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Dr. Ritu Shekhar 

Dr. Ritu Shekhar is presently working as Assistant Professor (Education) at Saifia College of Science and Education, Bhopal, affiliated to Barkatullah University. Along with teaching aspiring teachers studying for B.Ed. and M.Ed. degree for the last 12 years, she has completed her PhD dissertation on the professional development of teachers and educators. With an overall experience of 11 years, she has been supervising research scholars in the areas of teacher education, environmental education, and teaching methodology. She is also associated with MP Bhoj (Open) University, Bhopal as mentor and RNTU, Bhopal as research guide. Apart from academic activities, she is actively pursuing her hobby of community engagement through participation with NGOs such as RAWS, and Tinsa to address the concerns of sustainable development, as also awareness about education, health and environment.   


​​​Ankit Sinha (Secretary)

Ankit Sinha is a researcher pursuing his Ph.D. in Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation from the University of Lucknow. His research work is on the distribution, feeding, and nesting ecology of Red-Headed Vulture in the Bundelkhand region.  
He is associated with TINSA as an ornithologist and GIS expert on various biodiversity assessment projects. He has seven years of experience in wildlife conservation and research in different projects covering different aspects of biodiversity survey and monitoring, GIS mapping, report, and scientific writing, outreach, and research communications. He has worked on government-funded projects such as the Sodic Soil reclamation project in Uttar Pradesh, the Preparation of People Biodiversity Register of Kannauj, the Preparation of People Biodiversity Register of Etawah, and Mainpuri, Demographic and Ecological Studies of Vultures in Madhya Pradesh.

Dr Amit Kumar

(Landscape Ecologist & Ecological Modelling)


Our Directors

Ankur Kumar

(Ecologist & Data Analyst)


Shakti Kumar

(Reptile Expert & Educator)


Directors

Honorary Mentors

Members

Researchers & Interns

Our Directors

DP Srivastava (Vice-President)

​He grew up in the concrete jungle of Capital City, Delhi. The love for wildlife provoked him to pursue Masters in Environmental Studies from the University of Delhi, and develop an understanding as a naturalist and of human ecology. He soon started exploring nature’s hidden beauties from a fallen leaf to flying birds to mammal movement and work towards conserving these fragile beauties in human-dominated landscapes.
With years of practice, he developed expertise in reading wildlife tracks and signs and monitoring wildlife in the field. He also worked as a field surveyor in assessing carnivore distribution in Central India and as an educator to sensitize students of city and rural backgrounds toward the importance of wildlife and the environment. Later joined the Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE), University of Delhi, and worked in the field of ecological restoration of degraded patches into full-fledged ecosystems and monitoring wildlife. The experience was later utilized to provide freelance consulting to design, conduct assessments and provide conservation mitigations to several developmental projects including highways, green energies, and tourism initiatives. The news articles about tiger sightings near Bhopal city in 2016-17 drew my interest toward this topic, that how and why tigers moving in city areas? Later he developed this into the project and registered it as a Ph.D. topic (www.urbantigers.org) in 2018. ​​​

Devender Singh

(Herpetologist & Educator)


Anam Ahsan 
              (GIS Professional & Data Analyst)


ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATION

Pinal Patel (President) 

​​Pinal, with a master’s degree in biosciences from VNSGU (Veer Narmad South Gujarat University), is having experience of more than 7 years in the field of wildlife research and conservation. Her major work areas are conservation of the environment & wildlife, studying avifauna, forest and urban ecology, and nature education. 
She has associated with organizations like GEER (Gujarat Ecological Education & Research) Foundation under Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Project. At Nature Club, Surat, she worked as Naturalist and played an active role in programs on Vulture conservation and nature education for schools, colleges, and corporates. She also worked as a research fellow and education officer at Bombay Natural History Society for 4 years. She documented baseline flora and fauna data for the Gargai-Pinjal water supply project in Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary and the proposed international airport project in New Mumbai. She was also associated with Vanabandhu Natural Resource Management and Services (VNRMS) Pvt. Ltd., and SMEW Ecological Solutions Pvt. Ltd. where she was involved in bird and bat studies of wind power projects in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, and Andhra Pradesh. She also worked with the Centre for Environmental Research and Education (CERE), where she was involved in developing educational content for visitors' interpretation center at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. She also has been working as a resource person for the forest department in training programs for forest staff and locals, for developing sustainable ecotourism. ​

"We aim to sensitize people of the rural and urban areas of India towards their responsibility for appreciating and conserving the clean environment, urban green spaces, and urban biodiversity by training and supporting them at the grass-root level."



Honorary Mentors


 

MEMBERS

Purnima Singh

(Ornithologist & Educator)


Sameer Gautam

(Plant Ecologist & Educator)


Prerna Sharma

(Ornithologist & Educator)


Dr. Sarah Ali

(Urban Ecologist & GIS Expert)


Mr. Ramnish Geer 

Mr. Ramnish Geer is presently working in a senior position in Central Government. He is an eminent birder and photographer who has been observing and appreciating nature for the past decade. He is also a painter and mud sculpture artist by hobby.
He has been a constant guide and mentor to the Tinsa team. His suggestions and guidance have been of immense importance to the team Tinsa.


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