Dr. Prithiviraj Fernando

Project Leader, Wildlife Trust Alliance

Dr. Prithiviraj "Pruthu" Fernando, with affiliations at both the Centre for Conservation and Research (Sri Lanka) and the Center for Environmental Research at Columbia University, is a leading expert in the conservation and management of tropical biodiversity.

He has accomplished considerable field experience in Sri Lanka, Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh and India. Pruthu has studied elephants for almost a decade, and has wide experience in radio tracking studies, ecological, behavioral and genetic study of elephants. He is a member of the IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group.