Mongolia will open its border after two years! We are pleased to announce that Mongolia will soon allow tourists to enter the country. We struggled for two years without the…
Wildlife Initiative and Snow Leopard Conservancy together protecting snow leopard! Thanks to its professionalism and team efficiency, Wildlife Initiative will continue to collaborate with leading organizations involved in the conservation…
Protecting large carnivores in the Mongolian Western Altai After 15 months of data collection, we finally completed a major project in the Western Altai, with our partner Snow Leopard Conservancy.…
First anniversary of Wildlife Initiative Mongolia Today, December 30th, we are celebrating the first anniversary of Wildlife Initiative! The first branch we founded within our organization was located in Mongolia,…
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…
The Sicilian researcher Claudio Augugliaro, Executive Director of Wildlife Initiative and member of the Steering Committee of the Manul Working Group, is one of the most expert of this elusive…
A scientific project in Mongolia set by a researcher from Palermo, is getting remarkable results using FoxLights, lights that keeps predators far from livestock, involving local communities. Could this represent…
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.
