Prerna Singh Bindra from

Gurgaon Gurgaon (), officially named Gurugram (), is a satellite city of Delhi and administrative headquarters of Gurgaon district, located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest ...

, India is one of India's leading environmental journalists and travel writers. She is also a visiting faculty member at

National Centre for Biological Sciences National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, is a research centre specialising in biological research. It is a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) under the Department of Atomic Energy of the Go ...

and has received the Carl Zeiss Wildlife Conservation Award.

Education

Prerna holds a Masters in Labour Welfare from Gujarat University and has done graduate work in Economics at St Xaviers (Ahmedabad).

Career

Author and writer

She started her career in management from

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as a

Research Associate Research associates are researchers (scholars and professionals) that usually have an advanced degree beyond a Bachelor's degree such as a master's degree or a PhD. In some universities/research institutes, such as Harvard/Harvard Medical Scho ...

. After she found that her true call calling was writing, she started writing from Sanctuary Asia. Later she worked on daily newspapers ''

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'', '' The Pioneer'', ''

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'' and others. Prerna authored more than 1,500 articles on nature and wildlife in mainstream media. Prerna took to concentrating on working with governments at the local, regional and federal levels, to conserve India's wildlife and wild habitats through policy and legal reform, the promotion of education and awareness, and by supporting effective action on the ground. She is the editor of Tigerlink, a journal which collates and analyses information about tigers from across their range countries.

Positions served

Prerna has served on the

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State Board for Wildlife and was a member of the

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and part of its core Standing Committee between 2010 and 2013. She is part of the team of the

National Tiger Conservation Authority The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is a wildlife conservation agency formed to protect the endangered Bengal tiger in India. It was established by the Government of India under Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in ...

(NTCA) to assess the management effectiveness of tiger reserves in an IUCN framework. She was part of the committee appointed by the Ministry of Tourism to study relevant issues concerning tourism and wildlife in

which ultimately led to the creation of buffers around reserves and guidelines for tourism for tiger reserves.

Awards

* 2007 ABN-AMRO Sanctuary Asia Wildlife Service Award, for in-depth and consistent coverage of conservation issues * 2007 Carl Zeiss Wildlife Conservation Award * 2012 Nominated for

International Visitor Leadership Program The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is a professional exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The mission of IVLP is to offer current and emerging international leader ...

* 2014 Chevening-Gurukul Scholarship for Leadership & Excellence

Books

* 2006 The King and I: Travels in Tigerland * 2010 Voices in the Wilderness * 2017 The Vanishing India's wildlife crisis. * 2017 When I Grow Up I Want to be a Tiger

References

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