About Us
East Coast Conservation Team is a non-profit with a team of Wildlife Biologists, Marine Biologists, Naturalists and Environmentalists working on the conservation of threatened wildlife and habitats in the east coast and eastern ghats of India.
Priyanka Vedula
Managing Trustee and Program Manager
“Wildlife conservationist who has worked on the ecology and behavior of terrestrial mammals and is now advancing in marine life conservation, education, awareness, and capacity building.
Deepu Visweswar
Intertidal project associate
Deepu is an enthusiastic marine biologist with immense interest in intertidal ecology and focuses on cnidarian associations and polyclads in the intertidal area. Other than being an active team member, Deepu is also a PhD student at Andhra University.
ChandraShekhar Durgasi
Outreach associate
Marine biologist with a focus on Intertidal ecology and sea grasses. He also has special interest in ecology of birds and other terresrtrial aspects as well.
Shekhar Kolipaka
Scientific and community advisor
Dr. Shekhar Kolipaka is a biosocial conservation researcher. He has a broad academic profile with an MSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal University, South Africa and a PhD with multi-disciplinary subjects (Cultural Anthropology and Wildlife Biology) from Leiden University. He also has an MBA from the Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, India and an MPhil in Natural Resource Management from Indian Institute of Forest Management. Dr. Shekhar Kolipaka research focuses on human-wildlife relationships and finding solutions for human-wildlife coexistence in human-dominated landscapes
Support Team and Collaborators
Aditya Madhav
Restoration Expert
Partnering and Supporting organizations
