时间：十月十九日，周二，上午十点

地点：动物所A301会议室

报告人：Iain Douglas-Hamilton博士

 

报告人简介

Iain Douglas-Hamilton Ph.D. is recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on elephant conservation. By studying elephants’ movements, Douglas-Hamilton has learned to understand the choices that elephants make and has integrated his findings into important conservation and management strategies. 伊恩-道格拉斯-汉密尔顿博士是大象保护事业全球知名的先锋人物。通过对大象行为的研究，道格拉斯-汉密尔顿博士对大象如何做出选择有了深入的了解，并将他的这些发现有机的与大象保护及管理策略相进行了结合。

Born in Dorset, United Kingdom, Douglas-Hamilton grew up in Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa, but moved to Scotland as a teen. He attended the Gordonstoun School in Scotland from 1955 to 1960 and later earned a bachelor of science and a doctor of philosophy in zoology from Oxford University. 出生于英国Dorset的道格拉斯-汉密尔顿，在南非开普敦的Constantia长大。在他十几岁的时候移居至了苏格兰。1955年至1960年他就学与苏格兰的Gordonstoun学校，随后在牛津大学取得了动物学的学士及博士学位。

During the 1960s, Douglas-Hamilton carried out the first in-depth scientific study of wild elephant social behavior in Tanzania, which paved the way for much of today’s elephant research and current conservation practices. During the 1970s, he investigated the status of elephants throughout Africa and was the first to alert the world to the ivory poaching crisis. In 1979, Douglas-Hamilton led a comprehensive ivory trade study for U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that provided a foundation for subsequent ivory trade monitoring. He chronicled the diminution of Africa’s elephant population by half between 1979 and 1989 and was instrumental in bringing about the world ivory trade ban. 在上世纪60年代，道格拉斯-汉密尔顿博士在坦桑尼亚开展了第一项针对大象社会行为学的深入研究。正是这项研究为当今针对大象的研究及保护奠定了坚实的基础。在随后的十年间，他对整个非洲象群的生存状态进行了调查并第一个向世人发出警告指明象牙偷猎的严重性。1979年道格拉斯-汉密尔顿博士为美国鱼类及野生动物组织进行了一项复杂的有关象牙交易的研究，并为其后的象牙交易监控提供了重要的基础信息。他记录了从1979到1989年间非洲大象的数量减少了一半, 并对国际象牙贸易禁令的提出和实施起了重要的作用。

In 1993, Douglas-Hamilton founded Save the Elephants (STE) in northern Kenya, a nonprofit organization dedicated specifically to elephants. Since that time Save the Elephants has been instrumental in revitalizing African elephant populations as well as increasing public awareness of the many dangers that threaten them and the habitats in which they live. 1993年，道格拉斯-汉密尔顿博士在肯尼亚北部创立了拯救大象组织。这是一个非盈利性组织，专门致力于大象的保护和研究。从那时起，这一组织在振兴非洲大象数量，提高公众对威胁大象多种危险因素的认识和大象的生活习惯的了解。

Fundamental to his work at STE, Douglas-Hamilton pioneered GPS tracking of elephants in Africa, which has become a standard and widely emulated survey technique.  在拯救大象组织里，道格拉斯-汉密尔顿博士在非洲率先使用了全球定位系统对大象进行跟踪，这已成为一个标准的，并被广泛使用的模拟调查手段。

Douglas-Hamilton and his wife, Oria, have co-authored two award-winning books, Among the Elephants (1975) and Battle for the Elephants (1992), and have made numerous television films. Douglas-Hamilton’s many articles for scientific publications have helped shape elephant protection efforts around the world. 道格拉斯-汉密尔顿博士和他的夫人奥里亚共同撰写了两本获奖著作“在象群中”（1975年） 和 “为大象而战”（1992年）。他们还拍摄了许多有关大象的影片。道格拉斯-汉密尔顿博士在科学出版物上发表的许多文章对全球大象保护工作产生了很大帮助。

Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton is the winner of the 2010 Indianapolis Prize. In addition to the Indianapolis Prize, his honors include the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund Award (2006), Dawkins Prize for Conservation and Animal Welfare (2001), Crystal Claw of the Wildlife Documentary Film Festival of France (2001) and the Royal Geographic Society – Mrs. Patrick Ness Award (1974). Douglas-Hamilton has also been awarded the Order of the British Empire (1992) and the Order of the Golden Ark (1988).  道格拉斯-汉米尔顿博士是2010年印第安纳波利斯奖获得者。他获得的奖项还包括迪斯尼野生动物保护基金奖（2006），道金斯保护动物福利奖（2001），水晶爪野生动物纪录片法国电影节奖（2001）， 以及英国皇家地理学会-帕特里克内斯女士奖（1974）。道格拉斯-汉密尔顿博还获得了大英帝国勋章（1992）和金方舟勋章（1988）。

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