Peter Zahler

Primary Interests

Peter Zahler has over 35 years of experience in wildlife conservation. He has worked on bird and mammal conservation in many parts of the world (e.g., Alaska, Arizona, Venezuela, Peru), with a focus on temperate mountains and grasslands in the Central Asian region. His main interest is incorporating science into applied conservation and building and supporting multiple-component conservation program capacity (including community governance and government capacity building, wildlife monitoring and enforcement, protected area management, anti-poaching and wildlife trade initiatives, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, etc.). He designed, started, and ran major conservation programs in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Mongolia, helped design a major program in Arctic Beringia (Alaska and Siberia), and he has supervised programs and projects in the Russian Far East, the Central Asia states, PNG, Fiji, and Iran. He is a member of the IUCN Caprid Specialist Group, Cat Specialist Group, Antelope Specialist Group, Small Carnivore Specialist Group, Small Mammal Specialist Group, and World Commission on Protected Areas.