Grupo de Especialistas en Ganado Silvestre Asiático de la CSE de la UICN

Practitioner in One Plan Approach species conservation, linking in situ and ex situ. Significant experience of partnership development and management involving government, NGO, zoos, communities and academic organisations. 

Qamar Qureshi is a quantitative ecologist and retired Professor at the Wildlife Institute of India, where he worked for more than three decades. His research integrates population ecology, landscape ecology, GIS, remote sensing and spatial modelling to inform wildlife conservation and management. He has contributed to national assessments and conservation programmes for tigers, leopards, elephants, river dolphins, ungulates, Asiatic wild ass, flamingos, barasingha, rhinoceros, cheetah, hangul, wild cattle and the Great Indian bustard. He has also worked extensively on species recovery, reintroduction, habitat connectivity, human-wildlife interactions and invasive species management. Qureshi has supervised 11 doctoral scholars and 43 master’s dissertations and has authored more than 125 peer-reviewed publications. He extensively worked on carnivore ecology and conservation. He currently serves as Science Advisor to the Wildlife Trust of India and The Corbett Foundation.