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Uttarayan (Wildlife Wing), a 35+ yr old NGO working with people and ecosystem has been steadily building robust ecology across West Bengal.
We are partnering with WWF West Bengal to create a nursery for elephant fodder and repellant plantation to restore fragmented habitats of North Bengal Terai elephant corridors.
We are also partnering with Rainmatter Foundation for Forest and landscape restoration in a participatory mode – – the largest of its kind in India in parts of elephant corridors of South Bengal – a volatile field of man-elephant conflict.
We also work extensively with WCT in Sundarbans creating a model village in Songaon, Gosaba, Namkhana, where we are restoring saline land, doing plantations to create a balance between ecological restoration and human well being. Our latest initiative is to remove plastic waste from the sensitive ecosystem of Sundarbans.
The NGO’s sole mission and vision has been to REVIVE – REGENERATE – RESTORE fragmented landscapes and recreate rich biodiversity while balancing human needs.
Our methodology is purely community based collaborations so that each benefit from each other and community takes full ownership of the regeneration process.
We are part of the ”Ecological Restoration Alliance India community”
We address key aspects of UN SDG.
Celebrated World Environment Day with local Forest Department of Arambagh, Hooghly, the program comprised of Awareness generation in local school students, by organising Drawing Competition, Essay Writing, Slogan Writing, etc. It got local news coverage as well.
Celebrated World Elephant Day by planting fodder tree species near forest fringe grasslands of Gobindapur, Bankura.
Celebrated World Forest Day by planting various types of avenue tree species on roadsides in Kusumdungri, Bankura and Panipathar, Purulia.
Celebrated World Environment Day with a school of Baguihati. Uttarayan organised a visit of Banabitan with environment related placards for the students.
Celebrated Horticulture Day, by providing fruit saplings to local villagers so that they can plant them on their courtyard and it will be regarded as a source of food. It was organised in Santiniketan, Birbhum district.
Celebrated World Women’s Day by giving away timber species as an empowerment to about 200 women’s of Arambagh, so that they can plant them and after 8-10years, if they are in financial crisis then they can sell the timber and improve their family economically.
Celebrated World Environment Day by organizing a miking session about forest degradation, climate change, habitat destruction, etc in various parts of Kolkata.
Celebrated Independence Day by planting total 2020 plants in different parts of Hooghly, Bankura, Birbhum, Purulia, Kolkata, etc.
Conservation sets and evolves the strategic direction for wild life conservation, while nurturing a strong leadership team to drive its execution.
Mr. Prasanta Kumar Pandit, Retd. (IFS),Honarary Member of Uttarayan Wild Life Conservation, having not only vast experience throughout West Bengal in territorial, Wildlife, Tiger Reserves, Protected Areas & Marketing div. as Additional DFO,DFO & Div.Mgr., Conservator / Chief Conservator of forests but an eminent award winner personality, a Professor and an author (books & monographs).
Since 2017 he is associated as Chief Conservator of Forests , Personnel Mngt. Cell with West Bengal Forest Directorate.
M.Sc. Forestry from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun with experience of working on Community Education, Awareness Generation and Conservation Strategies for Gangetic Dolphin in West Bengal and have experience of habitat restoration project in Maldevta, Dehradun. I am one of the four candidates in India to get the prestigeous fellowship from International Tropical Timber Organization, Yokohama, Japan for Internship work on Socio-economic dependency on Agroforestry in Yamuna Nagar, Haryana. I have also been working in leading role on several projects of ecological importance like awareness generation in society, afforestation in several parts of India, etc. under the banner of Uttarayan.
An ex corporate wholly dedicated to wildlife management and conservation in West Bengal for past 15 years. I have been in several prestigious conflict management mitigation projects for past 10 years. Am also a successful activist voicing my concerns in form of RTI, PIL’s for better management and
slip-offs. Featured in Fortune India magazine as a wildlife conservationist working towards Conflict mitigation.
Certified from United for Wildlife in Ecology: Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation
Awarded the Hoffman Ecology Restoration Grant, Switzerland to revive the broken ecology of Sundarbans Post Amphan.
Conservation sets and evolves the strategic direction for wild life conservation while nurturing a strong leadership team to drive its execution.
Earlier during his tenure as Divisional Forest officer in 24 Parganas (1990-1993) , he undertook Mangrove Conservation, Protection and Development project in the SUNDERBAN BIOSHPERE RESERVE.
As a Deputy Conservator of Forests –SBR (1993-1995) his area of operations was from Sagar island to Herobhanga bordering Sajnekhali and the Sunderban Tiger Reserve from Herobhanga side to Bangladesh border.
Mr. Prasanta Kumar Pandit, Retd. (IFS),Honarary Member of Uttarayan Wild Life Conservation, having not only vast experience throughout West Bengal in territorial, Wildlife, Tiger Reserves, Protected Areas & Marketing div. as Additional DFO,DFO & Div.Mgr., Conservator / Chief Conservator of forests but an eminent award winner personality, a Professor and an author (books & monographs).
M.Sc. Forestry from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun with experience of working on Community Education, Awareness Generation and Conservation Strategies for Gangetic Dolphin in West Bengal and have experience of habitat restoration project in Maldevta, Dehradun. I am one of the four candidates in India to get the prestigeous fellowship from International Tropical Timber Organization, Yokohama, Japan for Internship work on Socio-economic dependency on Agroforestry in Yamuna Nagar, Haryana. I have also been working in leading role on several projects of ecological importance like awareness generation in society, afforestation in several parts of India, etc. under the banner of Uttarayan.
An ex corporate wholly dedicated to wildlife management and conservation in West Bengal for past 15 years. I have been in several prestigious conflict management mitigation projects for past 10 years. Am also a successful activist voicing my concerns in form of RTI, PIL’s for better management and
slip-offs. Featured in Fortune India magazine as a wildlife conservationist working towards Conflict mitigation.
Certified from United for Wildlife in Ecology: Ecosystem Dynamics and Conservation
Awarded the Hoffman Ecology Restoration Grant, Switzerland to revive the broken ecology of Sundarbans Post Amphan.
Alumni of most prestigious Indian Institutes – Indian Statistical Institutes, IIM bringing in unique leadership led the group in fields uncharted. It is with his vision B K Roy group now boasts the finest Nursery division, takes pride in state of art DBT Certified tissue culture unit.
M.Sc Environmental Science from Visva-Bharati Central University. 5 years working experience with WWF-India as an intern , volunteer, and field guide resource person for eco trail. Presently working in Uttarayan Wildlife Wing as a Project head of Ecological Restoration in South Bengal.
M.Sc Zoology from Netaji Subhas Open University. Working experience as field assistant at Paribesh Unnayan Parishad 3 years working experience with WWF-INDIA as field assistant. Presently working in Uttarayan Wildlife Wing as a Project Head, Sundarbans for ecological restoration and livelihood projects.
Completed M Sc ,PhD from Calcutta University. Achrya P C Roy fellow.. Joined ICAR as Scientist(Soil) .Later joined Dept of Agriculture Govt of West Bengal.as Deputy Director. Worked with International plant Nutrient Institute, The Sulphur Institute USA.and Fetiliser Association of India. Recipients of Sri Ram Award and Sar Samachar Samman fromFAI. More than eighty publications in national and international re journals .Retired from Govt service as Additional Dierector of Agriculutre and Managing Dierector WBSSC.
Scientific Advisor and Director
B.Engg.(Electronics)
University of Sussex. UK.
M.Engg. (Ocean)
Griffith University. Australia.
20 + years experience .
Worked with Gold Coast City Council, EPA, along with University for beach protection, beach erosion prevention, wind and tidal energy generation. Worked for prevention of coast and river banks from recreational wake boarding.
Architect and Urban Planner Assistant Professor
Urban Management Center Netaji Subhash Administrative Training Institute Government of West Bengal