Our Team

Dr. Kalsi has left an indelible mark in the field of wildlife science and academia throughout his impressive four-decade career. His pioneering research projects have provided invaluable insights into various facets of wildlife biology, showcasing his unwavering dedication and fervour for the subject.

Dr. Kalsi's impact in the field is not only marked by his extensive travels and influential role as a respected figure in seminars, workshops, and as a guest speaker, but also by the publication of two authoritative books on avian species and a multitude of research papers in esteemed international and national journals. His contributions have significantly enriched the field, leaving a lasting impression on his peers and colleagues.

Through his dedication and expertise, Dr. Kalsi has become a key figure in ornithology and wildlife conservation.

Furthermore, his involvement with professional organisations within the field and his role as a reviewer for esteemed journals such as Forest Ecology and Management, the Italian Journal of Zoology, and the Journal of Threatened Taxa stand as a testament to his expertise and standing within the scientific community. 

A renowned ornithologist in Jharkhand, holding a postgraduate degree in Zoology and a Doctorate in the Study of Birds from Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag. His thesis focused on the avian diversity of Bokaro District.

He has made significant contributions to bird observation reports and guided many birders. As a member of the IBCN - BNHS, he has presented numerous research papers at national and international conferences. His published works include studies on the avian diversity of Udhuwa Lake Bird Sanctuary, the first breeding record of the Lesser Adjutant in Bokaro District, and reports on the Asian Water Bird Census in Jharkhand.

He has authored several important papers and contributed to the biodiversity documentation of Jharkhand. His involvement as a resource person in nature camps organized by WWF and the forest department has been noteworthy.

Through his dedication and expertise, Mr. Dwivedi has become a key figure in ornithology and wildlife conservation in Jharkhand.

 He has received accolades such as the Best Resource Person Award by WWF Bokaro Unit in 2006 and the "Pratibha Samman" in 2012. Mr. Dwivedi has also conducted training programs for forest guards on bird identification, organized by the DFO Jamtada and Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary. 

He is a renowned career strategist, business mentor, trainer and writer. Having the post graduate qualifications in the field of IT, management and psychology, Mr Singh has been an academician by profession till 2017 after which he has been keenly involved in taking motivational and subject based sessions & workshops in various academic and corporates.

He has been mentoring various start-ups and businesses for their ideation and growth. He is also helping people in nurturing their hobbies and passion. He also conducts one-to-one counselling for individual development.

Having an experience of more than 25 years, he is multi-talented person who has composed various poetry titles in Hindi & English, and is also writing crime thrillers for movies. He is a regular expert panelist on various media channels such as News India, India News, India Watch, Live Today, Zee UP, Zee Salaam, Bharat Samachar, Doordarshan and Akashvani to name a few.

He has to his credit many books on IT, management and life skills. He is associated with academic institutions as academic advisor, and conducts training workshops for students, parents and teachers. He is associated with professional bodies such as NIPM, ISTD, LMA, CSI, AKWL.

He is a retired Indian Air Force Officer and a self taught photographer. In the last 17 years since he bought his first D-SLR, he has delved into multiple genres of photography. However, over the last several years, he developed special interest and expertise in landscape and Wide-field Astrophotography. His passion for shooting star trails and wide field astro-landscapes has ensured that he has travelled to the farthest corners of the country from the Himalayas to Kanyakumari and from Nagaland to Gujarat and Rajasthan in search of dark skies. He has written a couple of e-books on shooting star trails and the Milky Way. 

His images have been published in magazines like Asian Photography, Smart Photography, Chiz, Bon, etc. and have also received several awards in national and international exhibitions and photo salons. 

She is a Zoologist by training and teaching Post-graduate students. In her growing up years she developed a keen interest in animals and pursued wildlife observation and study. Working on different taxa of animals from Elephants to reptiles to birds she has explored the forests of Odisha. 

Pursuing her doctoral work on Birds of Koraput in Odisha she was drawn into ornithology and has been documenting and studying birds since then. 

She has been involved in conducting nature awareness walks and workshops for citizens of Bhubaneswar. 

She is working as an Assistant Professor of Zoology at C.V. Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar, and would like to explore more about the wildlife of lesser explored areas of Odisha and also study Urban Wildlife. Her core interest lies in eduating and awaring the posterity on nature and conservation.

She has been a reviewer and editor for eBird a citizen science initiative by Cornell Lab of Ornithology for the state of Odisha. 

Arnab Basu, is an environmentalist by training and profession and a wildlife enthusiast by hobby. He has more than two decades of experience in advisory work on sustainability, nature-based solution, and environmental law. He did his graduation in Botany from University of Calcutta and post-graduation in Environment Management from Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management (IISWBM), Calcutta. He also holds a post graduate diploma in Environmental Law from National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore.

As part of his academic and voluntary work, he conducted assessment of urban and sub urban biodiversity at Kolkata, Salt Lake Wetland, South Bengal (West Bengal). He conducted Study on Joint Forest Management and Wild Life in South West Bengal under the supervision of Department of Forest, Govt. of West Bengal and under the joint guidance of Environment Management department of IISWBM and National Afforestation and Eco-development Board, Govt. of India. He also has successfully completed jungle survival course under Jungle Survival Academy of India.

For his hobby he has travelled across more than two-hundred eco-tourism destinations of seven countries in three continents. These include Western Himalayas of India and Eastern Himalayas of Bhutan and North-East India; Western Ghats; Central India and Eastern Ghats; Sub-Himalayan Terai region of India and Nepal; Mangroves of India, and Bangladesh; Tundra region of Scottish Highland; Rain Forest of Sumatra; Desert of Kutch and Western India; and Savannah of South Africa. 

 Previously he authored couple of books on contemporary sustainability and environmental justice related issues, such as The Journey through Holocene: National and Global situation of sustainability in this decade (2010-2020), and A Silver Lining in the “Ease of Doing Business” Conundrum: India’s One and Only Green Tribunal. He has also published multiple articles on wildlife, nature-based solution, ecotourism, sustainability and environmental issues in various national and international magazines. 

Ishani Chakraborty is an academician by profession. She is a versatile author who has published many articles, business case studies and research papers in national and international publishing houses. Some of her manuscripts are published in Scopus indexed

journals. At leisure, she writes fiction stories. You can read some of her stories at Pratilipi platform.

With a career span of more than 17 years, she loves to write, train and mentor students across academia and industry.

Content creation is her passion and she experiments

with this across different forms – text, audio & video.

She is a naturalist in her own terms. She shares her love for travel, gardening and conservation of nature through her vlogs and blogs.

You can follow her on YouTube and Instagram . connect @travelwithishani

She is one of the pillar of Exploring Nature and Volenterily leading the “Jungle Chimes” Platform & handles Corporate Communications. 

Creative writer, former marketing and communications professional, a Nature lover settled in Singapore.

Rhea is a postgraduate in Human Resource Management and after completing her course she worked for ICFAI and Amity Business Schools authoring case studies for management students that were published on an international platform. Later she joined the CSR unit of Lifestyle retail in Mumbai (LIFE Foundation) where she worked as a Communications manager and developed training and marketing content. She also worked for Toolbox India Foundation where she developed case studies on consulting work undertaken by Toolbox for other NGOs. She took a sabbatical after that due to parenting and caregiving responsibilities. She has been involved with an international HR community in Hong Kong and Singapore since 2022 where she moved later and she helps out with events and content creation from time to time. She is currently based in Singapore.

Rhea is a people's person, has a creative bent of mind, is a nature lover and an aspiring entrepreneur!

She is an engineer by training and a senior banker by profession. Her interest in forests and wildlife started from going on birding trips with her husband.From visiting the Shibpur Botanical Garden in Howrah and Chintamani Kar Bird Sanctuary in Baruipur,it started as a recreation and then went on to become her passion. Family trips became wildlife expeditions. From the tropical forests of Uttarakhand to the Chhotanagpur plateau, to the northeast mountains, she kept on moving more towards her passion.

But she realised soon that although wildlife was the key to the balance of survival, we are hell bent on exploiting it rather than conserving it. This made her feel helpless as the situation of wildlife in India is pathetic. So, she now wants to make a change among people so that they understand the importance of wildlife. 

Since then she has been working towards creating awareness on a small scale. Reaching out to people to make them realise how exploitation of nature will ultimately finish everything.

So she feels that this platform will create awareness on a much larger scale and spread knowledge and enthusiasm about the importance of the flora and fauna around us. 

He is an engineer by training. His interest in forests and wildlife started from visiting the Shibpur Botanical Garden (Howrah, India) and having the chance of observing the birds, mammals, reptiles and the beautiful seasonal changes. With time, he moved a bit further and was drawn by the hornbills of Arunachal's Pakke Tiger Reserve. He went for the hornbills but there he learnt about people. Upayan's interest shifted to the cultural diversity of indigenous communities who live at the fringes of India's forests.

He has been working towards documenting the memories of the forest that elder tribesmen hold in their minds. Their traditions and folklore, that hold immense wealth as storehouse of indigenous wisdom is now his primary focus. Today, he is as intrigued by India's biological diversity as he is interested in exploring the cultural diversity that has safeguarded India's biodiversity over eons.

Samrat is an MBA graduate & works as an IT Professional. Hailing from the eastern part of India, now settled in Delhi NCR, he had completed his Basic Mountaineering (BMC, Darjeeling) & Advance Mountaineering Course (AMC) from Himalayan Institute of Mountaineering & DMAS (now ABMAS, Manali) before he turned 20! 

Having been exposed to hiking in the Himalayas from an early age, his love for mountains only increased with each passing day. He has summited Frey Peak (6010 mt, Sikkim), Friendship Peak (5287 mt, Manali), Seven sisters (4724 mt, Manali), Stok Kangri (6153 mt, Ladak), Kang Yatse II (6200 mt, Ladak) and Everest Base Camp (5364 mt, in Khumbhu region). He has participated in multiple expeditions with YHAI & Bikat Adventures in the Indian Himalayas. He is an active volunteer in Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF), South Delhi.

He is also a wildlife enthusiast, with a particular interest in Himalayan bird photography. 

Samrat aims to keep venturing into the wilderness to discover & re-discover his interest in mountains & colourful Himalayan birds.

An avid nature lover, a wildlife enthusiast, a bird and wildlife photographer from Bihar settled in Meghalaya, India.

A self taught photographer who wants to share the beauty of nature & wildlife, want to inspire the aspiring nature lovers & photographers to capture moments and expressions in the wild which will in turn make people fall in love with the wild.

Being a nature and wildlife lover, she have found a special interest in birds when she had rescued an injured swallow and took care of it till rehabilitation. Thereafter, she started taking keen interest in bird photography and documenting their behavior with her camera.

Her aim is to inspire the common people into conservation of habitats making our planet a beautiful one.

In her own words:

I am a banker by profession and also love to do other art works like painting, cooking, etc. With my love, passion and enthusiasm for nature and wildlife, I want to create an awareness among the common people to love and respect nature which will in turn help protect the environment and habitat for wildlife.

 Bappa Debnath is an accomplished accountancy professional with a profound passion for nature and landscape photography. His dual expertise in the meticulous world of finance and the artistic realm of photography sets him apart as a multifaceted individual. Bappa's journey into photography began as a hobby, but his keen eye for capturing the beauty of the natural world quickly developed into a significant passion. He specializes in landscape photography, skillfully highlighting the intricate details and vast expanses of the great outdoors.

In addition to his professional achievements, Bappa plays a pivotal role in the photography community as the admin of the Exploring Nature Community Facebook Forum. beautiful one.

This platform, under his guidance, has become a thriving hub for nature enthusiasts and photographers from around the globe. Bappa's leadership fosters a supportive environment where members can share their work, exchange tips, and inspire one another.