Anthony J. Giordano

Anthony J. Giordano is a conservation biologist and wildlife ecologist with more than 20 years of experience working in as many countries around the world. He holds a double B.Sc. from Long Island University at Southampton College in Biology (Zoology) and Environmental Science (Biology), where he completed an honors thesis on the relationship between shark communities and marine fish species diversity in Fiji, The Cook Islands, and the Kingdom of Tonga. He received his M.Sc. in conservation biology and applied ecology from Frostburg State, where he studied the feeding ecology of a reintroduced river otter population in northcentral Pennsylvania. While at Texas Tech pursuing his Ph.D. in wildlife science and management, Anthony was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for this jaguar conservation work in the Gran Chaco. His research as a Panthera Kaplan Scholar led to the first ever formal scientific investigation of the jaguar in Paraguay and the Chaco Jaguar Conservation Project, the only long-term transboundary conservation project committed to resolving human-jaguar conflict across the vast Chaco biome. Anthony has published dozens of scientific and popular articles on wildlife ecology and conservation and conducts peer-reviews for more than a dozen scientific journals. He is the President of the Wild Felid Research and Management Association, the President Elect for the Latin American section of the Society for Conservation Biology, and serves on the Conservation Committee for the American Society of Mammalogists. Anthony is a member of the Explorer’s Club, the Sigma Xi Scientific Society, and the IUCN’s Cat, Small Carnivore, and Peccary Specialist Groups. Currently he is managing or co-managing 14 projects involving cats in 10 countries as director of S.P.E.C.I.E.S., including a fishing cat conservation effort in Bangladesh, a survey of Sri Lanka leopards with SLWCS, the first ocelot project on Trinidad, and several investigations of jaguarundi ecology.

November 2015