People

The best part of field research is the friends you make. The team adds much more to one's life apart from the data, analyses and papers. It is the team that makes the journey worthwhile. This section concerns people who enrich life in the field and office! 

Current members

1. Rohit Naniwadekar (PI)

2. Arpitha Jayanth (Research Fellow)

3. Himanshu Lad (Field Manager)

4. Jithin Vijayan (Research Fellow)

5. Natasha Desai (Research Fellow)

6. Nayantara Biswas (Research Fellow)

7. Pooja Pawar (PhD Student)

8. Rintu Mandal (PhD Student)

9. Rohan Menzies (PhD Student)

10. Vignesh Chandran M (Research Fellow)

11. Vishal Sadekar (Project Manager)

Master's students

1. Bindu (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun)

2. Nandita Madhu (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun)

3. Rasika Kadam (Bhavan's College, Mumbai)

Collaborators

1. Anand Osuri (Scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation)

2. Aparna Watve (Bombay Environmental Action Group)

3. Bharti D K (Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology)

4. Hari Sridhar (Writer in Residence, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany)

5. Jahnavi Joshi (Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India)

6. Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi (Scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation)

7. Madhura Niphadkar (Independent Scientist)

8. Milind Patil (Proprietor, Sahyadri Bamboo Nursery and Conservationist)

9. Navendu Page (Scientist, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India)

10. Sartaj Ghuman (Freelance artist, writer, mountaineer, arborist and wildlife biologist)

11. Suri Venkatachalam

12. Varad Giri (Reliance Foundation)

13. Vidyadhar Atkore (Scientist, SACON)

Former members

1. Abhishek Gopal (Master's student, NCBS & Researcher)

2. Abir Jain (Master's student, WII)

3. Aditya Gadkari (Research Fellow)

4. Karthikayan M (Master's student, Pondicherry University)

5. Megha Rao (Research Fellow

6. Mohammad Mubeen Mustafa (Intern)

7. Siddharth Biniwale (Field Manager)

8. Vedika Dutta (Master's Student, TERI)

9. Yukti Taneja (Master's Student & Research Fellow)

10. Zankhna Patel (Master's Student, WII)