Dhananjai Mohan, IFS

Dhananjai Mohan is a member of 1988 batch of Indian Forest Service, Uttarakhand cadre, India presently serving as Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Wildlife administration, conservation and intelligence in the office of Chief Wildlife Warden, Uttarakhand.

He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur. He has managed protected areas in undivided UP and written management plans for many of them. He did his Post-Graduate Diploma in Wildlife Management in the year 1992. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree on ‘Habitat selection of birds in New Forest, Dehradun, India’ by Forest Research Institute University, Dehradun.

He served as an Associate Professor in the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun from 1998 to 2004 dealing with the subject of wildlife conservation. He served as Professor in the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun from 2006 to 2013 where he led research on Himalayan birds which included a collaborative project with University of Chicago on Himalayan bird diversity gradient. He has written a book and contributed a book chapter and has many scientific publications particularly on avifauna his primary interest. Some of these were published in leading international journals like Nature, American naturalist, Journal of Ornithology and Biology letters. Dhananjai is a life member of Bombay Natural History Society and has contributed to many of the publications from the society relating to avifaunal conservation in India. He has been a recipient of Dr Salim Ali fellowship of Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India in 2005.