Bahar Dutt conservation biologist and environmental journalist

Bahar Dutt is a conservation biologist and environmental journalist. She has worked as environment editor for the news channel CNN-IBN. She used to run an animal ambulance for injured primates and helped set up a rescue centre for them. She’s spent the last decade reporting from some of the most threatened biodiversity hotspots on the Planet. Her celebrated TV series -- Saving the Ganga for CNN-IBN -- ran in six regional languages including History India and was one of the highest-rated TV shows. Broadcaster, environment editor, writer and closet baker, she now lives a more ordinary life in New Delhi with her dog Musibat (Trouble) and her husband Vijay, a wildlife filmmaker.