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Sanjeeva Pandey A Forester, Trainer, and Teacher

Sanjeeva Pandey has been working for the Himachal Pradesh Forest Department in the in the Western Himalayas in India. He has developed appropriate policies and guidelines for a climate-friendly afforestation programme and the conservation of natural resources especially the native biological diversity with the help of community participation. Shifting of decision making to women-folks and their empowerment has proved very effective for biodiversity conservation. He has facilitated participation of local NGOs, civil society, university students, national and international personalities in the conservation work. He has done it very successfully, at the Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area (GHNPCA) where he undertook responsibility of coordinating team effort of an informal group of Friends of GHNP, to make GHNPCA, a World Heritage Site (it was inscribed on UNESCO List in 2014).