Dr. Mario Melletti

Mario Melletti is an Italian free-lance wildlife biologist and member of the African Buffalo Initiative Group and Wild Pig Specialist Group both part of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. During his PhD Msc. 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. For 3 years he has been studying the ecology and behavior of the forest buffalo in Central Africa. Mario has conducted research on a number of other large mammals collaborating to several projects and surveys on African mammals. He worked in several African countries including Burkina Faso, C.A.R., Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. He started to collaborate with the Cambridge University Press in 2010 as editor of a book series on conservation and management of large mammals and recently with Springer Nature. He has authored a total of seven books and about 70 scientific publications