These wolf biologists will be providing us with up-to-date information about wolves in their study region, as well as advising us on how to more effectively reach international audiences with our educational resources.
Shlomo Preiss-Bloom
Shlomo Preiss-Bloom is a conservation biologist based at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He studies one of the densest wolf populations in the world in the Golan Heights, a region where wolves live in a complex mosaic of grazing pastures, nature reserves, and minefields. Using non-invasive methods like camera trapping, tracking, and scat surveys, Shlomo investigates how wolves respond to lethal and non-lethal control measures and how they influence the wider ecosystem, including competing golden jackals and endangered mountain gazelles. He works closely with livestock ranchers and wildlife authorities to bridge the gap between science and policy, promoting evidence-based coexistence strategies that account for the remarkable adaptability of wolves in shared landscapes.
Lucas Alonso Flores
Lucas Alonso Flores is a young biologist with an MSc in Conservation Biology who has been actively working with and researching wolves in the Iberian Peninsula for the past four years. Currently, he is settled in the Cantabrian Mountains, where he is pursuing his PhD on this species and is also directly engaged with other large carnivores such as the brown bear, and other species such as vultures and osprey. Besides conducting fieldwork to answer wolf ecology questions, he is committed to spreading the word about the role of wolves in ecosystems and helping separate wolf facts from fiction.
José Vicente López-Bao
José Vicente López-Bao is a conservation scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (based at the Biodiversity Research Institute, IMIB-CSIC). He is interested in the integration of quantitative, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to face conservation challenges. With particular interest in nature conservation, human-wildlife interactions, and the conservation of large carnivores, such as wolves and bears, and other megafauna in human-dominated landscapes. In his research, he integrates different disciplines such as ecology, law, political or social sciences. Member of the Canid Specialist Group of the IUCN/SSC. He keeps a strong emphasis on the applied nature of his research questions. His research has been published in several multidisciplinary and conservation-related journals.
