August 2010: Driven by a passion for protecting wildlife, Kirat Singh, is about to join Cornell University. He won a ‘Special Tiger Award’ during the Sanctuary-RBS Wildlife Award ceremony in 2005, and stands apart from most others

June 2010: Dignified. Passionate. Intelligent. Knowledgeable. Dr. Karan Singh is all these things and more. He was present at the creation of Project Tiger in 1973 and was among those who forced the world to accept India’s leadership on the issue of tiger protection. 

April 2010:President of the WILD Foundation for 26 years,he is the face of one of the world’s most respected programmes,the World Wilderness Congress,which has a track record of influencing governments,

February 2010: She did her Ph.D on the Foundations of Quantum Theory on Hidden Variables and Non Locality in Quantum Theory. She then abandoned academics in 1982 to start the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology(RFSTE)

December 2009: A pahadi (man of the mountains) Brijendra Singh grew up in the hills of Garhwal and Kumaon where he and his wife Dawn have protected wildlife for decades.  A world-renowned Corbett expert, Member,  National Board of Wildlife and the National Tiger Conservation

October 2009: In a recent interview to Tehelka, Jairam Ramesh, an economist by profession, said that India’s Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 was sacrosanct.That saving tigers saves forests, saving snow leopards saves Himalayan ecosystems and saving river dolphins

June 2009: Too young to be called an ‘old India hand’, U.K. based Debbie Banks does nevertheless have years of India-experience under her belt, working consistently to protect India’s tigers from vanishing down the tubes in China. Tough, (very) likeable and persistent, Banks has all the qualities that  the

April 2009: She grew up in a London suburb, probably one of the least biodiversity-rich places in the U.K., and had little connection with nature through school, family or friends. Yet, she is amongst the most effective natural history and conservation communicators on the planet today. Armed with a BSc/MSc in

February 2009: A conservation biologist, her thesis was on Amazonian primates at the world-famous Jersey Zoo.  She is currently CNN-IBN’s Environment Editor and her work resulted in the channel winning the Sanctuary-RBS Wind Under the Wings Award 2008.  A recipient of over six national and international awards, she

December 2008: Driven by a passion for and dedication to wildlife, Dr.Yadvendradev V. Jhala (joint-winner with Dr.Qamar Qureshi of a Sanctuary-RBS Wildlife Service Award, 2008)is one of India’s most outstanding field biologists. He met Bittu Sahgal and spoke about the origins of his interest