Garima Bhatia is a chemical engineer by training and birdwatcher by passion. At some point the passion overtook the training, and after spending ten years in automotive research, she decided she had enough of the corporate rat race and joined an NGO called Nature...
Abhisheka is an Artist, Ecologist and Nature educator. Growing up in the garden city of Bangalore and spending vacations at her grandparents’ place in the Western Ghats of Karnataka naturally helped Abhisheka develop a deep interest in nature. Love for animals and the...
Aparajita leads NCF’s Eastern Himalaya programme, under which research and community-based conservation with hornbills as a flagship have been carried out for 20 years. She completed her PhD on hornbill biology and their role in seed dispersal in 2000. For the last 18...
I am a PhD student at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. I use an interdisciplinary approach to study landscape change in arid and semi-arid grasslands in India. My PhD research involves understanding how development interventions in Banni have...
Usha Rajagopalan is a writer by choice and conservationist by chance from Bengaluru. She led a campaign to save Puttenahalli Puttakere and ended up nurturing it through a registered non-profit trust, PNLIT. Directly or indirectly, the lake became a model for others in...
Nirupa Rao is a botanical illustrator based in Bangalore, India. Her illustrations are inspired by regular field visits into the wild, and are informed by close collaboration with botanists to achieve scientific accuracy. In 2017 she was named a National Geographic...
