Graduated in natural science and forestry in 1978, he has always worked in the field of protection and conservation of the environment. For fourteen years in the province of Bolzano (South Tirol) managing two Nature Parks (Parco Naturale di Tessa e Parco Naturale Dolomiti di Sesto). He has managed several Biotopes intervening with landscape restoration projects.
Since 1992 he is director of Nature Park Paneveggio Pale di San Martino where he has promoted and supervised the project "Ethnographic Path of the Vanoi Valley".
He is a member of I.N.U. (Town-planning National Institute). He is included in the list of the Ministry of the Environment as licenced to manage a National Park, and he is member of the register of experts in landscape preservation and urbanism in the province of Bolzano.
He has written several articles on specialised magazines and has been chairman in several meetings both in Italy and abroad.