Gleb Sedash

Project coordinator, Ilbirs Foundation

Gleb is a theriologist specialising in carnivores and ungulates. For more than 10 years he has worked in the Russian Far East. There he studied the Amur leopard, Siberian tiger, Brown and Asian black bear, Yellow-throated marten and Water deer. In 2014-2015, he participated in the Persian leopard reintroduction program in the Caucasus. He worked in the design and expansion of protected areas, development and testing of ecological monitoring programs. He also participated in theriological, ornithological, herpetological and ichthyological surveys.

Gleb joined CXL in June 2023, supporting snow leopard conservation work and the development of the protected areas cluster in the Teskey Ala-Too mountains of Southern Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan.