Meghna Krishnadas

Meghna is a physician by training, and began volunteering to conduct wildlife surveys in the Western Ghats and Eastern Himalaya, while also being a doctor to local communities. Volunteering activities with Centre for Wildlife Studies and Nature Conservation Foundation helped her appreciate the importance of science in conservation, and forced a change in her career goal. Meghna joined the Masters course in Wildlife Biology and Conservation in order to acquire the skills necessary to practice science based conservation. She is interested in primates in rainforest, and after the course hopes to work in the rainforests in the Western Ghats. Meghna is a frequent writer in newspapers on conservation issues.

Nishant M Srinivasaiah

Nishant was a dairy technologist by training, before he joined the Masters course in Wildlife Biology and Conservation. As a volunteer with A Rocha-India, Nishant studied Human-elephant conflict at Bannerghatta National park, with Nityatha Foundation, he looked at age and sex classification of elephants from Bandipur, with ANCF, he worked on Human elephant conflict at Bannerghatta national park and biometry of camp elephants in Nagarahole National Park and with JNCASR, he looked at social organization of elephants and laterality in elephants at Nagarahole National Park. Nishant has also actively campaigned against ill-planned and unjustifiable capture and translocation of elephants in Kodagu district of south India. He is in no doubt about his career – it is in the study and conservation of Asian elephants. Nishant joined the course to equip himself with the tools necessary for this career.