This must-read series by Wildlife Trust of India features 10 eminent wildlife experts who share their list of top 20 wildlife titles. This time we have Prerna Singh Bindra, India’s leading environmental journalist.

Ms Prerna Singh Bindra is a writer and wildlife conservationist with a primary focus on conservation of wildlife habitats. She has served on various high-level government committees such as India’s National Board for Wildlife and its core Standing Committee and Uttarakhand’s State Wildlife Advisory Board. Prerna is a prolific writer and has authored the critically acclaimed The Vanishing: India’s Wildlife Crisis  and two books for children including When I Grow Up I Want to be a Tiger. In 2019, she co-edited Wild Treasures, an anthology on Natural World Heritage Sites of Asia. She was a visiting fellow of Wildlife Institute of India-UNESCO Category 2 Centre. She is a director of Hathi-Sathi Foundation which works to enable safe shared spaces for people and elephants in north Bengal. After over 20 years of working in the field, she is back in college, pursuing her PhD at University of Cambridge.

Prerna is a voracious reader, compulsive traveller, loves elephants and is a dog’s best friend.