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Donazioni dell'Ambasciatore alla Wildlife Initiative In occasione della Festa del 2 giugno, che per ora non è stato possibile festeggiare insieme, l’Ambasciatore ha effettuato due donazioni private a delle Organizzazioni…
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It is hunted to make hats out of its fur, and its fat is used to cure rheumatism. But Claudio Augugliaro, an Italian researcher living in Mongolia, is trying to…
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A group of the Department of ecology and evolution at the University of Lausanne went to Mongolia to help saving one of the most elusive mammals of the planet. A…
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.
