About us

RNDr. Milada Petrů, Ph.D. – project team leader

Milada Petrů
She is a leader and coordinator of the project, absolvent of master study Ecology and Ethology, Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague and postgraduate study of Zoology at the same Faculty. At present she works as field zoologist and Fishing cat EEP coordinator at Decin Zoo. She has lot of experiences with research of free ranging primates. She spent 15 months in India (2002-2006) studying play behaviour of Hanuman langurs and 2 months on preliminary study on Philippines, where she got acquainted with local conditions and started cooperation with local organizations and experts necessary for realization of this project. Since 2009 she spent many months on Bohol island, Philippines, working on the Tarsius project.

RNDr. Lubomír Peške

Lubomír Peške
He is expert in radio-telemetry of different bird and mammalian species in all over the world. His participation in the project helps us in planning and preparations of the project, arrangement of all the technical equipment and also following analyses.

Petr Slavík


He belongs among those who were born with the love for wilderness. The “vagrancy” that is how Petr Slavík calls his beginnings as a traveller which transformed into the precisely organized and demanding expeditions to animals on the brink of extention. Petr´s images brought from his expeditions have been presented to public in several exhibitions. Events like “Out of Africa”, “The Lost World” or the charity evening “In the Tropics of Three Continents” do not present only the art of the author. The proceeds from the auction entering his exhibitions support the breeding of rare animal species. “Life is a path and we are pilgrims searching for beauty and adventure”, this is what Petr is saying about his trips to the real wild, but he also cares about the animals living in captivity. He is in close collaboration with the Zoo of Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. Petr Slavík is the author of the publication “Wild Hearts” presenting the inhabitants of the Zoo. His is living according to this motto:”Walk without trampling”. You can find unique photographs of the Philippines tarsiers on author´s web site.

Ing. Václav Řehák

Václav Řehák Provides all-round help with project, takes care of our web site and participated on scientific and educational programme for filipino students.

Sherry Ramayla

Sherry RamaylaResearcher focusing on wildlife studies in Mindoro, Cebu, Bohol and Mindanao. She teaches science subjects at Philippine Science High School. She will assist mainly on the education part of the project.

Other co-workers

Jana Kaňková

Lukáš Černý

Richard Policht

Bonn Aure

Carla Escabi

Jose Travero

Volunteers in the field

Radka Jupová, Ondřej Husák, Tomáš Daněk, Barbora Hančíková, Věra Davidová


The Tarsius project is being conducted in cooperation with

Decin Zoo

Simply Butterflies Conservation Centre

Bohol Island State University

Philippines Science High School

Philippine Tarsier Foundation, Inc.