Sidi Imad Cherkaoui is  Professor at the "Institut Scientifique de Rabat, Mohamed 5 University (Morocco). Previously, he worked for BirdLife International (2009-2015) and for WWF (2003-2008).  He is member of several IUCN Commissions and SSC groups as well as TAG of UNEP/CMS/Raptors and formerly AEWA TC for the MENA Region etc. His research field concerns conservation biology and particularly the relationships between the landscape ecology and the ecology of animal vertebrate populations. He has long been interested in population dynamics, study of species's conservation status, home range, diet or breeding success in animal populations, wildlife-Human conflicts ect.  Much of my research has focused on the functioning of bird populations used as indicators of ecosystems' quality.