The WTI Team

Abhishek Narayanan

A physiotherapist by training, Abhishek Narayanan has been working with WTI since 2011 and currently heads the Wild Rescue Division. With extensive experience in rescue and rehabilitation and wildlife and his medical background, he provides programmatic and technical inputs to the projects under wild rescue….. Read More

Amit Chaudhary

Born and brought up in Noida, Amit Chaudhary started his career with a national news channel later joined WTI in 2016 as Asst. Programme Officer in Admin & IT Division at Headquarters. He holds a Masters in Computer Applications and likes travelling, listening to music…. Read More

Amrit Govinda Menon

Amrit Menon joined WTI as a volunteer in 2009. For six years, Amrit worked with WTI’s WildAid team, reviewing proposals for small grants and planning and monitoring these projects which worked towards addressing wildlife emergencies across the country. Following this, he then shifted roles and is now heading the Executive Director’s Office as Officer in Charge…. Read More

Anson Philip

Anson Philip graduated from M G University, Kottayam, and moved to Delhi to work in the accounts team at WTI. Always smiling, Anson has an eye for detail – like every good accountant – and diligently reminds his colleagues – normally too busy with other things – to clear or collect all their dues.

Bloch Farukhkha Husenkha

Farukhkha Bloch hails from Gujarat, the westernmost state of India and Oregon since 1989. His home town is close to the GIR Lion sanctuary, the only refuge of Asiatic wild lions in the world. He has a Master degree in Sociology and is associated with Wildlife Trust of India since 2013 in the Whale Shark Conservation project and is responsible for the community outreach activities with fisher folks on Gujarat coast….. Read More

Charan Kumar Paidi

A certified SCUBA Diver, Charan Kumar joined WTI in 2016 after studying Marine Biology at Pondicherry University in Andaman. Currently, he works as a Field officer in the Whale Shark Conservation Project, Veraval, Gujarat. An enthusiastic SCUBA Diver passionate about conservation of marine species that comprise a huge part of wildlife on planet Earth.

Debobroto Sircar

Debobroto joined WTI in the year 2009. He was involved in carrying out conservation projects in the state of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, before moving to headquarters in 2011. Currently leading the Wild Aid Division of WTI, he coordinates with regional wildlife conservation organizations from all over India in providing key assistance to address wildlife emergencies…. Read More

Jate Rai

Jate Rai spent almost 3 decades working as an animal tracker in the Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar before joining Wildlife Trust of India during 2003-04. He has extremely sharp observations on wild animal tracks and signs and behaviour. He even follows tracks of rodents and insects.

Jeetendra Kumar Jakhmola

Hailing from the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, Jeetendra Kumar joined WTI in March 2006 as a Project Assistant in Van Rakshak Project (VRP) one of our earliest projects and long term commitment to the frontline forest staff VRP is also known as the Guardians of the Wild Division, at WTI Headquarters..Read More

Kalpana Gupta

Currently Programme Officer in Wildlife Trust of India since 2017 with an experience of 8 years in HR domain. With roots in the City of Temples, Jammu, she is an extrovert and loves to travel. She believes that “Every job is a self-portrait of a person who performs it”. And […]

Kaushik Deb

Kaushik Deb is an M.A in Sociology from Assam University, Silchar. He has more than 12 years of experience in working with rural/forest community. He joined WTI as a social scientist working in the Valmiki Tiger Reserve from where he has moved to the Greater Manas landscape….. Read More

Krishnendu Basak

Krishnendu Basak is a Postgraduate in Wildlife Sciences from Aligarh Muslim University and dedicated his 10 years in the field of wildlife conservation. He mostly worked on various large carnivore conservation projects that ranged from the rehabilitation of clouded leopards to population estimation and conflict mitigation of the Bengal tiger…. Read More

Madhumay Malik

Madhumay started with WTI in 2013 as an ERN member and as a consultant for the train-hit mitigation project in Odisha. he is currently working as a field officer conducting campaigns for the Central India Wild Buffalo Recovery Project. His area of interest and specialization lies in wild rescue and rehabilitation, especially with reptiles and birds… Read More

Mahendra Bhojram Raut

Mahendra joined WTI as a consultant in Central India Tiger Conservation Project in 2012 and currently works as Field Officer in Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme in the Tadoba Navegaon Corridor…. Read More

Mayukh Chatterjee

Mayukh is a trained Anthropologist, Primatologist, Ethologist, and a practising Wildlife Conservationist. An alumnus of the Department of Anthropology, Calcutta University and Delhi University, the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, he has also been a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, as well as of the prestigious DAAD (German), Academic Exchange Programme…… Read More

Prashant Kumar

Prashant joined WTI in January 2019 as an Assistant field officer in Wildlife Crime Control division. Prashant holds a Masters degree in Wildlife Forensics and specialises in Crime Scene Investigation. He has attended more than 150 Conferences and Seminars within India and visited all over India…… Read More

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Mishra

Dr Rajendra Prasad Mishra is the Coordinator in Species Recovery Division at the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and Regional Head- Central India. With over twenty-two years of research and project management experience in the fields of wildlife conservation & Management; Sustainable Forest Management (SFM);…. Read More

Sahil Mukesh Choksi

Sahil was introduced to wildlife and forests at a very young age which motivated him to actively participate in snake rescues and spreading awareness on snakes at a very early age. His interest grew with time so much that he decided to quit his 17 years of a corporate career and devote himself to biodiversity conservation….. Read More

Sajan John

Sajan John has a Master’s Degree in Marine Biology and joined WTI in 2014. He manages the marine projects of WTI which includes the Whale Shark Conservation Project along Gujarat, Kerala and Lakshadweep; the Coral Reef Recovery Project at Mithapur (Gujarat); Mangrove conservation project in North Kerala and Mobulid distribution Survey along the Indian coast.

Dr Samshul Ali

Samshul is a field wildlife veterinarian to reckon with. His role has placed him in some life-threatening situations involving wild carnivores, large mammals and agitated crowds. He has been actively conducting wildlife rescue, treatment and rehabilitation of many wild species in Assam under some very stressful situations….. Read More

Saymanti Bandyopadhyay

Saymanti joined WTI in June 2018 and is based out of WTI headquarters. She has worked in diverse profiles in her short career so far, including stints as a Resident Naturalist in Tadoba Andhari National Park, Associate Programme officer in rescue and rehabilitation of turtles, and as an Education Officer in a mini-zoo….. Read More

Sethu G

Sethu joined in Wildlife Trust of India in October 2017 as a field officer in the Whale Shark conservation project (Kerala & Lakshadweep). His education in Public Relations and Journalism with specialisation in mass communications and previous experience as a journalist will be an asset as WTI moves ahead with the whale shark project in Kerala and Lakshadweep.

Shalini Chaudhary

After completing her MBA (HR) & B.Sc. (Bio-Sci), Shalini joined WTI as a fresher and has been working as a Programme Officer in HR Division since December 2017. She loves music, she loves spending time at her home. She firmly believes that the ultimate goal of every human life is to eradicate suffering from the world to the best of one’s capacity and the same…. Read More

Snehaa Sundaram

Snehaa Sundaram, a free spirited Chennai girl joined Wildlife Trust Of India in 2017 under the Division Wild-Aid. Her passion for wildlife and inquisitiveness towards nature has only grown exponentially over the years. After her Bachelors in Zoology and Masters in Ecology, she began her career as a Naturalist in Kanha National Park which allowed her to delve deeper into the Sal forest landscape and its fauna…. Read More

Subrat Kumar Behera

Subrat joined Wildlife Trust of India in November 2010 immediately on completing Masters in Wildlife Science from North Orissa University, Odisha. He has been working towards recovery of Critically Endangered Gharial and conservation of other aquatic fauna in the Gandak River since 2014…… Read More

Sunil Kumar

Joined WTI in September 2017 as Senior Accounts Assistant. Experienced professional with over 10 years of experience in leading Financial Institutions and Educational Societies. Graduated in Economics from Panjab University. Interest – Listening to Music, Tracking, Sketching, Clay Craft.

Tahir Gazanfar

A trained mountaineer, skier, and adventurer Tahir joined WTI in 2017. Having two master’s degrees, Tahir has been actively involved in Wildlife conservation right from High school. With a master’s in zoology from Nagpur University, he specializes in forest entomology (Odonates), Man-animal Conflict mitigation…. Read More

Vibhor Choudhary

Vibhor did his post-graduation in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. His inclination towards strengthening human-wildlife coexistence in this era of development brought him to Wildlife Trust of India, where he has been working from 2018 as a field officer…. Read More

ABOUT TEAM WTI

What began as a three-member team in a small room in south Delhi in 1998, is today a family of about 150 professionals from diverse backgrounds - conservation biologists, scientists, sociologists, wildlife veterinarians, managers, lawyers, finance experts and communication specialists - but committed to the common cause of wildlife. They are based in any of the 15 field stations in remote parts of the country and a central coordinating office in the national capital region. An Executive Management Team comprising experienced conservationists, scientists and managers provide a visionary leadership to the vibrant and enthusiastic WTI team. The Board of Trustees of WTI comprises stalwarts who bring together a collective experience of many decades in the field of conservation, education and management.