prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾

PhD Scholar, Cambridge;
Fierce protector of the wild. Author of 'The Vanishing'; @home in the wilderness, misfit on twitter. A dog's best friend

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

You may call me Dr Prerna now (yes, ma, I did it).🎓🐅
5 years, 2 surgeries, a terrifying fieldwork medical emergency, and a pandemic later....
Successfully defended my @Cambridge_Uni @stjohnscam #PhD on #conservation relocation - its impacts, conduct & the #forest bureaucracy at @mytadoba
My research, respondents, supervisors, advisors, cohort taught me a lot, but this journey taught me I'm unstoppable😉
@CamUniGeography
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[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

@subhajrao Thanks so much!

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

@vmingoa Thanks , obrigada!!

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

@mytadoba @jituramgaokar @ntca_india @MahaForest @RGS_IBG @ruffordgrants @nandkishorkale1 @gladlib @ruthpadel @PrajaktaDH @VaishaliRawat @bijal_v @MittaliSethiIAS @kushagrapathak @EmmaMawdsley also everyone at #Wayanad #Wildlife #Sanctuary-my satellite field site!

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

You may call me Dr Prerna now (yes, ma, I did it).🎓🐅
5 years, 2 surgeries, a terrifying fieldwork medical emergency, and a pandemic later....
Successfully defended my @Cambridge_Uni @stjohnscam #PhD on #conservation relocation - its impacts, conduct & the #forest bureaucracy at @mytadoba
My research, respondents, supervisors, advisors, cohort taught me a lot, but this journey taught me I'm unstoppable😉
@CamUniGeography
1/3

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

@mytadoba @jituramgaokar @ntca_india @MahaForest @RGS_IBG @ruffordgrants @nandkishorkale1 @gladlib @ruthpadel @PrajaktaDH @VaishaliRawat @bijal_v @MittaliSethiIAS @kushagrapathak @EmmaMawdsley

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

@wild_haathi @Cambridge_Uni @stjohnscam Thanks so much ...a trip to #Valmiki to celebrate. How happy Ashok would have been !

[Ramki @ramkid]

Protest humour is probably the highest form of humour. Some samples. +

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

#PGWodehouse & Verrier Erwin. wow!
@j_bindra

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

At one point P.G. Wodehouse was rather upset that somebody writing under the name 'Indignant,' said his work was overrated. His reply!
"I do not wish to labour this point, but I must call Indignant's attention to this letter in The Times from Verrier Elwin, who lives at Patangarh, Mandla District, India.
Mr Elwin speaks of a cow which came into his bungalow one day and ate his copy of Carry On Jeeves, selecting it from a shelf which contained, among other works, books by Galsworthy, Jane Austen and T.S. Eliot. Surely a striking tribute."
Verrier Elwin writing to The Times about Wodehouse. Wow!

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

"46,203 hectares of forest land have been diverted for development projects since #Uttarakhand formation in 2000" One of the most beautiful, bountiful States of #India being 'developed to death.

Frequent, fatal, severe landslides, forest fires, flash floods, severe human-wildlife conflict , air & noise pollution, traffic jams...is the rest

[Anoop Nautiyal @Anoopnautiyal1]

46,203 Hectares Forest Diverted in #Uttarakhand, 47% in #Dehradun district alone:

On #Harela, I'm reflecting on where Uttarakhand stands today. Through an RTI I filed, I found that 46,203 hectares of forest land have been diverted for development projects since the state's formation in 2000. What worries me most is that 47% of this diversion has taken place in #Dehradun district alone, a district that is just 6% of the totals state's area.

Ironically, as we celebrate Harela, thousands of trees continue to be felled for the Rishikesh–Bhaniyawala highway. I'm deeply concerned that this has become the symbol of a development model that is pushing our fragile Himalayan ecosystems beyond their limits. The question for us all is that is this really the future we want?

It's obvious that Uttarakhand urgently needs climate resilient, ecologically responsible development, carrying capacity based planning, strict compliance with environmental laws, protection of natural forests and complete transparency on compensatory afforestation. I am sure that you will agree with me that Harela should be a day not only to plant trees, but also to protect the forests we still have.

If you are keen to know more, you may have a look at the enclosed RTI reply and the one page analysis with data and percentages.

July 16, 2026
[email protected]

[Tara Deshpande @Tara_Deshpande]

This dog seems to be abandoned. Golden retriever hair all matted, malnourished and terrified. It has been seen running helter-skelter from Tardeo to Pedder. If anyone recognises or owns this traumatised dog please call 8369183277.

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

Lest We forget.
#Environmentalist scholar Prof #GDAgarwal (IIT Kanpur) dedicated & fought, & finally sacrificed his life to save the 'holy' #Ganga while govt after govt poured billions into the holy river,and down the drain. Today she is a toxic mess, its free flowing life-giving water throttled by a multitude of hydroelectric projects, even a riverine #sanctuary eroded to make way for 'waterways' & luxury tourism.
A national shame.
https://t.co/Qv28AQCFxm

[Bhavreen Kandhari @BhavreenMK]

Delhi cannot afford to lose more mature trees. As temperatures soar and air pollution worsens, every old tree is an air purifier, a cooling system & a public health asset. Authorities have to stop treating tree failures as “natural”. Most are preventable & and man made!

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

@j_bindra STUNNING!
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[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

How women worked—nay, slogged—in the kitchen, aided by appliances in days of yore in #Cambridge & #UK. A #FoodProcessor, a washing machine (!), a rather elaborate contraption to peel an apple & you guessed it: the ubiquitous pressure cooker! This beloved kitchen companion knows no borders. A delightful afternoon spent at @MuseumofCamb #SocialHistory #DomesticLabour

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

@historywali @blackwelloxford @TrinityOxford Now isn't that an awesome coincidence!! You are in The Other Place? ahem, #Oxford :-)

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

Meeting #ArundhatiRoy in #Cambridge @heffersbookshop(and feeling SO kicked). that shadow on the sari is the tower of the @TrinCollCam . https://t.co/bzlviLgqNw.
@thedelhiwalla
#WalkingCambridgeMother #MotherMaryComestoMe #books @PenguinUKBooks @PenguinIndia

[prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 @prernabindra]

YES! In other metros.? Flights?

[Indian Infra Report @Indianinfoguide]

🚨Chennai Metro enforces a rule where passengers playing audio or videos without earphones can face a fine of up to Rs 2,500.

[Plantation Scientist @plantationdrip]

I want to hear his side of the story