Photo of Mariya  Gritsina Mariya Gritsina
Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Bagishamol street, 232b
100053 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
mgritsina(at)gmail.com

I am a conservation biologist. Since 2013 I was engaged in clarifying the status of Pallas’s cat in Uzbekistan, and in 2019 we began to update existing data and obtain new data in Kyrgyzstan. I am a part of the Manul Working Group. From 2016 to 2018, I headed a snow leopard research team, which worked as part of a UNDP project to develop a snow leopard conservation and monitoring programme. I regularly collect data on all species of wild cats in Uzbekistan.