Claudio Sillero-Zubiri
Claudio Sillero-Zubiri (born November 1, 1960 ) is an Argentine mammal loge and conservationist who lives in Oxford . He is best known for conservation projects for the Ethiopian wolf ( Canis simensis ).
Life
Sillero-Zubiri grew up on a farm in the Argentine pampas . He first studied zoology at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata , where he obtained the Licenciatura in 1984 . In 1994 he was with the dissertation behavioral ecology of the Ethiopian wolf, Canis simensis at the University of Oxford for Ph.D. PhD. In 1988 he became a research fellow at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU, research group for the protection of wild animals). Today he is the deputy director of the research group. He is also a conservation director at the Born Free Foundation and a professor at the University of Vermont at Burlington .
His main research interests are the behavioral ecology of predators , conservation biology and the population biology of wild dogs .
His interests include endangered species, wildlife observation, disease dynamics and protected area management. He has traveled to four continents and carried out projects in 15 countries, including Argentina, Bolivia , Chile , Ethiopia , Kenya , Mongolia , Mozambique , Niger , Peru , India , Indonesia and Senegal . Sillero-Zubiri works for universities, non-governmental organizations, the governments of the host countries and for international organizations. He is also involved in wildlife-rural communities, biodiversity conservation policies, and the mitigation of conflicts between human interests and wildlife.
In 1995 Sillero-Zubiri became wildlife protection officer at the IUCN / SSC Canid Specialist Group, where he has been chairman since 2004. In the same year he started a research and conservation program for the Ethiopian wolves in Bale Mountains National Park , for which he received the Whitley Award for Wildlife Conservation from the Royal Geographical Society in 1998 . The Ethiopian wolf is particularly threatened by the outbreak of epidemics such as rabies and distemper brought in by the stray dogs of the Oromo shepherds. Sillero-Zubiri's program helps contain disease outbreaks through vaccinations.
Sillero-Zubiri has been a member of the IUCN / SSC Cat Specialist Group since 2005. He coordinated the Satpuda Landscape Tiger Partnership, a network of Indian conservationists who work in seven tiger reserves in the forests of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra . For the Darwin Initiative , he supervised a project for the cross-border protection of mountain cats in Bolivia. He also led a WildCRU study of the Manul in Mongolia, and he mapped hotspots where lions and human conflicts arose .
Sillero-Zubiri was the author or co-author of over 200 magazine articles, books or book chapters. In 1997 the book The Wolf Watchers: A Story of Survival was published . In the same year he published the work The Ethiopian Wolf: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan with David Whyte Macdonald . In 2004, he co-published the book The Biology And Conservation Of Wild Canids with Macdonald . In the same year he edited Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs: Status Survey and Consenation Action Plan of the IUCN / SSC Canid Specialist Group with Macdonald and Michael Hoffmann . In 2009 he wrote the family chapter on dogs (Canidae) in the first volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World . In 2013 he wrote a contribution to the work Ecology and Conservation of the Maned Wolf: Multidisciplinary Perspectives by Adriana G. Consorte-McCrea and Eliana Ferraz Santos. He is the editor of Canid News magazine for the IUCN / SSC Canid Specialist Group. He has also published over 50 popular scientific writings and was featured in several television reports, including in 2014 and 2016 in the Terra-X documentaries Kieling's wild world and Kieling's wild Africa .
Web links
- Profile at WildCRU
- Profile at the University of Oxford
- Profile at the IUCN / SSC Cat Specialist Group
- Interview with Sillero-Zubiri about his work
- Bibliography at Google Scholar
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sillero-Zubiri, Claudio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine mammal loge and conservationist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1960 |