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Biographie de George B. Schaller

George B. Schaller is a field biologist who has studied wildlife in North and South America, Africa and Asia. Naturalist, conservationist and author, he is well known for his pioneering studies of gorillas in the Congo, lions in Tanzania and tigers in India. He and his wife became the first Westerners to be invited by China to collaborate in a study of giant pandas. Continuing his work in China, he spent many months on the Tibetan plateau with special attention to the conservation of the Tibetan antelope, or chiru, which is illegally hunted for its fine wool. George SchallerÕs honours include the World Wildlife FundÕs gold medal for ÔContributions to the understanding and conservation of endangered speciesÕ, the International Cosmos Prize from Japan, the Baogang Environment Prize from China, and the Salim Ali Environment Prize from India.
His book The Serengeti Lion received the National Book Award in the United States. He is vice president of Panthera, an organization devoted to the conservation of wild cats, and senior conservationist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York. His home in the state of Connecticut is near New York, but he can usually be found in some remote corner of the world studying and trying to help protect some rare and elusive animal and its habitat.