George Olah

George Olah is a co-founder of Wildlife Messengers, a non-profit organization making scientific and educational films to promote nature conservation. George is also a scientist interested in evolutionary- and conservation genetics and tropical ecology. In 2006 he acquired an MSc degree in Applied Zoology at the University of Veterinary Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. He obtained extensive field experience on parrots in many Latin-American countries. In 2016 he gained a PhD degree at The Australian National University in ecology and conservation genetics. During his postdoctoral research he was involved in cutting-edge genomic analysis to investigate the genetic factors behind the decline of critically endangered bird species. He has been working for a decade in the Peruvian Amazon with local communities and ecotourism. He has produced several documentary movies about scientific research and conservation projects.