An ardent wildlife biologist and conservationist, Dr. Sandeep Kumar Tiwari has been working on wildlife research and conservation for over 14 years now.
As a manager in Wild Lands programme in WTI, Sandeep heads the National Elephant Corridor Project and has been instrumental in identification, ground-truthing, and securing vital and high-priority elephant corridors throughout the country. He co-authored the book that brings together, for the first time, a comprehensive list of 88 elephant corridors across India with its present status. He has also been working at policy level with various state governments as well as the central government to provide legal protection to these identified corridors. "Long-term conservation of a species can be achieved to a great extent through landscape management," believes Sandeep. Sandeep has authored two books, and has 19 research papers and three other publications to his credit.
Sandeep also manages WTI's marine programme, which focuses on whale shark conservation and coral reef securement along the Gujarat coast. He was also involved in the management of the wild species and wild aid programmes of WTI. He has managed various field research across India, including Tibetan antelope and wild yak survey in Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, to formulate a conservation plan for the protection of these species. He has vast experience in wild animal census methods and has participated in census of many species including tigers and elephants.
Sandeep has been formally trained in 'Wildlife DNA fingerprinting' at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad. He has attended several other trainings in diverse subjects including field ornithology and para-taxonomical course on faunal diversity at national and international platform.
Photography, traveling, swimming, atheletics are few of Sandeep's varied interests. Sandeep also has a doctorate in alternative medicine and is quite a linguist!
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