Luke Hunter is an Australian biologist and is the President of Panthera (www.panthera.org), the New York-based conservation nonprofit dedicated to the range-wide conservation of the world's wild cat species.Hunter has worked on the ecology and conservation of carnivores around the world for more than twenty years. His current projects include developing conservation strategies for African lions, reducing the effects of sport hunting on leopards and lions, and the first intensive study of Persian leopards and the last surviving Asiatic cheetahs in Iran. Hunter supervises graduate students worki...