Spartaco Gippoliti

He’s been working for years on Mammal preservation and taxonomy, especially concerning Primates. Since 1998 he’s a member of the Primate Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission of IUCN and in this capacity he took part in the writing of the Action Plan for African Primates (1998) and for Western Chimpanzee (2003).
He is the author of more than 60 technical and scientific articles issued, among others in Oryx, Biodiversity and Conservation, Conservation Biology, Primate Conservation, Mammal Review.
With Emiliano Bruner he edited the book Le collezioni Primatologiche Italiane (Italian Collections of Primatology, 2006). Moreover, as an expert in ex situ conduct techniques, animal welfare and education to preservation, he cooperated with Rome, Pistoia and Naples Zoological Gardens and with the Faunal Park "La Torbiera" and his articles about this subject were issued in the most important reviews in the field (Zoo Biology, International Zoo Yearbook, Der Zoologische Garten ecc.). At present he is councillor of the Italian Theriological Association (ATiT) and of the Italian Institute of Anthropology (ISITA) and associate editor of the Journal of Anthropological Sciences.