Along the coast of Godavari, as the tide recedes, a bird with a flame-coloured scissor-like bill, scans the waters for prey. Meet the Indian skimmer
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Pooja Gupta
Pooja is a multimedia artist with a focus on science communication, from Hyderabad, India. With a specialist interest in ecology and wildlife conservation, she uses her skills in design thinking to develop multimedia content for science education. Her hands-on approach to communicating conservation has taken her across the world to work on a wide spectrum of projects: from assisting on media workshops in the remote Peruvian Amazon to filming in the Andaman Islands, and developing campaign media to support various conservation causes. She collaborates with a range of experts across disciplines including leading environmental organisations in the country to create media for positive impact. She is the one of the recipients of the Jackson wild summit scholarship 2019 and media lab fellowship in 2020. More recently, she completed her research scholarship with Creature Conserve.
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