Katarina Jewgenow
Deputy Director
Reproductive Biology Department
Leibniz Institute for Zoo
and Wildlife Research
Germany
"Wildlife conservation needs personalities that are not only engaged with their work, but it particularly requires people who are enthusiastic, passionate and genial in all they do. For me, Astrid Vargas stands best for this. "
"Wildlife conservation needs personalities that are not only engaged with their work, but it particularly requires people who are enthusiastic, passionate and genial in all they do. For me, Astrid Vargas stands best for this. I met her more than ten years ago, when she directed the Iberian lynx conservation breeding programme. She impressed me with her charisma in dealing with complicated animals, situations and people."
IZW studies the diversity of life histories, evolutionary adaptations and diseases of free-ranging and captive wildlife species, as well as their interactions with people and their environment.