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A Cartoonist Draws for Wildlife Conservation: Meet Rohan Chakravarty

June 15, 2012 Wild Navigator 2 Comments

This week on our ‘Wild Mentors’ series our attention is on a young cartoonist who uses his artwork as an educative awareness tool for wildlife conservation. Meet Rohan Chakravarty, our Wild Navigator Wild Mentor. Combining his talent in art and the effects of green humour messages has certainly influenced many in the field of wildlife

Tiger Art: Painting the Stripes

March 15, 2012 Wild Navigator No comments

Born in an Indian rajput family, artist Ajay Singh Peelwa grew up in a surrounding of landowners and his ancestors were hunters in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Ajay’s creative soul was much different from his forefathers where he uses his talent of art to preserve the last remaining flora & fauna in the country. He

Campaigning for Cetacean Conservation: Meet Nicole McLachlan

February 23, 2012 Wild Navigator No comments

This week on our ‘Wild Mentors’ section our attention is on a young earth hero. A person who has in a very early life committed herself to saving the last remaining marine ecology that we have left in this planet. Wild Navigator welcomes Nicole McLachlan from Australia. Wild Navigator interview’s a Q/A session with Nicole:

Will tiger tourism help conservation? CNN-IBN chats with Abhishek Behl

October 26, 2011 Wild Navigator No comments

I am attaching this chat I had many years ago (2008) with India’s News Channel CNN-IBN and their environmental team. The Topic of the chat was ‘Will Tiger Tourism help Conservation.’ At that time I was heading the Travel Operators for Tigers India Wildlife Association in India as their Executive Director. All views expressed were

Pavan Sukhdev - on the invisible economy

September 13, 2011 Wild Navigator No comments

Pavan Sukhdev is the founder & chair of GIST Advisory, a consulting firm specializing in valuing & managing environmental impacts and dependencies at all levels - national, provincial, business and personal. This firm was set up by Pavan’s NGO, GIST (Green Indian States Trust) to fund its research into major economic externalities arising from natural capital and

Dr. Ullas Karanth speaks about Science of Saving Wild Tigers

September 06, 2011 Wild Navigator 1 Comment

Dr. K. Ullas Karanth obtained his MS degree in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Florida, USA in 1988 and his Doctorate in Applied Zoology from Mangalore University in 1993. Dr. Karanth is currently a Senior Conservation Scientist with the New York based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). He has conducted extensive long-term research on ecology

Meet Abhishek Behl

Hi, I'm Abhishek Behl - Founder & Chief Consulting Officer of Wild Navigator. In 2011 I launched Wild Navigator - THE site dedicated to the wilderness focused traveller. Wild Navigator highlights sustainable initiatives in wildlife tourism and biodiversity conservation by using wildlife travel blogging and social media. Wild Navigator also supports wilderness charities and their social campaigns. Our mission at Wild Navigator is to ensure you are an informed wilderness focused traveller. Read more....