Kushagra MESHRAM

Kushagra hails from a remote region of Chhattisgarh in India. With his bachelor’s in Forestry and training as a wildlife biologist at the Wildlife Institute of India, he studied satellite collared elephants’ movement and habitat use in Central-Indian landscape for his Master’s dissertation. His work with elephants motivated him to explore questions related to landscape level conservation and protected area management. Subsequently, he studied “Peripheries of Protected Areas in India” through a geospatial lens for his diploma in Environmental Law and Policy. He is involved in capacity building of the forest department personnel in India and supplements policy formulation in his home state. He enjoys wildlife photography and tracking large mammals on foot. He is also the founder of Rewild Education – a network of wildlife biologists committed to science communication. His current research interests include combining protected area management, conservation education and sustainable tourism from an applied perspective while building upon his previous work to help policy formulation and mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation in various sectors.