People & Organizations
| Organization Name | Organization Type | Region/State | Contact person | Email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action for Protection of Wild Animals (APOWA) | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Bijaya Kabi | mail@apowa.org |
| Alacrity | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Kalpana Mallik | alacrity34@yahoo.co.in |
| Amphibia and Reptile Research Organisation of Sri Lanka (ARROS) | Non-governmental organisation | Sri Lanka | Anslem de Silva | anslem@med.pdu.ac.lk |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands Department of Environment and Forests | Government | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | Principal Chief Conservator of Forests | pccf@and.nic.in, pccfani@gmail.com |
| Andaman Nicobar Environment Team (ANET) | Non-governmental organisation | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | Adhith Swaminathan | info@anetindia.org |
| Andhra Pradesh Forest Department | Government | Andhra Pradesh | Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (WL) & Chief Wildlife Warden | proccf_wlcww_apfd@ap.gov.in |
| Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) | Non-governmental organisation | Karnataka | Kartik Shanker | kshanker@ces.iisc.ernet.in |
| Balochistan Forest and Wildlife Department | Government | Pakistan | Chief Conservator of Forests | - |
| Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) | Non-governmental organisation | Maharashtra | Varad Giri | info@bnhs.org varadgiri@gmail.com |
| Canara Green Academy | Non-governmental organisation | Karnataka | Ravi Pandit | mail@greenacademy.org |
| Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) | Research & Educational Institute | Kerala | M.R. Bhoopendranath | root@cift.ker.nic.in |
| Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) | Research & Educational Institute | Kerala | M. Rajagopalan | mdcmfri@md2.vsnl.net.in |
| Centre for Advanced Research in Natural Resources & Management (CARINAM) | Non-governmental organisation | Bangladesh | S.M.A. Rashid | carinam@citecho.net |
| Centre for Advanced Studies in Marine Biology (CASMB) | Research & Educational Institute | Tamil Nadu | Ajmal Khan | cdl_aucasmb@sancharnet.in |
| Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) | Research & Educational Institute | Andhra Pradesh | Ramesh K. Agarwal | rameshka@ccmb.res.in |
| Centre for Environment and Education (CEE), Ahmedabad | Non-governmental organisation | Gujarat | E.K. Nareswar | ceeindia@vsnl.com |
| Centre for Environment and Education (CEE), Chennai | Non-governmental organisation | Tamil Nadu | N. Ramjee | n.ramjee@ceeindia.org |
| Centre for Environment and Education (CEE), Goa | Non-governmental organisation | Goa | Sujeet Kumar Dongre | ceegoa@ceeindia.org |
| Dakshin Foundation | Non-governmental organisation | Karnataka | Kartik Shanker / Naveen Namboothri | info@dakshin.org |
| Department of Environmental Sciences, Andhra University | Research & Educational Institute | Andhra Pradesh | P.S. Raja Sekhar | sekharpsr@hotmail.com |
| Department of Marine Biology, Karnataka University | Research & Educational Institute | Karnataka | V.N. Nayak | venkatray@hotmail.com |
| Department of Marine Sciences, Berhampur University | Research & Educational Institute | Odisha | R.C. Panigrahy | rcpanigraphy@yahoo.com |
| Department of Zoology, Utkal University | Research & Educational Institute | Odisha | S.K. Dutta | skdutta@yahoo.com |
| Field Services and Inter-cultural Learning | Non-governmental organisation | Karnataka | Rakesh Soans | rakeshsoans@fsl-india.org |
| Forest Department, Government of Goa | Government | Goa | Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests | shashikr@hotmail.com |
| GEER Foundation | Government | Gujarat | Director | geer@guj.nic.in |
| Green Habitat | Non-governmental organisation | Kerala | James N.J. | greenhabitatguruvayoor@gmail.com |
| Green Life Rural Association (GLRA) | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Sovakar Behera | wildlife_sovakar@yahoo.co.in, greenlife_turtle@hotmail.com |
| Green Mercy | Non-governmental organisation | Andhra Pradesh | K.V. Ramanamurthy | green333mercy@gmail.com |
| Greenpeace-India | Non-governmental organisation | Karnataka | Sanjiv Gopal / Ashish Fernandes | sgopal@dialb.greenpeace.org, ashish.fernandes@gmail.com |
| Gujarat Forest Department | Government | Gujarat | Principal Chief Conservator of Forests | ifdp-comp@gujarat.gov.in |
| Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology (GUIDE) | Non-governmental organisation | Gujarat | Director | desert_ecology@yahoo.com, guide@gujaratdesertecology.com |
| Green Future Foundation | Non-governmental organisation | Gujarat | Wesley Sunderraj | wesley.s@rediffmail.com |
| Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Trust (GoMBRT) | Government | Tamil Nadu | S. Ramasubraniam | gombrt_rnd@yahoo.co.in |
| International Collective in Support of Fishworkers | Non-governmental organisation | Tamil Nadu | Venugopal | icsf@icsf.net |
| IUCN, The World Conservation Union - Pakistan | Non-governmental organisation | Pakistan | Mohummad Tahir Qureshi | tahir.qureshi@khi.iucnp.org |
| Kalpavriksh: Environment Action Group | Non-governmental organisation | Maharashtra | Ashish Kothari | kalpavriksh@vsnl.net |
| Karnataka Forest Department | Government | Karnataka | Principal Chief Conservator of Forests & Chief Wildlife Warden | pccfwl@gmail.com |
| Kerala Forests and Wildlife Department | Government | Kerala | Principal Chief Conservator of Forests & Chief Wildlife Warden | pccf@forest.kerala.gov.in |
| Lakshadweep Department of Environment and Forests | Government | Lakshadweep | Deputy Conservation of Forests | lk-dcf@laksha.nic.in, drsayedalik@gmail.com |
| Lakshadweep Marine Research and Conservation Centre (LMRCC) | Non-governmental organisation | Lakshadweep | Jafer Hisham | jaferhisham@gmail.com |
| Maa Ganga Devi Santhi Maitri Yuvak Sanga | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Budhhimantha Rao | - |
| Madras Crocodile Bank Trust | Non-governmental organisation | Tamil Nadu | Gowri Mallapur | mcbtindia@gmail.com |
| Maharashtra Forest Department | Government | Maharashtra | Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (WL) | pccfwl_ngp@sancharnet.in |
| Marine Product Export Development Authority (MPEDA) | Government | Kerala | J. Ramesh | mpeda@mpeda.nic.in |
| Marine Turtle Conservation Action | Non-governmental organisation | Kerala | Jayakumar C. | nccouncil@hotmail.com |
| Marinelife Alliance | Non-governmental organisation | Bangladesh | M. Zahirul Islam | marinelife_al@yahoo.com |
| Naythal | Non-governmental organisation | Kerala | Sudheer Kumar P.V. | sudheer_nlr@yahoo.com |
| National Aquatic Resources Agency (NARA) | Research & Educational Institute | Sri Lanka | D. Amarasooriya | amara@nara.ac.lk |
| National Institute for Coastal and Marine Biodiversity | Research & Educational Institute | Tamil Nadu | K. Sivakumar | nicmb@sancharnet.in |
| National Institute of Ocean Technology | Research & Educational Institute | Tamil Nadu | Prabhakar Mishra | mishra@icmam.gov.in |
| National Institute of Oceanography | Research & Educational Institute | Goa | Director | ocean@nio.org |
| National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) | Government | Andhra Pradesh | S. Sasmal | nrsa@nrsa.gov.in |
| Nature Environment and Wildlife Society (NEWS) | Non-governmental organisation | West Bengal | Biswajit Ray Chowdhury/ Indira Bhattacharya | - |
| Odisha Department of Forest and Environment | Government | Odisha | Additional Chief Secretary U.N. Behera | fesec.or@nic.in |
| Orissa Krushak Mahasangh | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Jeewan B. Das / Banka Behary Das | - |
| Orissa Marine Resources Conservation Consortium (OMRCC) | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Mangaraj Panda | uaaorissa@gmail.com |
| Orissa Remote Sensing Application Centre | Government | Odisha | G. Behera | orsac@dte.vsnl.net.in |
| Orissa Traditional Fish Workers' Union | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | K. Aleya | otfwu@hotmail.com |
| Pakistan Wetlands Programme, Ministry of Environment, Pakistan | Government | Pakistan | Ahmad Khan | akhan@wwf.org.pk |
| Peera Jahania Fish Workers' Union | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Dharmananda Malik | - |
| Podampeta Ecotourism and Olive Ridley Protection Club | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | D. Himanshu | |
| Prakruti Nature Club | Non-governmental organisation | Gujarat | Dinesh Goswami/ Jignesh Gohil | dineshgoswami2008@gmail.com, jignesh.gohil2009@gmail.com |
| Project Swarajya | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Ashis Senapati | senapatiashis@rediffmail.com |
| Puducherry Department of Forest and Wildlife | Government | Puducherry | Chief Conservator of Forests & Chief Wildlife Warden | dcf.pon@nic.in |
| Rushikulya Sea Turtle Protection Committee (RSTPC) | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Rabindranath Sahu | turtle_rushikulya@yahoo.co.in |
| Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra | Non-governmental organisation | Maharashtra | Vishwas D. Katdare | sahyadricpn@gmail.com |
| Sea Turtle Action Programme | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Bichitrananda Biswal | bichi_devimouth@yahoo.in |
| Sindh Wildlife Department | Government | Pakistan | Fehmida Firdaus | fasrar@sindhwildlife.com |
| State Institute of Fisheries Technology (SIFT) | Research & Educational Institute | Andhra Pradesh | M. Anantha Raju | sift_kkd@pol.net.in |
| Students' Sea Turtle Conservation Network (SSTCN) | Non-governmental organisation | Tamil Nadu | Akila Balu / V. Arun | sstcnchennai@gmail.com |
| Suganthi Devadason Marine Research Institute (SDMRI) | Research & Educational Institute | Tamil Nadu | J.K. Patterson Edward | jkpatty@hotmail.com |
| Tamil Nadu Forest Department | Government | Tamil Nadu | Principal Chief Conservator of Forests & Chief Wildlife Warden | cwlwchen@tn.nic.in |
| Theeram Prakruthi Samrakhana Samiti | Non-governmental organisation | Kerala | Suresh M.T | - |
| TREE Foundation (Trust for Environmental Education) | Non-governmental organisation | Tamil Nadu | Supraja Dharini | treefoundation2002@gmail.com |
| Turtle Conservation Project (TCP) | Non-governmental organisation | Sri Lanka | Thushan Kapursinghe / Lalith Ekanayake | turtle@sltnet.lk |
| Department of Environment, Bangladesh | Government | Bangladesh | M. Zahirul Islam | marinelife_al@yahoo.com |
| United Artists' Association | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Mangaraj Panda | uaaorissa@gmail.com |
| Visakha Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (VSPCA) | Non-governmental organisation | Andhra Pradesh | Pradeep Kumar Nath | vspcadeep@yahoo.co.in |
| Wild Orissa | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Non-governmental organisation | wildorissa@hotmail.com |
| Wildlife Institute of India | Research & Educational Institute | Uttarakhand | B.C. Choudhury, Bivash Pandav & Suresh Kumar | bcc@wii.gov.in, pandavb@hotmail.com, suresh@wii.gov.in |
| Wildlife Protection Society of India | Non-governmental organisation | New Delhi | Belinda Wright | wpsi@vsnl.com |
| Wildlife Society of Orissa | Non-governmental organisation | Odisha | Biswajit Mohanty | kachhapa@gmail.com |
| World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan | Non-governmental organisation | Pakistan | Ahmad Khan | info@wwf.org.pk |
| WWF-India | Non-governmental organisation | New Delhi | Sejal Wohrah | sworah@wwfindia.net |
| Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) | Government | West Bengal | K. Venkataraman | dirzsi@wb.nic.in |
| Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology | Non-governmental organisation | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | Samir Acharya | samiracharya.sane@gmail.com |
| Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Sciences | Research & Educational Institute | Karnataka | Kartik Shanker | kshanker@ces.iisc.ernet.in |
| Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON) | Research & Educational Institute | Tamil Nadu | S. Bhupathy | salimali@sacon.in |
| Name | Organisation | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aarthi Sridhar | Dakshin Foundation | India | aarthi77@gmail.com |
| Anslem de Silva | Amphibia and Reptile Research Organisation of Sri Lanka (ARROS) | Sri Lanka | anslem@med.pdu.ac.lk |
| Ashish Fernandes | Greenpeace India | India | ashish.fernandes@in.greenpeace.org |
| Sanjiv Gopal | Greenpeace India | India | sgopal@dialb.greenpeace.org |
| Basudev Tripathy | Wildlife Institute of India | India | tripathyb@yahoo.co.uk |
| Belinda Wright | Wildlife Protection Society of India | India | bwright@wpsi-india.org |
| Biswajit Mohanty | Wildlife Society of Orissa | India | kachhapa@gmail.com |
| Bivash Pandav | Wildlife Institute of India | India | bivash.pandav@wii.gov.in |
| B.C. Choudhury | Wildlife Institute of India (Retd) | India | bcchoudhury77@gmail.com |
| Chandrasekhar Kar (Late) | Forest Department, Government of Orissa | India | |
| Sudhakar Kar | Forest Department, Government of Orissa | India | kar.sudhakar@gmail.com |
| Kartik Shanker | Dakshin Foundation / Centre for Ecological Sciences | India | kshanker@ces.iisc.ernet.in |
| Lalith Ekanayake | Turtle Conservation Project | Sri Lanka | lalith_eml@yahoo.com |
| M. R. Bhoopendranath | Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) | India | root@cift.ker.nic.in |
| Rohan Arthur | Nature Conservation Foundation | India | rohan@ncf-india.org |
| Romulus Whitaker | Madras Crocodile Bank Trust | India | kingcobra@gmail.com |
| S. Bhupathy (Late) | SACON | India | |
| Sanjay Upadhyay | Enviro-Legal Defence Firm | India | admin@eldfindia.com |
| Sejal Worah | WWF-India | India | sworah@wwfindia.net |
| Shekar Dattatri | Independent film maker | India | shekar.dattatri@gmail.com |
| S.M.A. Rashid | Centre for Advanced Research in Natural Resources & Management | Bangladesh | carinam95@yahoo.com |
| Sudarshan Rodriguez | Independent Researcher/ Marine Conservation Analyst | India | sudarshan.rodriguez@gmail.com |
| Thushan Kapursinghe | Turtle Conservation Project | Sri Lanka | turtle@sltnet.lk |
| Varad Giri | Bombay Natural History Society | India | varadgiri@gmail.com |
| Wesley Sundarraj | India | wesley.s@rediffmail.com | |
| Zahirul Islam | Marine Life Alliance | Bangladesh | marinelife.al@yahoo.com |
| Suresh Kumar | Wildlife Institute of India | India | suresh@wii.gov.in |
| M. Muralidharan | Dakshin Foundation | India | muralim86@gmail.com |
| Sajan John | Wildlife Trust of India | India | sajanjohn09@gmail.com |
| Ema Fatima | WWF-India | India | fatimaema@gmail.com |
| Andrea Phillot | Bangladesh | ||
| Adhith Swaminathan | Dakshin Foundation | India | adhith.me@gmail.com |