Koos Bothma

Koos Bothma (born 5 May 1940) is a South African academic and wildlife management specialist who is internationally recognised as an expert on the ecology of leopards. As a professor at the University of Pretoria he contributed to more than 100 scientific papers and reports, and was awarded the Order of the Bataleur for contributions to South Africa's wildlife production and conservation.
Biography
As a wildlife management specialist Bothma has advised Marthinus van Schalkwyk, the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism on hunting adjacent to conservation areas and related aspects (2005) and served as a member on a panel of experts to assess the impact of lions on their prey at the Welgevonden Private Game Reserve (2008).
He is a patron of the South Cape Hunting Association and a life member of the Southern African Zoological Society and the Wildlife Management Association of Southern Africa. Bothma was a founder member of the Southern African Institute of Ecologists and Environmental Scientists and served as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria from 2006 to 2012.
Education
Bothma has a Masters degree in Zoology from the University of Pretoria and a Ph.D. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from Texas A&M University. He was appointed as a full professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Pretoria (UP) in 1981, and became director of the new post-graduate Centre for Wildlife Management in the Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences at UP in April 1989.
Awards and accolades
A life member of the American Society of Mammalogists, Bothma is a recipient of the Tuks (University of Pretoria) Alumni Laureate Award. Among his numerous accolades is the Senior Captain Scott Memorial Medal for exemplary biological work in southern Africa, presented by the South African Academy of Science and Art in 2000.
Research
Bothma has a C3 rating from the National Research Foundation in South Africa. He has contributed to 22 books, 102 scientific papers and reports, and presented at 66 international and South African conferences.

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