Homage to an avant-garde conservation leader, Navjot Sodhi

The unconventional Professor Navjot Singh Sodhi of the National University of Singapore died on 12 June 2011 of a particularly aggressive form of lymphoma and associated organ failure. He had been diagnosed only a few weeks before. The shock and suddenness of his loss reverberated through the conservation‐biology community at lightning speed, aided by email lists and social media (e.g., a Facebook tribute page was posted within hours of his death). He was only 49 years old and still at the peak of a brilliant scientific career.