Jonah Ratsimbazafy

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Jonah Ratsimbazafy
NationalityMalagasy
Alma materStony Brook University
Scientific career
FieldsPrimatology
Thesis On the brink of extinction and the process of recovery: Responses of black and white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata variegata) to disturbance in Manombo Forest

Jonah Ratsimbazafy is a Malagasy primatologist. In 2020, he was appointed President of the International Primatological Society.

Life and research[edit]

Ratsimbazafy received his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Physical Anthropology in 2002, and afterwards became Training and Conservation Coordinator for Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in Madagascar.[1] He has published over 170 papers and supervised over 65 students, including 20 PhD students.[2] His main field of study is lemur ecology and conservation.[3][4]

Ratsimbazafy is Co-founder and President of the Madagascar Primate Study and Research Group (GERP),[5] Houston Zoo's Director of Madagascar Programs,[6] and Regional Vice-Chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group for Madagascar.[7] He is also one of the advisors of the Lemur Conservation Network[8] and sits on the administrative board of SADABE, an NGO.[9] In 2020, Ratsimbazafy was elected President of the International Primatological Society for a four-year term.[10]

Honours and awards[edit]

In 2015, Ratsimbazafy was awarded Disney's Conservation Hero Award.[11] In 2017, Ratsimbazafy was elected as a member of the African Academy of Sciences.[2] In 2023, he was the recipient of the Seacology Prize, which is awarded annually to individuals with significant achievements in preserving island ecosystems, species, or cultures.[12]

In 2020, a new species of mouse lemur, Microcebus jonahi, was named in honour to Jonah Ratsimbazafy.[13][14]


Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Jonah Ratsimbazafy « NAP Expo 2016". Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  2. ^ a b "Ratsimbazafy Jonah | The AAS". www.aasciences.africa. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  3. ^ Ratsimbazafy, Jonah H.; Arrigo-Nelson, Summer J.; Dollar, Luke; Holmes, Christopher M.; Irwin, Mitchell T.; Johnson, Steig E.; Stevens, Nancy J.; Wright, Patricia C. (2012), Masters, Judith; Gamba, Marco; Génin, Fabien (eds.), "Conservation of Malagasy Prosimians: A View from the Great Red Island", Leaping Ahead, Springer New York, pp. 387–396, doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-4511-1_43, ISBN 978-1-4614-4510-4, retrieved 2020-06-08
  4. ^ Jones, Julia P. G.; Ratsimbazafy, Jonah; Ratsifandrihamanana, Anitry N.; Watson, James E. M.; Andrianandrasana, Herizo T.; Cabeza, Mar; Cinner, Joshua E.; Goodman, Steven M.; Hawkins, Frank; Mittermeier, Russell A.; Rabearisoa, Ando L. (2019). "Last chance for Madagascar's biodiversity" (PDF). Nature Sustainability. 2 (5): 350–352. Bibcode:2019NatSu...2..350J. doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0288-0. ISSN 2398-9629. S2CID 159306389.
  5. ^ "GERP". GERP. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  6. ^ "Saving Lemurs in Madagascar through Empowering the Next Generation of Wildlife Saving Heroes, The Houston Zoo". www.houstonzoo.org. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  7. ^ "Primates-SG - IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group". www.primate-sg.org. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  8. ^ "Our Team". Lemur Conservation Network. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  9. ^ "Sadabe - Team". www.sadabe.org. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  10. ^ "Dr. Jonah Ratsimbazafy elected President of the International Primatology Society". Pat Wright Lab - Stony Brook University. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  11. ^ "Disney Conservation Fund Announces 2015 Conservation Heroes". The Walt Disney Company. 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  12. ^ https://www.seacology.org/2023/08/defender-of-madagascars-threatened-lemurs-to-receive-seacology-prize/
  13. ^ Schüßler et al., 2020.
  14. ^ Poelstra, Salmona, Tiley et al., 2021.

References[edit]

  • Schüßler, D., Blanco, M. B., Salmona, J., Poelstra, J., Andriambeloson, J. B., Miller, A., ... & Radespiel, U. (2020). Ecology and morphology of mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.) in a hotspot of microendemism in northeastern Madagascar, with the description of a new species. American Journal of Primatology, 82(9), e23180. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajp.23180
  • Poelstra, J. W., Salmona, J., Tiley, G. P., Schüßler, D., Blanco, M. B., Andriambeloson, J. B., ... & Yoder, A. D. (2021). Cryptic patterns of speciation in cryptic primates: microendemic mouse lemurs and the multispecies coalescent. Systematic Biology, 70(2), 203-218. https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/70/2/203/5869053?login=true


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