Viral Joshi
India has a huge asset in young Viral Joshi, who is destined to be one of India’s finest ornithologists. Read More
Sailaja Nayak
She works with big cats across the country. And she is driven and here to stay. In 2012, WWF-India took on six volunteers to help estimate prey density. Read More
Virendra Singh Panwar
Soft-spoken, but smitten by nature, this young lad from Kolti village in the Garhwal Himalaya must walk seven kilometres just to reach a motorable road. Read More
Jayan Menon And Malayala Manorama
On July 28, 2015, Kerala’s largest circulating daily, Malayala Manorama, published an exposé that blew the lid off the state’s Machiavellian, illegal ivory. Read More
Anahita Mukherji And The Times Of India
With 10 years of reporting on public interest issues under her belt, Times of India’s Anahita Mukherji expertly marries tenacity to activism,.. Read More
Uttam Sawant
Assistant Conservator of Forests, Pench Tiger Reserve, 34-year-old Sawant has, in just four years, affected revolutionary changes in four Protected. Read More
Ashok Kumar
It is rumoured that in his lifetime, infamous tiger parts-trader Sansar Chand was only ever fearful of a handful of people, of whom Ashok Kumar was one. Read More
S.E.H. Kazmi
One of my earliest memories is walking in tow of Abba and his men in the forests of the Palamau Tiger Reserve while they tried controlling a forest fire. Read More
Lobsang Gyatso
Rescuing helicopter crash victims in Tawang in 2011 changed the course of Lama Lobsang Gyatso’s life – drawing him from the monastery to active. Read More
Jigmet Takpa, IFS
More than a decade ago, I had my first opportunity to visit Ladakh, the land of Lamas, snow leopards, urials and Black-necked Cranes. Read More