Peter W. W. Lurz

Dr. STEFAN BOSCH, Born 1962, lives in Southern Germany and works as an anaesthetist and as a emergency doctor for the air rescue service. His passion and curiosity have made him observe and study birds and mammals since his youth; he gives talks and organises excursions for the German Wildlife Trust (Naturschutzbund Deutschland). His observations and experiences have been published in numerous magazines, newspaper articles, scientific papers and books. For more than 20 years, he has also been an editorial member of the German Wildlife Magazine "Naturschutz heute". Dr. PETER W. W. LURZ, Lives in Scotland and is an internationally recognised tree squirrel expert. He has studied and carried out research on squirrel ecology, behaviour, competition and conservation in the UK, Italy and the USA for over 20 years. Although he has worked and published on hedgehogs, badgers, bats, arctic foxes, ducks and black grouse, his great passion have and continue to be squirrels. In Great Britain he has been involved in ecological research and in the development of monitoring and conservation strategies to protect the endangered red squirrel.