Jun 24 2021 to Jun 24 2021 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The leopard is perhaps one of the world’s most beautiful creatures. It is social but solitary, inconspicuous but significant in numbers, large but ubiquitous, and does not fit any of the pigeonholes of large-cat conservation. In India, the leopard is a poster boy of the fight to preserve wildlife, but in many countries, it faces either ecological or local extinction. A worrying phenomenon, given that these cats carry out important ecosystem services that have not been fully understood yet. In a first of its kind book on leopards from India (Leopard Diaries: The Rosette in India), based on over a decade of field research work Dr. Sanjay Gubbi unravels the complex and ambivalent world of leopards that is sometimes marked by horrifying tension between the humankind and the natural world. The relation of the species with the ecosystem, the landscape it survives in, the people, and the society is extremely important to be understood

Sanjay Gubbi
Scientist, Conservationist and Writer
Dr. Sanjay Gubbi’s work integrates science, contemplative studies of the natural world, and society. His conservation work has been consistently of the highest quality and exhibits an infectious enthusiasm that few in the country have been able to match.

Dr. Gubbi holds a doctorate in leopard ecology and conservation. Along with his scholarly research, Dr. Gubbi has also written extensively in the popular press. He writes extensively both in English and Kannada and is especially keen on popularising wildlife conservation in local languages. He is the author of the books Second Nature: Saving Tiger Landscapes in the Twenty-First Century, and the bi-lingual book The Land of the Honey Badger. His Kannada books include Shaalege banda chirate matthu itara kathegalu and Vanyajeevigala Jaadu Hididu.

A self-taught conservationist, he was the winner of the Whitley Award (popularly known as the Green Oscars) in 2017. He was listed as one of ‘Tomorrow’s 25 Leaders’ by The Times of India and is the recipient of the Co-existence Award, the Carl Zeiss Conservation award and various others.

Sejal Mehta
Consulting Editor
Sejal Mehta is an independent writer and editor. She currently volunteers at Marine Life of Mumbai, writing science communication for marine spaces. She was part of the core teams that launched Nature inFocus (Editor-in-Chief), Lonely Planet Magazine India (Deputy Editor), National Geographic Traveller India (Editor, Digital). In the past, she has worked at Saevus Wildlife Magazine (Consultant Editor), as copywriter at Onads Communications, as Equity Research Editor at JPMorgan Chase and as a cub reporter at Femina where she worked on the people pages of the magazine, and spearheaded a section called Ordinary Women Extraordinary Lives.