Name: Cats in the Shadows
Start: 2017-09-25T09:00:00-0600
End: 2017-09-25T10:00:00-0600

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Cats in the Shadows

Start your day with an hour of innovation and come ready for inspiration and potential story ideas. Presenters have 8 minutes to share compelling discoveries and big ideas that the world needs to hear. Rarely sighted and difficult to research, this session presents seven amazing stories you have never heard from the world of small and rare cats research and conservation.

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Special Presentation by Ravikant Singh - Binomial Solutions - Wildlife Tech Challenge Winner

Facilitator

Luke Dollar

Wildlife Biologist, Manager, Big Cats Initiative

Wildlife biologist and National Geographic Explorer Luke Dollar coordinates conservation and research programs focusing on carnivore ecology, habitats, and preservation. While most of his own research is focused in Madagascar, he also manages the Society’s Big Cats Initiative, which... Read More →

Speakers

Anthony Giordano

Founder and Chief Conservation Scientist, S.P.E.C.I.E.S.

Anthony J. Giordano is the founder and chief conservation scientist at S.P.E.C.I.E.S., the only organization dedicated specifically to the conservation of the world’s carnivores (www.carnivores.org). He holds a M.Sc. in Conservation Biology, and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology and Management. Anthony is a former first round Panthera Kaplan Graduate Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, a fellow with ConservationXLabs, and is the current President of the Wild Felid Research and Management... Read More →

Murthy Kantimahanti

Founder and Lead Conservation Biologist, Eastern Ghats Wildlife Society in South India

Murthy Kantimahanti is the founder and lead conservation biologist for the Eastern Ghats Wildlife Society in South India. Murthy works closely with communities throughout the Eastern Ghats ranges, especially in unclassified forests where human-wildlife conflict occurs, monitoring... Read More →

Ravikant Singh

Co-Founder and CEO, Binomial Solutions

Ravikant Singh is the co-founder and CEO of Binomial Solutions, a leading Indian IT solution and service provider which created "e-Eye®", a solar-powered surveillance system that monitors wildlife areas 24/7 and in all weather while its intelligent software flags suspicious activity... Read More →

Rodrigo Villalobos

Coordinator of the Mitigation Human-Wildcats Conflict Program, Andean Cat Alliance

Rodrigo Villalobos, DVM, PhD candidate of Conservation Sciences at University of Minnesota, is the coordinator of the mitigation human-wildcats conflict program for the Andean Cat Alliance. He has spent 11 years traversing the Andes Mountains looking for and studying the Andean cat... Read More →

Carlton Ward

National Geographic Explorer

Carlton Ward Jr is a National Geographic Explorer focused on the story of the Florida panther as a call to action for protecting the Florida Wildlife Corridor – a campaign he helped establish through two 1000-mile expeditions that mapped and connected conservation priorities from... Read More →

Monday September 25, 2017 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Explorers Room Jackson Lake Lodge

Session, Cat Conservation

Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival & Conservation Summit