Dr Sahil NIJHAWAN

Research Fellow, Synchronicity Earth, ZSL, NCF

Dr Sahil Nijhawan is an interdisciplinary conservation anthropologist who has worked in Latin America, Southern Africa and India. His work integrates ecological methods and newer technologies with traditional ethnographic approaches to understand wild animals, people, and the relations between the two. For past decade, he has worked with and alongside the Idu Mishmi people of Dibang Valley in Northeastern India - a journey that began with his doctoral research in 2012, which studied socio-cultural, ecological and political relations between the Idu Mishmi and tigers. He is now part of a team of Idu Mishmi people working on a range of locally-led initiatives towards rights-based, ethical bio-cultural conservation and research. He is a Future Leaders Fellow at the Zoological Society of London and University College London, and a member of the ICCA Consortium.