GCT Team
Diwakar B S – Founder and Trustee
An MSc (Information Technology) holder, working as a Senior Manager in an IT firm by profession but a wildlife researcher by passion.
He has completed his Wildlife Conservation course from IIT (Kanpur) and has secured Elite Silver category. He likes interacting with local
communities around the forest areas to understand the Human Wildlife conflicts and has conducted multiple educational workshops for villagers & and the schools on various critical topics. He has been actively taking part in various wildlife surveys & census from 2014 with various forest departments across India. He has also worked as program manager for wildlife monitoring projects. He has taken up various small-time projects to study and understand the behaviour of various mammals in Central & South Indian forests. He has also assisted the forest department in dozing off forest fires in a few instances. His research interest areas are Elephant Behaviour Studies, Human Elephant Conflicts and Elephant Landscape Connectivity. He is a hardcore trekker and have been trekking in Himalayan ranges for the last 13 years & has scaled upto 20400 ft above sea level.
He has completed his Wildlife Conservation course from IIT (Kanpur) and has secured Elite Silver category. He likes interacting with local
communities around the forest areas to understand the Human Wildlife conflicts and has conducted multiple educational workshops for villagers & and the schools on various critical topics. He has been actively taking part in various wildlife surveys & census from 2014 with various forest departments across India. He has also worked as program manager for wildlife monitoring projects. He has taken up various small-time projects to study and understand the behaviour of various mammals in Central & South Indian forests. He has also assisted the forest department in dozing off forest fires in a few instances. His research interest areas are Elephant Behaviour Studies, Human Elephant Conflicts and Elephant Landscape Connectivity. He is a hardcore trekker and have been trekking in Himalayan ranges for the last 13 years & has scaled upto 20400 ft above sea level.
Naveen A – Founder and Trustee
Naveen is an engineer from bangalore. He has been working on asian elephant science and conservation for the past 7 years. He has gained important field skills and experience working on different aspects of elephant science like elephant population estimation techniques, elephant distribution and sampling techniques, human elephant conflict studies, village surveys, understanding cropping patterns and mapping attractions, Barrier assessment and elephant connectivity studies among others. He has been part of various awareness and education programs conducted in villages and schools. He has also been part of training programs conducted to train forest staff and other stake holders. He is an active member part of friends of elephants, an awareness initiative that has been continuosly running for the last 9 years. His interests are mainly in studying elephant landscapes and their connectivity which is crucial for long term survival of asian elephants. He is also an active trekker and a cyclist. He has completed his Basic Mountaineering Course from NIMAS, Arunachal Pradesh