DR. NISHITH DHARAIYA

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Pratik is the youngest founder and the director of the WCB Research Foundation. He is a budding wildlife scientist mostly working on mammals especially small carnivores and sloth bear. He is a good wildlife rescuer and volunteering with several organisations for wildlife rescue. He studied Indian fox in his masters and completed his M.Sc. in Zoology. Currently he works as a Junior Project Fellow in WCB’s Sloth bear conservation outreach project in central Gujarat.  

Dr. Nuria is an Associate Professor at Poland Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences at Krakow, Poland. She is a biologist, PhD in animal ecology. Her field of interest is animal ecology, large carnivore conservation, brown bear ecology and conservation policies. 

Dr. Rajesh Senma currently holds the position of Head of the Department of Zoology,

Government Science College Vankal, Surat (Gujarat). He holds a Doctorate from HNGU Patan specializing in the field of Ornithology. He is having experience of ten years of Undergraduate, and two years of experience in Post Graduate level teaching. He has also been serving as a member of the Board of Directors, AOZ Association of Zoologists. He has been invited as an expert in various census programs (Birds/Wild Ass/Sloth Bear) conducted by the Forest Department, Government of Gujarat.

Dr. Shivangi Mishra is a post doctoral associate at Arctic institute of North America,University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has completed her Ph.D. from Biodiversity & amp; Wildlife Conservation Lab, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow. She has four International and two National Awards and 24 research articles published in various National and International Journals.