Day out out with Sujoy: A forester and a Earth Hero!

About the Expert: Sujoy Banerjee is an Indian Forest Service Officer of 1997 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre and has worked in various capacities in both State as well as the Central Government and is presently serving in the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department as Chief Conservator of Forests of the legal cell at Noida. He has an excellent academic record and was also the national topper of the Indian Forest Service Examinations of 1996 among more than 0.1 million candidates appearing for the examination. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Forestry Management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal and is a coveted Chevening Scholar and has undertaken a certificate course in "Environment Management & Sustainable Development" from the University of Wales, United Kingdom in 2005. He was also chosen for the “International Visitors’ Leadership Programme” (IVLP) sponsored by the Government of United States in recognition for his outstanding contribution to conservation. He is currently doing his PhD in Environmental Technology from Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Sujoy has earned a good name both nationally and internationally for his efforts in the field of conservation. He has worked as the Director of Species Conservation at WWF-India, an international NGO overseeing field projects relating to conservation of the Indian Tiger, Asian Elephant and the Asian Rhino. He was posted as the manager of the National Chambal Wildlife Sanctuary where he and his team effectively controlled illegal sand mining and illegal fishing in the Chambal river resulting in record hatching of gharials, a critically endangered species with less than 500 breeding adults surviving in the wild as per estimates of IUCN in 2005. He was conferred the Royal Bank of Scotland "Earth Heroes" Award in the “Green Warrior” category in 2014 for this outstanding contribution in conserving the gharials in the wild. He has devised a simple and cost effective technique for mitigating human-elephant technique known as the “chilli cracker technique”. He has also designed an altimeter for measuring tree height. A conservationist by heart, he is an avid photographer and his photographs have been published in calendars, books and reputed journals in the field of conservation which include the BBC Wildlife and Sanctuary Asia." He is also a singer and guitarist par excellence and has composed and sung a “tiger song” dedicated to conservation of tigers. He dreams of releasing his own rock album one day.

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