2017-10-01 Sanctuary Asia

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Malaika Vaz

Kalyan Varma

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Vaishali Rawat

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Sheren Shreshta

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He is an award-winning wildlife photographer, fi lmmaker

and conservationist specialising in environment, ecology

and conservation in India. He freelances with many of

the world’s leading magazines, environmental NGOs and

television channels like Nat Geo and BBC.

A conservationist working with WWF Nepal, and based

in Kathmandu, he has previously been associated with

premier wildlife organisations in India. His interests

include human-wildlife confl ict mitigation, and using

communications as a tool for conservation..

Twenty-year-old Malaika is a Goa-based adventure sports

athlete, social entrepreneur and wildlife fi lmmaker. She is the

Project Leader for The Manta Trust in India, and Director of

the 2018 Indo-Pak Climate Peace student conference.

Currently working on conservation media, writing

stories and communicating science with the Wildlife

Conservation Society, India, she aims to support

conservation advocacy through her writing and blogs at

scribblesfromelsewhere.blogspot.com.

“No artist is greater than the one we know
as nature. What we need is the vision to
frame the every day beauty that we see
around us,” says photographer Gaurav Bipin
Gharat, who used a torch to backlit this
gecko in Matheran. This image is one among
more than 5,000 entries received this year
for the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography
Awards, which the team shortlisted down to
around 250 over three weeks. The judges
had a tough time choosing this year’s
winners, a whiff of whom, you can fi nd on
page 12.