Photo of Urs  Breitenmoser Urs Breitenmoser
KORA, Talgut-Zentrum 5
CH-3063 Ittigen
u.breitenmoser(at)kora.ch

Co-chair IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group
I am a carnivore ecologist and former senior scientist at the University of Bern and the former director of the Foundation KORA – Carnivore Ecology and Wildlife Management. I have been involved in research projects on carnivore ecology for 40 years and have supervised many master and doctoral theses in the frame of the Swiss carnivore projects. My main field of interest is the reintroduction of Eurasian lynx and the re-integration of large carnivores into human dominated landscapes. I have co-chaired the IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group since 2001 and have since been involved in many cat research and conservation programmes all over the world.