Wildlife Trust Alliance's Dr. Rodrigo A. Medellin Awarded National Conservation Honor by Mexican President Vicente Fox

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Wildlife Trust Alliance's Dr. Rodrigo A. Medellin

Awarded National Conservation Honor

by Mexican President Vicente Fox

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Wildlife Trust Alliance's Dr. Rodrigo A. Medellin

Awarded National Conservation Honor

by Mexican President Vicente Fox

A Leading Mammalogist, Dr. Medellin is Expert in Bat Conservation

and Natural Resource Preservation

PALISADES, NEW YORK, Dec. 1 -/E-Wire/-- Wildlife Trust, the international non-profit organization focused on conservation science and the key relationships between environmental change and wildlife and human health, announced that Dr. Rodrigo A. Medellin, a member of the Wildlife Trust Alliance, has won the 2004 Nature Conservation Award for Academic Research by the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas in Mexico. Mexican President Vicente Fox awarded the honor on November 27, 2004 in Yum Balam, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

An internationally respected mammalogist, Dr. Medellin is Professor of Ecology at the University of Mexico. He is President of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Mammalogists, and serves on a task force of the Millenium Project of the United Nations, addressing the preservation of natural resources.

Dr. Medellin is also Director of the Program for Conservation of Bats in Mexico, and is an advisor to the Mexican government on wildlife issues.

In making the announcement, Dr. Mary C. Pearl, President of Wildlife Trust, said, "Rodrigo has been on the forefront of wildlife conservation in Mexico for 25 years, and is an expert in bat ecology and conservation. We are delighted that his work has been honored at the highest level in Mexico, and very proud that he is a part of the Wildlife Trust Alliance."

The Wildlife Trust Alliance is an international network of leaders in conservation science and preeminent conservation organizations, and is housed within Wildlife Trust. The Alliance presented its Conservation Platform at the World Conservation Congress held in Bangkok, Thailand in November of 2004.

About Wildlife Trust

Wildlife Trust is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to innovative conservation science and conservation medicine, linking ecology and human health in the New York region and around the world. Wildlife Trust trains and supports a network of local scientists in over twenty countries in their efforts to save endangered species and their habitats and to protect the health of ecosystems that are vital to life on Earth. More information can be found on their website, www.wildlifetrust.org.

For more information, or to speak with Dr.Rodrigo Medellin or Dr. Mary C. Pearl, please contact Jane Trombley of Temin and Company at (212) 588-8788 or [REDACTED-EMAIL]

Dr.Rodrigo Medellin or Dr. Mary C. Pearl, please contact Jane Trombley of Temin and Company at (212) 588-8788 or [REDACTED-EMAIL]

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