Tara Gandhi

Tara Gandhi is an Indian ornithologist and conservation biologist, and a founder and life trustee of the Wildlife Trust of India. The trust was set up in 1998 by a small group in response to the pressures then bearing on India's wildlife and habitats, and has grown into an organisation running more than forty conservation projects, from the Pir Panjal range in Kashmir to the mangroves of Kannur and the whale shark pupping grounds off the Gujarat coast.

Her own work has been in field survey, biodiversity assessment and the institutional side of conservation. She carried out status studies of protected areas across India, including in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep, and has worked on biodiversity conservation programmes for the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, WWF and the National Biodiversity Authority. She has served on committees of the Bombay Natural History Society, the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, the Madras Naturalists' Society, and the institutional ethics committee of IIT Madras.

She writes on birds and ecology for both scientific and general readers, and continues to conduct ornithological and wildlife surveys, working with volunteers on nature conservation.[2][3]