Marco Festa-Bianchet
Marco Festa-Bianchet is Professor of Ecology at the Universite de
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Before moving to Sherbrooke in 1990,
he was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Large Animal Research
Group in Cambridge, UK. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of
Calgary in 1987. Marco's research program on the ecology, behavior
and conservation of mountain ungulates is based on long-term
monitoring of marked individuals. His studies of bighorn sheep and
mountain goats in Alberta have led to numerous publications in
international ecological journals, contributed to wildlife
management policies and provided
training for about twenty graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows. Graduate students from his research group are studying
bighorn sheep in British Columbia, Alpine ibex in Italy and Punjab
urial in Pakistan. Marco chairs the IUCN Caprinae Specialist Group
and co-chairs the COSEWIC Terrestrial Mammals Specialist Group.
