Joydeep BOSE

Dr. Bose is Regional Coordinator-CA|TS & Associate Director, Wildlife & Habitats Division, WWF-India based at secretariat in New Delhi, India. For WWF-India, he leads the Protection and Enforcement support pillar and provides programmatic support to the Wildlife & Habitats Division. Also, being part of WWF network’s Tiger Alive (TA) initiative, he coordinates the Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CA|TS) regionally over the Tiger Range countries and is the CA|TS focal point for WWF. Currently he is on part time secondment to IBCA as Regional coordinator-CA|TS.

His main areas of expertise and interest include Protected Area Management assessments, Wildlife crime control specially regarding Protected & Conservation Area (PCA) capacity building including frontline forest department staff welfare, infrastructure and equipment support, training & orientation programs; Program development; Strategic planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. 

Dr. Bose holds a M.Sc. degree in Zoology with specialization in Animal Ecology & Wildlife Biology and PhD in Zoology (primatology) with 30 years’ experience in wildlife conservation and research. He has undergone training in wildlife management by the Smithsonian Institution, USA.

Starting his career in 1995 as Junior Research Fellow (JRF) with the Indo-US Primate Project (a collaborative project of the MoEF, Govt. of India and US Fish and Wildlife Service), he then worked with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), managing the Policy, Enforcement, Law and Training (P.E.L.T.) program. Simultaneously, he served as Technical Officer of Global Tiger Forum (GTF) and was also on WTI’s international partner, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)’s global tiger strategy team. He joined WWF-India in 2009.

He was Part of core team (WWF, Global Tiger Forum (GTF), National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Govt. of India) in planning and conducting Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CA|TS) assessments of 27 Tiger Reserves and getting 23 Tiger Reserves CA|TS Approved. He co-authored NTCA’s “Protocol for Security Audits of Tiger Reserves” and was also part of core team planning, coordinating and implementing first ever NTCA mandated Security Audit of Tiger Reserves using the Protocol. As Technical Officer of GTF, he led compilation of the first edition of “Action Tiger: Tiger Action Plans of 12 Tiger Range Countries”.