Mikhail F. Bagaturov is currently working as a head of the Department of Zooculture at the state Leningrad Zoo, St. Petersburg, Russia, and is an Associate Researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2016, he has been an academic in the Biology Research and Environmental Research Unit at the Athens Institute for Education and Research. He works on the captive propagation, youth education and conservation of invertebrates and lower vertebrates with a special focus on the study and research of amphibians, reptiles and arthropods, and the conservation of threatened fauna as an expert of The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN/SSC: ASG/CPSG). He is SSC Focal Person for the Region of former USSR countries.