Award-winning Environmental Journalist, Author, Graphic Artist and Communications Specialist
Ananda Banerjee has been part of several leading organisations to give a voice to important environmental and development trends, through his research, writing and artwork. His ability to popularise data, research, science and developmental issues through research, writing and design have won him several prestigious awards. He has been widely applauded for his incisive writing on environmental issues.
Ananda has been able to straddle diverse organisations across his 25-year long career, bringing to each his deep knowledge about natural history, climate change and conservation. His interest lies in environmental economics, sustainability and ecological restorations.
Further, Ananda is also associated with the Environment Law and Development Foundation, where he co-founded ‘Paryavidhi’ - India's first Environment Law Quarterly
AWARDS
Banerjee is a recipient of the following most prestigious awards:
• Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Earth Heroes Award (2015)
• Environmental Journalist of the Year, Asian Environmental Journalist Awards (AEJA - Singapore Environment Council) (2014)
• Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, (2013)
BOOKS
• Meenu the Whale Shark (Children’s book – Whale Shark Campaign, WTI, 2022)
• l’ermellino di Leonardo (co-authored with Martina Corgnati, Nomos Edizioni, Italy, 2020)
• Amy - The Amur Falcon (2014 - Nagaland Wildlife & Biodiversity Conservation Trust, 2014)
• Nature Chronicles of India - Essays on Wildlife, (2014, Rupa & Co)
• Wild Trail in Madhya Pradesh (2013, Eicher Goodearth Books)
• Common Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (2008, Rupa & Co)
Ananda has contributed to several books, magazines, galleries and museums around the globe - Grosvenor Gallery, London; National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis), Leiden; World Water Exhibition, Hague; Water Asia Exhibition, New Delhi, International Crane Foundation, Wisconsin to name a few.
INVITED LECTURES & ADVISORY ROLE
• Guest speaker at The Horcynus Foundation Orca di Messina, Italy, September 2019
• Guest speaker at The School of Cultural Heritage, Department of Communication and Didactic, Academy of Brera, Milan, & Antonio Ratti Foundation, Commo, Italy (2018)
• Distinguished visiting scholar and lecturer at University of New Mexico (UNM Art Museum), Albuquerque, USA (Fall, 2017)
• Advisory board of Current Conservation (www.currentconservation.org)
• Member - IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC) and Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
Banerjee’s tweets @protectwildlife. Write to anandabanerjee@outlook.com
