Dr. Jacky Judas, a French National, is currently working for Soudah Development Company, as Consultant Nature Conservation and Wildlife. He joined the company in September 2021. He was previously working for Emirates Nature in association with the Worldwide Fund for Nature (Emirates Nature – WWF) in UAE. as Research Manager at Wadi Wurayah National Park, the first UAE Mountain protected Area from July 2013 to December 2015, and as Manager and Scientific Adviser – Terrestrial Biodiversity from January 2016 to June 2021. While developing and implementing Emirates Nature -WWF terrestrial conservation strategy, he focused on improving knowledge on biodiversity status by conducting field surveys in the Hajar Mountains (bats, owls, Odonata, mammals through camera trapping…), promoting the development of a network of Protected Areas and improvement of terrestrial habitat management in alignment with National strategies and international conventions (RAMSAR, CBD, SDGs). After a master in land management at Lille University (France), Jacky spend 1 year in the French Austral and Antarctic Territories studying albatrosses and penguins, and then 4 years in the tropical rain forest of French Guiana to complete his Ph.D. on the ecology of the collared peccaries for the French National Museum of Natural History. In 1998, Jacky joined the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) of Saudi Arabia, where he started to work on Houbara Bustard conservation.