Mario Melletti

Mario Melletti is an independent researcher and member of the African Buffalo Initiative

Group and Wild Pig Specialist Group both part of the International Union for the Conservation

of Nature. For about 3 years he has been studying the ecology and behaviour of the forest

buffalo in Central Africa. Besides his work with buffalo, Mario has acquired experience with

other large mammals. During his MSc. and PhD studies, he was affiliated with the Department

of Animal and Human Biology, at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy and with the

Department of Conservation Biology of the Estación Biólogica de Doñana (CSIC-EBD)

Seville, Spain. Mario has also contributed to several projects and surveys on African mammals.

He started to collaborate with the Cambridge University Press in 2010 and with Springer Nature in 2020 as editor of seven books on conservation and management of large mammals. He is a reviewer of many peer-reviewed international journals and a wildlife photographer. He has also authored about 70 scientific publications.