Sanctuary Asia - April 2018

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Lalitha Krishnan

Kishor Rithe

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Fariman Salahshour

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NEHA SINHA
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Kishor Rithe gave up his secure job as a lecturer at an

engineering college to work full-time for wildlife conservation.

His grassroots level work as well as policy work through the

Satpuda Foundation in the past three decades has chalked

up several achievements in the central Indian landscape.

A practicing conservationist with the Bombay Natural

History Society and environmental commentator, Neha

Sinha has been guest faculty at Delhi University and

is particularly interested in environmental policy and

alternate sociologies of development.

Fariman Salahshour is a passionate wildlifer, photographer

and wildlife sketch artist. He is based out of Germany

and has travelled extensively across India, Iran, Indonesia,

Malaysia and Thailand to explore wildlife.

Lalitha Krishnan is a writer, photographer and trekker

with ‘no sense of direction’. After working with advertising

agencies in Mumbai and kitchens in Alaska, she has settled

in Uttarakhand.

These innocent coral polyps have picked
the mindlessly discarded plastic refuse as
substrate to which to latch on, marking
the beginning of what could possibly be, in
an ideal world, a long journey of growth,
exoskeleton formation and symbiotic
associations extending over thousands of
years. But our seas are very sick (see page
40). And the frivolous existence of this plastic
bottle symbolises the vast devastation that
we are wreaking upon all of the planet’s
marine and freshwater ecosystems.