The behind the scenes: the people working for our wildlife conservation goals.
Our story
Wildlife Initiative is a non-profit-making organization established in Mongolia in 2020 for wildlife conservation and research. The Wildlife Initiative’s President Choikhand Janchivlamdan and its Executive Director Claudio Augugliaro after 10 years developing the Mongolian grassroots NGO Green Initiative, decided to found a new NGO more specifically focusing on wildlife conservation.
We depend on the generous support of organisations, companies, privates, that share our mission for protecting endangered species.
We offer many unique sponsorship opportunities. Learn more about becoming a Wildlife Initiative supporter by visiting our sponsorships page.
We believe that partnerships are the center of our activity. Through the work implemented in Mongolia, we hold collaborations with more than a dozen government and non-government organizations worldwide. We are open to “field Partners” that can support us giving visibility to our NGO, collaborating in the research field and with research costs, donating equipment and analyzing research data and conservation issues.
Leader of Wildlife Initiative International and Executive Director of Wildlife Initiative Mongolia.
Claudio is the co-founder of Wildlife Initiative International.
As an ecologist he has a great experience in working on Mongolian carnivores. Since 2012, he mainly worked on the snow leopard and the Pallas’s cat. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), a member of the Steering Committee of the Manul Working Group, and a member of the Snow Leopard Network. He holds collaborations with many researchers and conservation institutions across the world and he is a partner of Snow Leopard Conservancy. As the Wildlife Initiative leader, he coordinates the activities of the NGO throughout the four continents, taking part in the field work and managing the relationships with all the stakeholders. He has been living with his family in Mongolia since 2013.