Prerna Singh Bindra

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Prerna Singh Bindra
NationalityIndian
Other namesPrerna Bindra
OccupationEnvironmentalist, journalist
Years active2006

Prerna Singh Bindra from Gurgaon, India is one of India's leading environmental journalists and travel writers. [1] [2] [3] She is also a visiting faculty member at National Centre for Biological Sciences and has received the Carl Zeiss Wildlife Conservation Award.

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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 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad as a Research Associate. After she found that her true call calling was writing, she started writing from Sanctuary Asia. Later she worked on daily newspapers The Asian Age , The Pioneer , The Times of India and others. [4] [5]

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. [6] [7]

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 Uttarakhand State Board for Wildlife and was a member of the National Board for Wildlife and part of its core Standing Committee between 2010 and 2013. She is part of the team of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to assess the management effectiveness of tiger reserves in an IUCN framework. [8]

She was part of the committee appointed by the Ministry of Tourism to study relevant issues concerning tourism and wildlife in Uttarakhand which ultimately led to the creation of buffers around reserves and guidelines for tourism for tiger reserves. [9]

Awards

Books

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  5. ↑ "Review: Rage of the River by Hridayesh Joshi". hindustantimes.com/. 23 September 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "Tiger population swells but tigers still under attack". hindustantimes.com/. 29 July 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "7th CMS VATAVARAN Environment and Wildlife Film Festival and Forum 2013". cmsvatavaran.org. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  8. ↑ "National Tiger Conservation Authority" (PDF).
  9. ↑ Prerna Singh Bindra. "Report on impact of tourism on tigers and other wildlife in Corbett Tiger Reserve" (PDF). Incredible India V2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 June 2010.
  10. ↑ "Home | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker". www.ashoka.org.
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  12. ↑ Bindra, Prerna Singh (2006). The King and I: Travels in Tigerland. Rupa & Company. ISBN   9788129107978.
  13. ↑ Bindra, Prerna Singh (2010). Voices in the Wilderness: Contemporary Wildlife Writings. Rupa & Company. ISBN   9788129116017.
  14. ↑ "Book Review – Voices in the Wilderness, edited by Prerna Singh Bindra". Conservation India. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
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