
JOHANNA RODE-WHITE
Co-Chair
Cologne Zoo

AGUS JATI
Deputy Chair
Indonesia

MATTHIAS MARKOLF
Species Survival Officer and Red List Coordinator
Cologne Zoo

VACANT
Newsletter Editor in Chief

VACANT
Programme Officer

PARAG JYOTI DEKA
Co-Chair
Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme

RAFAEL REYNA-HURTADO
Coordinator for Africa
ECOSUR, Universidad Campeche

FERRAN JORI
Animal Health Coordinator
University of Pretoria

JÖRG BECKMANN
Ex situ Coordinator
Nuremberg Zoo

VACANT
Coordinator for South and South East Asia
Members
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ADYAH NINGTYAS| Prigen Conservation Breeding Arc, Indonesia
AHMAD FAISAL | Wildlife Conservation Society, Indonesia
ALASTAIR MACDONALD | University of Edinburgh, UK; EAZA Pigs & Peccaries Taxon Advisory Group Chair
ALISA KLAMM | German Association of Wildlife Scientists, Germany
ALYS GRANADOS | Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Colombia, Canada
Primary expertise: Pig responses to resource availability
ANAGAW ATICKEM MESHESHA | University of Oslo, Norway
ANDREA MONACO | Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Rome, Italy​
Primary expertise: Ecology, conservation and management of wild boar and other large mammals (recent focus: on management of wild boar to control African Swine Fever epidemic); management of alien invasive species.
ANH GALAT-LUONG | French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development and University of Orléans, France
Primary expertise: West Africa; invasive and other problematic species, genes and disease; research publications
ANTOINE SOURON | University of Bordeaux, France
Primary expertise: Taxonomy and phylogeny based on craniomandibular and dental remains; (paleo)ecological reconstructions (biogeochemistry, dental microwear)
APOORVA KULKARNI | The University of Oxford, UK
ARIANNA VICARI | Wildlife Ecology Lab, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
Primary expertise: Spatiotemporal analysis of camera-trap data of the common warthog in West Africa, Senegal
BERTIE FERNS | Cikananga Wildlife Center, Indonesia
Primary expertise: Conservation breeding and captive management of the Javan Warty Pig Sus verrucosus; Knowledge of threats to wild pig populations in Indonesia, particularly on Java Island
CARL TRAEHOLT | Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark
CECILIA AGUILAR-VEGA | Spain
CLAUDE FISCHER | School of Engineering, Architecture and Landscape of Geneva (HEPIA), HES-SO - University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Primary expertise: Movement ecology and census methods
CURBY SIMERSON | Zoological Society of San Diego, USA
DEREK R. RISCH | USA
DHRITIMAN DAS | Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, India
Primary expertise: Pygmy hog ecology, grassland habitat ecology, restoration ecology, population monitoring through sign surveys, camera trapping and radio telemetry
EMILIA LASTICA | University of the Philippines, Philippines
EMMANUEL SCHUTZ | D'Aboville Foundation and Demo Farm Inc., Philippines
Primary expertise: Ecology, socio-environmental project management and coordination
ERIK MEIJAARD | People and Nature Consulting International, Indonesia
FERNANDO GARCIA GIL | D’Aboville Foundation, Philippines
Primary expertise: Wildlife conservation and population monitoring
FLORIAN GBODJA CODJA | University of Abomey-Calav, National University of Agriculture (UNA), Benin
FRANK DRYGALA | Association for Nature and Biodiversity, Germany
Primary expertise: Spatial ecology of mammals (GPS/VHF telemetry, camera trapping)
FREDDY PATTISELANNO | Universitas Negeri Papua, Indonesia
GERARD GALAT | Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France
GONO SEMIADI | BRIN - Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, Indonesia
GOUTAM NARAYAN | Ecosystems India, India
GRAHAM KERLEY | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
GROENEN MARTIN | Wageningen University, Netherlands
HANNAH KHWAJA | Chester Zoo, UK
HARIYAWAN AGUNG WAHYUDI | Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark
ITO MASAAKI | Babirusa Foundation Tokyo, Japan
Primary expertise: Anatomy, animal behaviour
JAIME GONGORA | University of Sydney, Australia
JEAN-PIERRE D'HUART | Conservation Consultancy Services SPRL, Belgium
Primary expertise: Ecology and conservation of giant forest hogs and warthogs
JEFF HOLLAND | Los Angeles Zoo, USA
JEFFRINE ROVIE RYAN JAPNING | Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (IBEC); Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia
JEREMY RINGMA | Australia/ USA
JOCHEN MENNER | Prigen Conservation Breeding Ark of Taman Safari Indonesia
Primary expertise: Ex-situ conservation
JOSÉ MANUEL SÁNCHEZ-VIZCAÍNO | Spain
JOSEPH FORYS | Audubon Institute, USA
Primary expertise: Babirusa management and conservation
KEVIN MOURELLE | Minuartia (Environmental Consultancy), Spain; Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
Primary expertise: European wild boar movement ecology, spatial modelling, Euroboar scientific coordinator and data curator
KRISTIN LEUS | CPSG, EAZA, Copenhagen Zoo
Primary expertise:
LAURENT FRANTZ | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany & Queen Mary University of London, UK
Primary expertise: Genetics, taxonomy
LIDIA PRZYBYLSKA | Wroclaw Zoo, Poland
LYNN CLAYTON | Indonesia
MARIO MELLETTI | African Buffalo Interest Group
Primary expertise: Mammal ecology, surveys, animal behaviour, conservation ecology
MARKUS HANDSCHUH | Germany
MASSIMO SCANDURA | University of Sassari, Italy
MATHIEU SARASA | BEOPS, France
Primary expertise: Wildlife monitoring, conservation status, parasitism, animal behaviour and species interactions
MATTHEW LUSKIN | University of California Berkeley, USA
MATTHEW WARD | Talarak Foundation Inc., Philippines
Primary expertise: Reintroduction, ecology and human-wildlife impact of Visayan warty pigs
MELISSA R. PRICE | USA
MICHAEL SOMERS | University of Pretoria, South Africa
OLIVER KEULING | Institute for Terrestrial & Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany
Primary expertise: Biology of wild boar Sus scrofa in Central Europe, wildlife management, monitoring
RALF LOHE | Germany
Primary expertise: Sustainable use, human-wildlife conflict
RESIT SOZER | Cikananga Integrated Conservation Foundation, Indonesia
RIANJA RAKOTOARIVONY | Madagascar
Primary expertise: ecology and epidemiology of the bushpig
ROLAND WIRTH | ZGAP, Germany
ROSIE DRINKWATER | Animal Systems Genomics, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Primary expertise: Conservation genomics
SABHRINA GITA ANINTA | Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
SANDRA BLOME | Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health. Germany
Primary expertise: Transboundary pig diseases, experimental studies with wild suids under high-containment conditions, vaccination including bait vaccination of wildlife
SELMA MAAROUF | PhD Researcher in Wild Boar Ecology and Genetics, Morocco
Primary expertise: Wild boar ecology, population monitoring, conservation genetics, and human–wildlife interactions
SHUNJO TAKAHASHI | University of Nara, Japan
SIEW TE WONG | Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Society, Malaysia
SONIA LOMBARDI | IUL University of Florence, Italy
STEFANO FOCARDI | CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Sezione di Firenze, Italy
Primary expertise: Behaviour and ecology of large mammals with special reference to wild boar, fallow deer and roe deer; mathematical modelling of wild population dynamics; movement ecology with special relevance to Levy walks; statistical analysis (Montecarlo similuations, circular statistics, structural equation modelling); management of wildlife populations (quotas, adaptive management theory, population assessment)
STEPHANIE HULL | North Carolina Zoo, USA
Primary expertise: Visayan warty pig keeper
THIEMO BRAASCH | Wildlife Biologist, Germany​
THOMAS M. BUTYNSKI | East Africa Primate Diversity & Conservation Program
Primary expertise: Biogeography, taxonomy, evolution, ecology, and behaviour of warthogs
TRI SAYEKTI | Seoul National University, Republic of Korea; Natural Resources Conservation Agency of South Sulawesi (BBKSDA Sulawesi Selatan), Indonesia
UMBERTO ALBARELLA | University of Sheffield, UK
Primary expertise: Zooarchaeology, Domestication, Eurasian Wild Boar
VINCENT OBANDA | Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya
VIRGINIA FRIEDRICHS | Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany
Primary expertise: Wildlife immunology/virology (main work ASFV)
WAYAN BALIK | Yayasan Babirusa, Indonesia
YUDI IRAWAN | Javan Species Recovery Programme (Chester Zoo), Indonesia
YUUJI KODERA | Utsunomiya University, Japan
YVONNE DE JONG | East Africa Primate Diversity & Conservation Program & Lolldaiga Hills Research Programme, Kenya
Primary expertise: Biogeography and conservation of warthogs
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