Cheetahs: A genetically resilient species?

by Carlos Iglesias Pastrana | Feb 9, 2022 | Veterinary Medicine & Conservation

Conservation status The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), the only representative species of its genus, is currently listed as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN Red List. Different stochastic processes as well as anthropological causes such as...

Scientific evidence of transgenerational decrease in tusk size and tusk agenesis in African elephants inhabiting regions with high poaching rates

por Carlos Iglesias Pastrana | Ene 5, 2022 | Science for conservation

Veterinario e investigador, apuesta por la ciencia de la reproducción y la genética como herramientas claves en la conservación de la especies domésticas y salvajes. Carlos Iglesias Pastrana DVM. MSc. PhD. Candidate to Quantitative Genetics. El impacto de las...

Critically Endangered African Elephants

by Carlos Iglesias Pastrana | May 3, 2021 | Wildlife Medicine & Conservation

African elephants are threatened with extinction. The latest update of the conservation status of African elephants on the IUCN Red List highlights, for the first time, the categorisation of the African savannah elephant and the African elephant of...

White Naped Mmangabey ex-situ conservation

by Carlos Iglesias Pastrana | Mar 9, 2021 | Science for conservation, Wildlife Medicine & Conservation

For non-human primates, approximately 60% of the species are endangered and 75 % of wild declined populations due to human activities in the last three decades. Here we present a good example of multifaceted conservation throughout studbook management which could be...

World Elephant Day

by Carlos Iglesias Pastrana | Aug 12, 2020 | Wildlife Medicine & Conservation, World Day

Veterinarian and researcher, committed to the science of reproduction and genetics as key tools in the conservation of domestic and wild species. Carlos Pastrana Iglesias MVP. MSc. PhD candidate in Quantitative Genetics. Día Mundial del Elefante.El 12 de agosto se...