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John Seidensticker, Ph.D. Chairman, Save The Tiger Fund Council
 John Seidensticker,
Ph.D. is a senior scientist at the Smithsonian’s National
Zoological Park
in Washington, D.C., and serves as chairman of the
Save The Tiger Fund Council. As a conservation biologist
and senior scientist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological
Park, Dr. Seidensticker's research efforts have focused on understanding
and encouraging landscape patterns and conditions where large mammals
can persist, training future conservation leaders, and diffusing
environmental understanding through his writings, public appearances,
and museum and zoo exhibits.
He has been a member of the
IUCN-World Conservation Cat Specialist Group since 1974, a professional
fellow of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association since 1989, a member
of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Save The Tiger Fund
Council since 1995, and its chairman since 1997.
Dr. Seidensticker has
traveled widely in Asia and served as an ecologist
and park planner for
the Indonesia World Wildlife Fund Program. He has also conducted
fieldwork in the Sundarbans
of Bangladesh and India, in Thailand,
Nepal, and in Sri Lanka. He co-authored The Javan Tiger and the Meru-Betiri
Reserve: A Plan for Management;
Sundarbans Wildlife Management Plan: Conservation in the
Bangladesh Coastal Zone; Saving the Tiger; and co-edited Riding the Tiger:
Tiger Conservation in Human-dominated Landscapes. Most recently, he
co-authored with Susan Lumpkin the Smithsonian Book of Giant Pandas and
Cats: Smithsonian Answer Book.
He pioneered the use of
radio telemetry to study the mountain lion in North
America and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Mountain Lion Social
Organization in the Idaho Primitive Area. As founding principal
investigator of the Smithsonian-Nepal Tiger Ecology Project, he was
co-leader of the team that captured and radiotracked the first wild
tigers in Nepal.
Dr. Seidensticker is author or
editor of more than 160 articles and books, including the widely
acclaimed Great Cats; Dangerous Animals; Tigers; and Cats and Wild Cats.
His avocations include traveling, walking, gardening, and
photography.
He was raised on a cattle
ranch in Montana and studied at the
University of Montana and the University of Idaho, where he
received the 1998 Distinguished Alumni Silver and Gold
Award.
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