About Us

Nature Mates - Nature Club

At Nature Mates, we are dedicated towards the welfare and conservation of Wildlife. Established in 1995 as a part of Nature Club initiative of WWF India, and registered as an independent organization under West Bengal Society Registration act in the year 2006.

Nature Mates' mission is to develop an ecosystem wherein wildlife and human coexist. Irrespective of the vulnerabilities we are working on landscape as well as taxa based conservation approach, joining hands with local people.

Our efforts are focused on education, species and habitat conservation, human-animal conflict mitigation, gathering biodiversity knowledge and reaching out to citizen (through our citizen science programs), nature education and community outreach, healthcare, alternative livelihood and disaster relief to forest fringe villagers and animal rescue.

Our Core areas of work include:

  • Documentation of Floral and Faunal Diversity
  • Biodiversity Gardening
  • Tree Plantation, Transplantation and Restoration
  • Animal Rescue and Welfare
  • Wetland Restoration
  • Species and Community Level Research
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
  • Alternative Livelihood Generation
  • Educational and Community Outreach Programs
  • Publications

Team Nature Mates

Governing Body

Col. Shakti Ranjan Banerjee
Founder President
J. R. B. Alfred - PhD
Vice President
Arjan Basu Roy
Secretary
Arijit Chattopadhyay - PhD
Assistant Secretary
Devsena Roychaudhury
Treasurer & Chief Projects Coordinator
Vijay Barve - PhD
Member
Uttam Mahatha
Member
Diya Banerjee
Member
Prasenjit Dawn
Member

Team Nature Mates

Amit Mondal
Assistant, Eco Park Butterfly Conservatory
Anindita Majumdar - PhD
Scientific Advisor
Anirban Chaudhuri
Consultant, Wildlife Crime and Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation
Aniruddha Sur
Creative Team
Anisha Mazumdar
Project Assistant, Eco Park Butterfly Conservatory
Anusua Pal
Head, Biodiversity and Grant Writing & CSR Wing
Arabinda Narayan Dolai
Tree Transplantation
Aritra Kshettry
Consultant, Human Wildlife Relationship & Conflict Mitigation
Arpita Dutta
Honorary Wildlife Rescue Consultant
Arunava Mukherjee - PhD
Voluntary Scientific Associate
Banani Mondal - PhD
Scientific Advisor
Debaditya Kumar
Voluntary Scientific Associate
Debrup Sen
Voluntary Scientific Associate
Deeya Roy Chowdhury
Creative Team
Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee
Senior Advocate - Legal Cell
Jirmiya Rava
Butterfly Gardener, Rajabhatkhawa Butterfly Conservatory
Kezajacho Dukpa
Field Assistant, Hornbill Project
Lina Chatterjee
Program Manager, Pakhibitan and Avi-faunal Habitat Management & Monitoring
Manjushree Ray
Junior Accountant
Prakash Rai
Butterfly Gardener, Rajabhatkhawa Butterfly Conservatory
Rajarshi Sen
Chartered Accountant
Raju Das
Instructor, NIC, Eco Tourism Park Butterfly Conservatory
Ratnesh Karjee
Creative Team
Rishin Basu Roy
Scientific Associate and Program Manager, EIA Projects
Ritam Dey
Lab Assistant, Eco Touism Park Butterfly Conservatory
Ritu Chatterjee
Honorary Accounting Consultant
Rudra Prasad Das - PhD
Scientific Advisor
Sajal Bar
Field Personnel, Biodiversity Survey
Sarika Baidya
Program Manager, Butterfly Conservation and Research
Shreya Das Nandi
Sr. Accountant
Shilpita Mandal
Project Manager, Hornbill Project
Sitaram Mahato
Field Assistant, Hornbill Project
Soma Dutta
Education & Awareness
Somik Ghosh
Project Assistant, Biodiversity Survey & Monitoring and Library Manager
Soumya Sarkar
Scientific Associate
Subhashis Das
Office Executive
Swapna Biswas
Field Personnel, Biodiversity Survey And Tree Transplantation
Tamaghna Sengupta
Lab Assistant, Rajabhatkhawa Butterfly Conservatory
Tarak Samanta
Research affiliate
Tarun Karmakar
Honorary Research Affiliate
Rickta Roy
Project Assistant, Banabitan Butterfly Conservatory
Chandrima Biswas
Project Assistant, Banabitan Butterfly Conservatory
Sutrishna Haldar
Project Assistant, Banabitan Butterfly Conservatory
Bithi Majumder
Project Assistant, Eco Park Butterfly Conservatory
Amit Mahato
Field Assistant, Bee Station - Purulia

District Coordinators

Biswajit Ghorai
South 24 Parganas
Dipan Bhattacharyya
Hooghly
Diya Banerjee
Jalpaiguri
Lina Chatterjee
Howrah
Prosenjit Dawn
Howrah
Sajal Bar
South 24 Pargana
Soumya Sarkar
Bankura
Suprio Ghosh
Burdwan
Supriyo Mahata
Purulia
Tamaghna Sengupta
Alipurduar
Tarak Samanta
East Mednapore
Tarun Karmakar
Alipurduar
Abhimunnya Mahato
Purulia

Life Members

Bikramaditya Guha Roy
Debleena Roychaudhury
I P Tantia
J. R. B. Alfred - PhD
Lee Durrell
Mudar Patherya
Radhika Goyal
Sanchita Dey
Sayantan Chatterjee
Yagnesh N Chawda
Anirban Chaudhuri
Sukanta Das
Prantik Banerjee

Associate Partners