Partners
Partners
President, Wildlife Conservation Trust
Dr Anish Andheria is the President of the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), a not-for-profit set up to preserve, protect and conserve forests and wildlife. Currently, WCT works in and around 160 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries spread across 23 states of India and catalyses path-breaking conservation action. Anish is a member of several government committees, including the NTCA; the State Boards of Wildlife of Maharashtra and Jammu & Kashmir; the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority, the Executive Committee of the Gujarat State Lion Conservation Society and Tiger Conservation Steering Committee of Madhya Pradesh. He was awarded the prestigious Carl Zeiss Conservation Award in 2008 and the UAA-Institute of Chemical Technology Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2017. He is a Fellow of LEAD and has helped set up ‘Kids for Tigers’, a nationwide conservation education programme in 2000, which has reached out to several million schoolchildren.
President, Wildlife Conservation Trust
Dr Anish Andheria is the President of the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), a not-for-profit set up to preserve, protect and conserve forests and wildlife. Currently, WCT works in and around 160 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries spread across 23 states of India and catalyses path-breaking conservation action. Anish is a member of several government committees, including the NTCA; the State Boards of Wildlife of Maharashtra and Jammu & Kashmir; the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority, the Executive Committee of the Gujarat State Lion Conservation Society and Tiger Conservation Steering Committee of Madhya Pradesh. He was awarded the prestigious Carl Zeiss Conservation Award in 2008 and the UAA-Institute of Chemical Technology Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2017. He is a Fellow of LEAD and has helped set up ‘Kids for Tigers’, a nationwide conservation education programme in 2000, which has reached out to several million schoolchildren.
Wildlife Photographer
Dhritiman Mukherjee is one of the most respected nature, wildlife and conservation photographers from India. Dhritiman is a recipient of the Earth Heroes Award from the Royal Bank of Scotland, for inspiring people towards conservation through his images. He was also awarded the Carl Zeiss Conservation Award and Kirloskar Vasundhara Mitra Award, among many others. Dhritiman loves to work on challenging, lesser-known, endangered species and has worked all across India and in 35 countries around the world. His work has been published in the BBC Wildlife magazine, National Geographic Traveller, Lonely Planet, New York Times, Nature inFocus and more.
Filmmaker & TV Presenter
Malaika Vaz is a filmmaker, National Geographic Explorer, TV presenter and CEO at Untamed Planet. Since co-founding India and New York-based production company Untamed Planet in 2017, she and her team have produced films and series for media networks like National Geographic, BBC, Al-Jazeera and Sky TV. In addition to natural history films, her recent work has documented climate change, labour and migration issues, illegal wildlife trade, endangered species conservation and the human-wildlife interface.
Wildlife Biologist
Dr Nandini Velho is an ORA India Fellow and Project Lead at Canopy Collective, a multi-disciplinary group dedicated to innovation and partnerships at the intersection of art, science, and action in the field of nature conservation. With a decade of experience working in Arunachal Pradesh and other parts of northeast India, she brings extensive expertise and a passion for conservation to her work.
Wildlife Photographer
Internationally acclaimed photographer and a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), Shivang Mehta has been a wildlife professional for more than two decades. Shivang is a Sony Alpha Ambassador and an ambassador for Zeiss Optics. From being a wildlife guide in Corbett National Park to starting India’s pioneering venture in wildlife photo tourism to wildlife storytelling through the medium of photo stories and films, he has donned many hats in his long career. Shivang is also the recipient of the ToFT Tigers award for his contribution to developing alternative wildlife tourism models by working with prominent wildlife lodges of India, through the medium of DSLR camera trapping technology. As a photography guide for his organisation Nature Wanderers, he has led more than 1000 photo safaris across global habitats and trained innumerable photography aspirants.
Wildlife Photographer and Filmmaker
Kalyan Varma is a wildlife photographer, filmmaker, naturalist and explorer specializing in environmental issues in India. He freelances with many of the world's leading magazines, environmental NGOs and television networks like the National Geographic and BBC. He is one of the founders of Nature inFocus.
Editor, Nature inFocus
Radha Rangarajan is the Editor at Nature inFocus. She is an environmental photographer and a published writer who has a keen interest in natural history and conservation filmmaking. Radha has written and guest-edited over fifteen picture books for children, which have been published by Pratham Books, and has co-authored a non-fiction book on Indian environmental heroes, published by Duckbill-Penguin.
