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About the Hyaena Specialist Group


The Hyaena Specialist Group consists of a small body of biologists concerned with research about, and conservation of, a small but ecologically important family of mammalian carnivores, the Hyaenidae. The Hyaena Specialist Group is one of over 100 similar groups of scientists and other specialists forming part of the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan for Hyaenas (Mills & Hofer 1998) provides basic information on hyaenas and the conservation issues they face. Much of this, and other, information about these animals is available on the pages of this website.

All Specialist Group members are volunteers. The Group itself does not manage projects, but, in their individual capacities, group members are involved in the development and implementation of conservation programs and projects.

Current members of the Hyaena Specialist Group

  • Mounir AbiSaid, mabisaid@cyberia.net.lb
  • Shamshad Alam, msalam@gmail.com
  • Rathinasamy Arumugam, rrmugam@yahoo.com
  • Torsten Bohm, Torsten.Bohm@gmx.de
  • Cole Burton, coleburton@gmail.com
  • Levan Butkhuzi, striped.hyena@nacres.org
  • Stephanie Dloniak, smdloniak@gmail.com
  • Nolwenn Drouet-Hoguet, yaena@mweb.co.zw
  • Emre Can, emre.can@zoo.ox.ac.uk
  • Morteza Eslami, eslami@iraniancheetah.org
  • Marion East, east@izw-berlin.de
  • Philippe Fosse, fosse@univ-tlse2.fr
  • Laurence Frank, lgfrank@uclink.berkeley.edu
  • Luke Hunter, lhunter@panthera.org
  • Jack Grisham, grisham@stlzoo.org
  • Oliver Honer & Bettina Wachter, Hoener@izw-berlin.de
  • Kay Holekamp, (Chair) holekamp@msu.edu
  • Susan Jenks, jenkss@sage.edu
  • Hans Kruuk, hans@kruuk.wanadoo.co.uk
  • Alireza Mahdavi, alirezacroc2000@yahoo.com
  • Glyn Maude, brownhyaena@info.bw
  • Gus Mills, GusM@sanparks.org
  • Philip Richardson, philip.awf@icon.co.za
  • Dawn Scott , dawn.scott@brighton.ac.uk
  • Alan Shoemaker, sshoe@mindspring.com
  • Lars Werdelin, werdelin@nrm.se
  • Ingrid Wiesel, strandwolf@iway.na
  • Richard Yarnell, richard.yarnell@ntu.ac.uk

Former Specialist Group chairman and superb hyena biologist M.G.L. ("Gus") Mills with spotted hyaenas in Harar, Ethiopia.