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Obituary: Pralad Yonzon

It was with shock and regret that I heard of the untimely death a preliminary study of Red Pandas in Bhutan. However, as time- of Dr Pralad Yonzon who was killed in Kathmandu on Monday progressed, his interests expanded to encompass more general 31 October 2011 when a truck ran into his bicycle as he was- conservation. In 1986 he founded Resources Himalaya, a Nepa making his way home from work. workslese knowledge-based towards promoting organisation livelihoods dedicated of the mountain to conservation peoples. of Although I only met Ailurus Dr Yonzon fulgens on , threeand his or dedication four occa natural resources, which gradually evolved into an NGO that also sions, I was always impressed by his knowledge of wildlife, in particular the In 2002, Dr Yonzon received the Order of the Golden Ark to conservation in his homeland. The first time I met Pralad, from UntilPrince his Bernhard death, Dr of Yonzon the Netherlands continued forhis hiswork services promot to- he was still a student, writing up his PhD thesis on the Red conservation in Nepal, Bhutan and Vietnam. Pandas of Langtang National Park under the supervision of Dr to follow in his footsteps, while never forgetting his love of the Malcolm Hunter of the University of Maine. He was attending ing conservation and inspiring and mentoring young people a Red Panda Conference in Rotterdam where he presented one of the first papers on his Redfulgens Panda work. This was one of the Red Panda. He will be sorely missed by conservationists and first of the modern studies of Red Panda ecology in general lovers of the Himalayas everywhere. Our thoughts go out to and the very first on the subspecies: as such it was his family at this tragic time. ground-breaking work. Dr Yonzon continued his work on Red Pandas, including Angela GLATSTON

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