Bahar Dutt is trained as a conservation biologist- and has spent more two decades reporting on some of the biggest environment stories of our times. Her stories have led to the stoppage of an illegal mine operating inside a forest and have won her over 90 national and international awards.
Ms Dutt with her team was awarded the the Kaavli Science Journalism Award in 2023 presented by the AAAS ( American Society for the Advancement of Science) for her film Saving Bhimanama- The Asian Giant Soft-shell turtle.
She is the author of the book ‘Green Wars- Dispatches from a Vanishing World , published by Harper Collins in 2014 and Rewilding in India with Oxford University Press in 2019. She has written a book for children titled ‘Planet Protectors’ published in 2024. Bahar has worked on a community project for snake charmers and run a shelter for injured monkeys! She hopes her storytelling can impact our natural world in a positive way.
conservation projects
A Hundred Charmers
For ten years I worked on one of the most challenging yet rewarding projects of my life. I first visited the snake charmers village in Badarpur on the edge of Delhi and thus started my long term engagement with this community that today symbolizes the tension between wildlife conservation and livelhioods.
Setting up rescue center of primates in Delhi
A decade long engagement with this ancient community, living and travelling with them. This is all dummy text. She found that the charmers were unemployed and struggling for work, some of them still kept snakes in complete contravention of wildlife laws.
