Tavo Burat (born Gustavo Buratti Zanchi, 22 May 1932 – 8 December 2009) was an Italian Waldensian writer and journalist.

He was the founder and first director[5] of La slòira (in English literally The plough), one of the few magazines written in Piedmontese and widespread all around the region,[6] and was as well an editor of the mountaineering review ALP from 1974 to 2009.

[9] In 1974 on the summit of Monte Rubello (1,414 m), where in 1907 left-wing workers of Biella and the Sesia Valley erected a monument on the place of Fra Dolcino last resistance,[10] he laid a new stone memorial.

[11] Tavo Burat also pursued an active political career, at first in the Italian Socialist Party and later in the Verdi, focusing particularly on ecological issues.

The Biella section of the voluntary association Legambiente is named Tavo Burat[12] in order to celebrate his environmentalist legacy.