Mahi Puri, PhD candidate in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation won the outstanding oral presentation by a graduate student at the 2020 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting.  There she presented her work entitled “The balancing act: maintaining leopard-prey equilibrium could offer economic benefits to people in a shared forest landscape of central India“.  Mahi has long been interested in the conservation of carnivores in human-dominated landscapes, which are, of course, prevalent in India.  She has collaborated and worked with the Centre for Wildlife Studies in India, and is currently wrapping up her PhD dissertation at the University of Florida.  Mahi is a fellow of the UF Biodiversity Institute and part of UF’s Tropical Conservation and Development program.  To learn more about Mahi, visit her web site. To learn more about her award from ESA and about other awardees click here.