Dr. Nina R. Ingle receives the 2012 Parker/Gentry Award from the Field Museum

The Philippine Consulate General wishes to inform the Filipino-American community that Wildlife Conservation Society of the Philippines (WCSP) President and founding member Dr. Nina R. Ingle received the 2012 Parker/Gentry Award from the Field Museum President and CEO Richard Lariviere during the Parker/Gentry award reception held at the Field Museum on October 11, 2012.
The Parker/Gentry Award honors an outstanding individual, team or organization whose efforts have had a significant impact on preserving the world’s rich cultural heritage and whose actions serve as a model to others.
Dr. Ingle’s commitment to biodiversity conservation through research, management, and education exemplifies the spirit of the Parker/Gentry Award.
Early in her career she chose to focus on bats, fascinated by their diversity and their role in forest ecology as seed dispensers, pollinators, and insect predators. She wrote the first identification key to the 70 species of bats then known in the Philippines with Dr. Lawrence R. Heaney of the Field Museum (A key to the Bats of the Philippines; Fieldiana, 1992). Dr. Ingle obtained her Ph.D. in Natural Resources Management from Cornell University in 2001; her dissertation research investigated the role of fruit-eating bats and birds, and wind in spreading seeds into recently deforested areas.
Chicago, 12 October 2012