MEGOLHUSAU BANO HARALU

Bano Haralu is a veteran journalist turned conservationist.  
Her work in 2012, has been instrumental in saving the migratory Amur Falcon from being slaughtered in thousands every year In the Doyang Reservoir in Wokha district of Nagaland in northeast India. A pioneering television journalist of Northeast India, Haralu worked with the national broadcast network Dooradshan' as the region's first broadcast journalist. She went on to join India's premier private television network, New Delhi Television (NDTV), straddling the pre and post satellite era in the Indian sub-continent.  In 2001 she was awarded the Outstanding Women Media Person Chameli Devi Award for “interpreting the region to itself and the rest of the country” and is also a recipient of the Nari Shakti in 2016, for outstanding women in India in their field of work.
She returned to her home state in Nagaland in 2010 to begin work in environment conservation issues.
She is currently the Project Lead in WCS-India, implementing the IUCN/ITHCP Phase II "Partnering with communities to strengthen the conservation of critical tiger habitats in northeast India" a program with indigenous communities on the fringes of the Ntangki National Park, the only National Park in Peren district of Nagaland in northeast India.
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