Roberto Cazzolla Gatti – Brief CV Roberto Cazzolla Gatti is Associate Professor in Ecology and Biodiversity at the Biological Institute and Researcher at the Laboratory of Ecology and Biological Diversity of the Tomsk State University, in Russia. He also works as a freelance documentary photographer and wildlife filmmaker. He participates to geographic and scientific explorations of some of the most remote places of Earth. He studied at a Science High School and then graduated in Biology (Bachelor’s Degree), defending a thesis in Marine Ecology (“Demersal Mediterranean marine resources monitoring”), and with highest honours in Environmental and evolutionary biology (Master’s Degree MSc) at the University of Bari, Italy, defending a thesis in Anthropology (“Primate visual system and stereopsis”). He holds a Ph.D. in Forest Ecology earned at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, studying the tropical forests of Africa and their biodiversity (Ph.D. in Tropical Forest Ecology), defending a thesis titled “The anthropogenic impacts on tropical forest ecology and dynamics”. He also holds with merit a Postgraduate Master’s Degree in International Policies and Global Environmental Protection earned at the Tuscia University in collaboration to the Italian Ministry for the Environment, defending a thesis on “Africa: biodiversity and climate change”. He attended a diploma from the School of Specialization in “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services” at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany with a training in Peyresq, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France. He is specialized in Biological Diversity analysis and Theoretical-experimental Ecology (with applications in Ethology and Evolution). Moreover, he further developed his studies in Philosophy of Biology, Bioethics and Biochemistry of nutrition. He was, for 3 years, environmental scientist/consultant at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) and, for 10 years, scientific advisor of WWF Italy. As a post-doc, he carried out research for two years in tropical ecology and biodiversity at the Impacts on Agriculture, Forestrs and Natural Terrestrial Ecosystems Division (IAFENT) of the Euro- Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC)-University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy). Since more than 10 years he has been conducting field research in Italy, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, India, Indonesia, Serbia, Australia, and Russia. He is a member of the Species Survival Commission (SSC), the Commission of Ecosystem Management (CEM) and the World Commission of Protected Areas (WCPA) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). .