Talking Turtles : Turtle Tales

Anne Wright and Belinda Wright

Anne Wright and Belinda Wright

In the 1960s, Anne Wright was one of the few prominent people involved in wildlife conservation in India. She was one of the founding trustees of WWF-India in the 1960s and a member of the Tiger Task Force commissioned by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to select tiger...
Bivash Pandav

Bivash Pandav

Bivash Pandav started studying sea turtles in Odisha as a researcher at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, in 1993. He was the first to research on and report thousands of increasing ridley deaths that occurred as incidental catch in trawl fishing from the...
BC Choudhury

BC Choudhury

As a young biologist, B.C. Choudhury was part of a turtle monitoring unit organised by Robert Bustard to count olive ridley turtles during an arribada. This was an experience that led him to pursue a career on crocodiles rather than turtles, because he wanted to...
Chandra Sekhar Kar

Chandra Sekhar Kar

Chandra Sekhar Kar joined the Forest Department in Odisha as a Research Scholar in 1976. Initially stationed at Nandankanan Zoological Park, he then decided to shift to Gahirmatha as no one else was willing to work there. Madhab Chandra Dash at Sambalpur University...
Col Limpus

Col Limpus

Colin ‘Col’ Limpus, Australia’s foremost turtle biologist, initiated his research on green and loggerhead turtles in Queensland in the 1970s. He was mentored by Robert Bustard, and they worked together extensively on flatback sea turtles. Limpus carried on Bustard’s...