Axel Hernandez

Pr. Axel Hernandez is a French herpetologist, professor and author graduated between 2012 and 2015 from University of Perpignan Via Domitia (M. A. French Language Pedagogy; M. Sc. History, Historical Art and Archeology) and University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli (M. Sc. Biology: Engineering, Ecology and Environmental Conservation). His final Master’s thesis was based on a new interpretation of the global Urodela crisis and conservation of Newts and Salamanders, in which course He set up new programs at Thoiry’s Zoological Park (Paris) with Dr. Cathy Gibault and Arnaud Jamin (FUG) during an internship that included a captive husbandry for the highly endangered Iranian newt, Neurergus kaiseri. This first study was published in 2016 (Edilivre editions, Paris). On October 2015, Axel Hernandez was awarded Laureate in Ecology for the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation (with Elisabeth Badinter and Allain Bougrain-Dubourg) that supports His current research on Conservation and Ecology. Also member of the French Urodela Group (FUG) and the DGHT (AG Urodela, Germany), His current research interests are Ecology, Natural History and Conservation of Salamanders. At the same time, He worked in different countries all over the world (University of Foreign Languages; Alliance Française of Kostanaï, Kazakhstan; Satree Nakhon Sawan School, Thailand (French Embassy), Lycée Nelson Mandela, Vice-Rectorat of Mayotte and for the AEFE (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development) Léon l'Africain, Casablanca).