Dr. Anish Andheria is the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Trust, a non-profit organization set up to preserve, protect and conserve wildlife and fight climate change. He is also a consultant with Sanctuary Asia, Asia’s leading wildlife magazine and has been awarded the prestigious Carl Zeiss Conservation Award 2008. He helped set up Kids for Tigers, a nation-wide conservation education programme which currently reaches out to over half a million school children every year.
After completing his Ph.D. from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, he went on to pursue a Masters Degree in Wildlife Biology and Conservation from the National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore.
He is a large carnivore specialist with field knowledge on predator-prey relationships. A wildlife photographer of repute, he has photographed some of the most remote wildlife reserves of India. He has also co-authored two books on Indian wildlife. He runs a wildlife rescue center in Mumbai for over two decades and is a Trustee of two organizations The Climate Project, India and the Conservation Wildlands Trust.
A natural communicator, he is one of India’s leading motivational speakers, and has introduced thousands of young persons to the joys of nature and the rationale for nature conservation.