Sarus crane , the Asian elephant , the axis deer , the bristle rabbit , the Indian rhinoceros, the collar bear and over 500 species of birds. In November 2010 he was one of the initiators of a global tiger summit, which pursued the goal of doubling the tiger population.

Dinerstein was involved in the creation of conservation plans for several locations, including the Galapagos Islands , the Chihuahua Desert , the Himalayas , the panda reserves in the mountains of China and the northern Great Plains in Montana . He has conservation experience in many countries and has published books on conservation topics, including rhinos and tigers. In 2011 he wrote the chapter on the rhinoceros family in the second volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World . His first novel What Elephants know was published in 2016 .

Awards

In 2007, Dinerstein received the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Award and the AAAS / Subaru SB&F Prize for excellent science books for his book Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations .

Fonts (selection)

  • A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank (Washington, DC), 1995
  • Global 200 Ecoregions, World Wildlife Fund (Washington, DC), 1997
  • The Return of the Unicorns: The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 2003
  • Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations, Island Press (Washington, DC), 2005
  • Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment, Island Press (Washington, DC), 2005
  • The Kingdom of Rarities, Island Press (Washington, DC), 2013
  • Discovering Big Cat Country: On the trail of tigers and snow leopards, Island Press (Washington, DC), 2013
  • What Elephants know, Disney-Hyperion, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Dinerstein, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conservationist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1952