Mr. H.S. Panwar
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Mr. H.S. Panwar
Former Director (Wildlife Institute of India) Phone : +91 124 4086989 |
| Mr. H.S. Panwar has made outstanding contribution to protected areas planning and management including research and capacity enhancement in India for over 40 years. As an Indian Forest Service officer, he served as the Director of the Kanha National Park and pioneered the innovative management of the park which was adjudged as the best managed protected area of the country in 1976. Subsequently, as Director Project Tiger, he established this as one of the world's leading conservation projects.
From 1985 to 1994, he was the Director of the Wildlife Institute of India and was responsible for the formulation and implementation of a variety of wildlife science education and research programmes and initiated WII into EIA of development projects. From 1994 to 1998 he was the Chief Technical Advisor to UNDP-GEF Project for Capacity Building of the Department of Wildlife Conservation, Sri Lanka. He is the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi National Wildlife Conservation Award. He is also the only Indian to have received WWF-International’s prestigious Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Gold Medal (2002). He has been part of numerous projects and high powered committees including those on environmental clearance of development projects. He was a member of the Prime Minister’s Tiger Task Force, 2005 and presently is a member of the National Tiger Conservation Authority. |
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Last Updated: February 5, 2013
