Motto:

I study ecology that was learnt from nature not from books.

Zsolt is a botanist, ethnoecologist, the founder and head of the ”Traditional Ecological Knowledge” Research Group at the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary, member of Academia Europaea. He was member of the IPBES Indigenous and Local Knowledge Task Force (2014-2023) and a Coordinating Lead Author in the IPBES Global Assessment (2016-2019). His main research focus is traditional, indigenous and local ecological knowledge of herders and farmers in Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Mongolia, Iran and Kenya. His key approaches are collaborative research and knowledge co-production with locals in order to avoid and resolve conflicts with conservation and foster traditional land management, e.g. by developing tradition-based conservation management and agri-environmental practices and policies.