Philippe Chardonnet is a wildlife veterinarian specialising in tropical countries. He spent 20 years working as a researcher with IRAD (Centre International de Recherche en Agronomie pour le Développement) on field operations ranging from wildlife management to rural evelopment in Africa, Asia, South America and the South Pacific. His research has included tropical deer farming, development of traditional livestock production, sustainable uses of wildlife, identification of rinderpest Viral disease of cattle, status in African wildlife, training of wildlifeveterinarians and wildlife managers, community-based wildlife management. Philippe ahs also been involved in many conservation perations on specific taxa such as the giant eland and bongo (C.A.R.), elephant (West and Central Africa), lion (West and Central Africa), jaguar (Brazil), marsh deer (Brazil), rusa deer (South- East Asia and South Pacific), Karatau argali (Kazakhstan), and Kulan (Turkmenistan). ince 2001, he has been the director of Fondation Internationale pour la Gestion de la Faune (International Foundation for the Conservation of ildlife), a Paris-based NGO devoted to wildlife conservation in developing countries.

David Mallon is a conservation biologist and Associate Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He gained a master’s degree in the ecology of thesnow leopard and completed a doctoral thesis on Himalayan ungulates, both in Ladakh, India. The focus of his professional work lies in Central and Eastern Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East. He has worked on Red List assessments of antelopes since 1989 and as co-compiler of Part 4 of the IUCN Antelope Action Plan, covering North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Recent project work has been in hina (Qinghai-Tibet Plateau), Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, and Yemen. These involved biodiversity assessment and monitoring, protectedarea evaluation, capacity building, and community co-management.

Members of the Antelope Specialist Group for several years, avidand Philippe are combining their respective field experience to support the world expertise of antelope specialists with the intention to etterinvolve the international community in conservation and development issues related to antelopes, such as: improving the knowledge of oorly known antelopes (e.g. bongo, giant eland), initiating and/or boosting field operations for the conservation of threatened antelopes (saiga, iant sable, Przewalski’s gazelle), promoting capacity building in antelope range countries, supporting reintroductions of antelopes where xtinct,increasing the integration of antelope conservation in sustainable development programmes (such as blue duiker) and making regular status assessments for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.