Professional Naturalist and Guide, Toby Sinclair Toby escorts
some of our group departures and is our lead naturalist
consultant for India. He began his career as a naturalist with
Tiger Tops in Nepal and has been living in India for over 25
years. He is actively involved with Tiger Link and Global Tiger
Patrol. Over the years he has written or edited 20 books on the
subcontinent including Insight Guides "Indian Wildlife" and
"Photographic Guide on the Birds of India" and various books on
the temples of Khajuraho and museums & monuments of India. As
field production manager and lead project consultant (and
encyclopedia!) for the BBC, Toby has researched and managed the
filming of "Tiger Crisis" (1994) and the "Land of the Tiger"
(1998)
for BBC/PBS. He worked on, "Tiger!" filmed over two years in
Kanha Tiger Reserve and
produced by the National Geographic Society/BBC, that was aired
in April 1999. Subsequently he worked on three
films for BBC/Discovery in Ranthambhore and another film in Panna
Tiger
Reserve documenting a project that monitored the dispersal of
male tigers.
He concurently worked on two projects in Sri Lanka for
BBC/Discovery; one on
elephants - "The Last Tusker" and another on the thriving leopard
population
in Yala National Park. He then put together a book on the Sri
Lankan leopard
("For The Leopard") that was published in 2003. The most recent
film project
was a 50 minute documentry on "The Desert Wolves of India" that
was
broadcast in the UK in October 2004. He is currently researching
a project
on the migration of geese over the Himalaya and helping compile a
book on
the Indian Landscape.
Safari Planner, Nina Rao As you plan your trip, you will be talking with Nina Rao. From 1990 to 1995 she was Vice President and General Manager of an African tour operator based in New York. In order to plan the optimal safari for my clients, she has explored the national parks and game reserves of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, and India on more than 25 safaris. In 1995, she founded Rare Earth Explorations. As a native of India, she has a special desire to promote sustainable tourism to the parks there. She was also a member on a team of experienced safari consultants that created the onsafari.com Web site, acknowledged as one of the most comprehensive source of African safari information on the Internet. She is chair-person of 'Saving Wild Tigers' a voluntary organization that raises money for conserving India's wild tigers and other wildlife.
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