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Top conservation award for University of Kent academic

November 12, 2003

University of Kent academic, Dr Richard Bodmer, has been given the Presidential Award for 2003 by the Chicago Zoological Society. Dr Bodmer is Reader in Conservation Ecology in the University's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) based in the Department of Anthropology. The Award has been made in recognition of his 'personal work on the sustainable use of natural resources by communities throughout South America.'

This is the second time Richard Bodmer has received this prestigious award from one of the world's premier zoological societies. According to Professor Nigel Leader-Williams, Director of DICE, 'This is richly deserved and will be widely applauded by Dr Bodmer's colleagues and students in DICE and the Department of Anthropology, as well as by all conservationists working in South America.'

Dr Bodmer first received the Presidential Award in 1996 for his earlier work on the conservation of wildlife in South America. He was also recently awarded an honorary degree by the National University of the Peruvian Amazon (UNAP) for his contributions to the ecology and conservation of Amazonian mammals.

Richard Bodmer joined DICE in 2000. His main research centres on promoting the sustainable use of wildlife in Peru's Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Communal Reserve and Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, where he has worked with local communities in a participatory framework. Since 2000, Dr Bodmer has expanded the number of research areas in which he works to include the Pantanal in Brazil and numerous Amazonian sites including the Pastaza River. His research has been widely published in both English and Spanish and he is involved in organising the Latin American Wildlife Conferences, which enable the most up-to-date research in wildlife management to influence conservation practice in Latin America.

Dr Bodmer's most recent book People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America will be published by Columbia University Press in 2004. He also convenes the unique DICE BSc in Biodiversity Conservation and Management.

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