Ecologist Madhav Gadgil has died. He was born in 1942. He wrote the concept plan for the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India's first biosphere reserve under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme, and founded the Centre for Ecological Sciences at IISc Bengaluru. He also chaired the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, whose 2011 report proposed strict protection for large parts of the Western Ghats.