Rabinowitz has authored over 100 scientific and popular articles and eight books, including Jaguar: One Man’s Struggle to Establish the First Jaguar Preserve (1986/ 2000), Chasing the Dragon’s Tail: The Struggle to Save Thailand’s Wild Cats (1991/ 2002), Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia’s Forbidden Wilderness (2001), Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed (2008), An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar (2014), and a children’s book entitled A Boy and a Jaguar(2014).ĭr.

Rabinowitz also discovered a new large mammal species and the world’s most primitive deer, the leaf deer.ĭr. His work in Belize resulted in the world’s first jaguar sanctuary his work in Taiwan resulted in the establishment of that country’s largest protected area and last piece of intact lowland forest his work in Thailand generated the first field research on Indochinese tigers, Asiatic leopards, and leopard cats, in what was to become the region’s first World Heritage Site and his work in Myanmar has led to the creation of five new protected areas, including the country’s first marine national park, first and largest Himalayan national park, and the world’s largest tiger reserve in the Hukaung Valley. Rabinowitz has traveled the world on behalf of wildlife conservation and over the years has studied jaguars, clouded leopards, Asiatic leopards, tigers, Sumatran rhinos, bears, leopard cats, raccoons, and civets. Rabinowitz served as the Executive Director of the Science and Exploration Division for the Wildlife Conservation Society for almost 30 years.ĭr. Prior to co-founding Panthera with the organization’s Chairman, Dr. in wildlife ecology, and was the Chief Scientist of Panthera. Rabinowitz graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1981 with an M.S. Alan Rabinowitz is one of the world’s leading big cat experts and has been called “the Indiana Jones of wildlife conservation’” by TIME Magazine.

Rabinowitz on the Panthera Tribute Pageĭr. We would like to extend our sincerest condolences to the Rabinowitz family. Rabinowitz was devoted to protecting the world’s wild cats and his contributions to conservation efforts are unsurpassed. Alan Rabinowitz, an honorary board member of the Mountain Lion Foundation and co-founder of Panthera, has passed.

Cougar by Alan Rabinowitz