Sanctuary Asia – July 2019

Anupam Singh Sisodia

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Subhashini Krishnan

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Anant Shankar

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Anant is an Indian Forest Service offi cer from the

Andhra Pradesh cadre. with a keen interest in wildlife

and climate change mitigation. As the DFO, Wildlife

Management, Rajamahendravaram, he oversees four

major PAs – Papikonda, Coringa, Kolleru and Krishna.

Subhashini is a Masters student at the Wildlife

Institute of India with a keen interest in mitigating

human-nature confl ict, and canid ecology and

evolution. She spends much of her time tracking paw

prints and howls in the wilderness.

Tarun holds a Masters degree from the National Centre

for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru. He now works with

the Centre for Ecology Development and Research

(CEDAR), Dehradun.

Anupam is a Programme Offi cer with Leadership for
Environment and Development – India. He is also an
avid traveller who is currently cataloguing the wildlife
Closely related to corals, this colony of of Chhattisgarh.
zoanthids thrives a few hundred metres
from the ongoing reclamation work at
Priyadarshini Park on Napean Sea Road.,
Mumbai. To add to the pollution and
sewage we have infl icted on them, we now
have plans to bury them alive.

The Coastal Road Project hailed as
ambitious and promising by the proponents
is not only myopic, but damaging for the
city of Mumbai. The intertidal zone including
the mangroves acts as a protective line of
defence against the vagaries of wind and
water, of which Mumbaikars are well aware.

The cover story (see page 22) and the
photofeature (see page 12) in this issue are
part of our eff orts to enlighten readers
about this existential environmental crisis.

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