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Peter

Kistler

Kistler

My institution

1wild Foundation

My institution's address

Max-Högger-Strasse 6, Zürich, Switzerland

My position

Chairman of the Board

Switzerland

My role in conservation

Conservationist & supporter

About me

A wildlife biologist by formation, I spent my professional career in medical education. However, conservation of wild places and their species was always important to me. Since the need for support vastly exceeds available funds, identifying particularly valuable conservation targets is critical. The EDGE concept of the Zoological Society of London rates species by “irreplaceability”, allowing to choose high-value conservation targets. 1wild Foundation uses this approach to pick projects. If we manage to raise awareness among other donors and wardens of the wild, we can help many more precious species survive (i.e. preserve vast amounts of threatened evolutionary history).

My conservation target (species name)

Species that benefit from 1wild Foundation.
I also do some volunteer work on takhi (Przewalski's horse, primordial wild horse), EDGE Rank 136 / 585 mammals. Formerly EW (extinct in the wild), now EN (endangered).

My project location

Bij Altay, Govi-Altai, Mongolia

My project in brief

The takhi reintroduction programme (now in its 33rd year) aims at re-establishing a viable wild population of this equid in its last known refuge in the wild. The programme also protects the Mongolian swath of the Dzungarian Gobi, a unique biome with many desert-adapted and endangered species, including the Asiatic Wild Ass (khulan), the Saxaul bush and the critically endangered Bogeda Snow Lotus.

My project NEEDs

Additional awareness and donations for protecting the last caballine wild horse and its habitat.

My priorities and quantities

Awareness-building and fundraising for 

- the takhi (primordial wild horse) reintroduction programme in the strictly protected Great Gobi B reserve

- countering key threats to reintroduced takhi (habitat degradation, livestock pathogens, weather extremes, and hybridization)

- maintaining the reserve as a key refuge for khulan and goitered gazelle

- halting the degradation and fragmentation of Eurasian steppes and their flora and fauna

My conservation ACTS

1) Establishment and alimentation of 1wild Foundation.

2) Takhi reintroduction programme (www.savethewildhorse.org): updating donor community through newsletters

ACTS I offer to other conservationists

Financial support for EDGE species, keystone species, EDGE and biodiversity hotspots

My gallery

Panthera

Tigris

Tigris

My institution

Sundarban National Park

My institution's address

Sundarban National Park (West Bengal), Gosaba, West Bengal, India

My position

Apex predator

Bangladesh; Bhutan; China; Indonesia; India; Myanmar; Malaysia; Nepal; Russian Federation; Thailand

My role in conservation

Conservationist

About me

I am a carnivore EDGE species, Rank 260, status Endangered (IUCN)

My conservation target (species name)

Panthera tigris

My project location

Sundarban National Park (West Bengal), Gosaba, West Bengal, India

My project in brief

Long-term survival by hunting and successful reproduction

My project NEEDs

Human conservation engagement

My priorities and quantities

My top priority is intact habitats, as large and connected as possible. Most urgently I need poaching to be stopped and gentle conservation tourism to be increased so locals get an income from my presence.

My conservation ACTS

I engage in ecosystem conservation by keeping sambar and other herbivores in check, thus enabling forest rejuvenation

ACTS I offer to other conservationists

Awe & beauty; I also offer free expertise on deer hunting and prime survival skills

My gallery

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