Rodrigo Medellín


Dr Rodrigo A. Medellín is a Mexican ecologist and academic known for his work in the field of bat conservation, jaguars, bighorn sheep, and ocelot, among others. He works at the at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has worked for the American Museum of Natural History, and he has been an ambassador for the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Rodrigo was President of the Society for Conservation Biology and Co-Chair of the CITES Animals Committee. Rodrigo is Co-Chair of the IUCN Bat Specialist Group, Scientific Councilor, Convention on Migratory Species, Founding Director of the Latin American Network for Bat Conservation, and creator of Global South Bats, a network of bat scientists in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Awards

In 2004 he received the Whitley Award, and in 2012 he was the first-ever recipient of the Whitley Gold Award. In 2008 he received a . In 2014 he was the subject of a BBC documentary film titled Natural World: The Bat Man of Mexico. Rodrigo is the seventh Explorer-At-Large of the National Geographic Society.