Sahil NIJHAWAN

Dr Sahil Nijhawan is an interdisciplinary conservation anthropologist who has worked on human-wildlife relations across Latin America, Southern Africa and India. For the past decade, he has lived and worked alongside the Idu Mishmi people of Northeast India - a journey that began with his doctoral research in 2012 on socio-cultural relations between the Idu and tigers. He is part of several Indigenous-led teams working on rights-based bio-cultural conservation, which includes decolonised research, storytelling curriculum for Indigenous knowledge transfer, wildlife recovery in ICCAs, and shamanic knowledge preservation.