Priyankar Chakraborty

MSc, Wildlife Conservation Action

I am an interdisciplinary marine and wildlife conservationist with a focus on local ecological knowledge, environmental sustainability, and fish systematics. My primary approach involves integrating traditional wisdom and experiential understanding of ecosystems through local community knowledge. I actively engage and involve local communities in my work using participatory research methods.

In my current role as a project associate, I am investigating the ichthyological biodiversity of Ganges River Dolphin hotspots in India.

Previous Work

My previous work, 'Fishers' Knowledge of Guitarfish in the Sundarbans, India', was funded by The Habitats Trust. In that project, I collected baseline data on the guitarfishes and wedgefishes of the Sundarbans, using the ecological knowledge of local fishers. I identified the ecological, social and economic dependence of the region's fishers on these species, using a holistic ecosystem approach.

Selected Publications

Chakraborty, P., Mishra, S. S., Saren, S. C., Sengupta, A., Bhattacharya, K. R., Chakraborty, S. B. (2025). First Confirmed Record of the Small-Eyed Loter Prionobutis microps (Butidae) for India, South Asia. Journal of Ichthyology, 65(6), 994–1000. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945225600533

Chakraborty, P. (2023). Photographic record of the butterfly ray Gymnura cf. poecilura (Myliobatiformes: Gymnuridae) from the Bhagirathi-Hooghly River in West Bengal, eastern India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 15(2): 22749-22751. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.7985.15.2.22749-22751

Aich, R.S. & Chakraborty, P. (2022). Kamot: The first academic investigation of human-shark conflict in Sundarbans. TRACE: Journal for Human-Animal Studies, 8: 103-129. https://doi.org/10.23984/fjhas.110497

Roberts, T.R., Chakraborty, P., Yardi, K. & Mukherjee, P. (2021). Oryzias andrewi, new species of slender ricefish from Bengal, India, related to the highly specialized western indian coastal Horaichthys setnai Kulkarni 1940 (Cyprinodontiformes, Adrianichthyidae). aqua, 27(1): 21-32. [PDF]

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