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{{short description|Wildlife conservationist and author from India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox person
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| nationality = Indian
| other_names = Prerna Bindra
| occupation = Environmentalist, journalist
| years_active = 2006
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'''Prerna Singh Bindra''' from [[Gurgaon]], India is one of India's leading environmental journalists and travel writers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://viaf.org/processed/LC%7Cn+2005212576|title=LC|n 2005212576|website=viaf.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.conservationindia.org/author/prerna|title=Prerna Singh Bindra|website=Conservation India|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/people/interviews/178-meet-prerna-singh-bindra-.html|title=Meet Prerna Singh Bindra|website=sanctuaryasia.com|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref> She is also a visiting faculty member at [[National Centre for Biological Sciences]] and has received the Carl Zeiss Wildlife Conservation Award.

==Education==
Prerna holds a Masters in Labour Welfare from Gujarat University and has done graduate work in Economics at [[St Xaviers (Ahmedabad)]].

==Career==
===Author and writer===
She started her career in management from [[Indian Institute of Management]], [[Ahmedabad]] as a [[Research Associate]]. After she found that her true call calling was writing, she started writing from Sanctuary Asia. Later she worked on daily newspapers ''[[The Asian Age]]'', ''[[The Pioneer (India)|The Pioneer]]'', ''[[The Times of India]]'' and others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/travel/story/india-wildlife-travel-tiger-reserve-forests-lifetr-973284-2017-04-25|title=A personal account of a joyride to the wildlife reserves in India|first1=Prerna Singh Bindra|last1=April 25|first2=2017UPDATED|last2=April 25|first3=2017 11:32|last3=Ist|website=India Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/no-lessons-learnt/story-DxhcYBc0Ro6UM4DBH31xxK.html|title=Review: Rage of the River by Hridayesh Joshi|date=23 September 2016|website=hindustantimes.com/|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref>

Prerna authored more than 1,500 articles on nature and wildlife in mainstream media. Prerna took to concentrating on working with governments at the local, regional and federal levels, to conserve India's wildlife and wild habitats through policy and legal reform, the promotion of education and awareness, and by supporting effective action on the ground.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/environment/tiger-population-swells-but-tigers-still-under-attack/story-jRqwKWLRTgSa4iJaQeYxDP.html|title=Tiger population swells but tigers still under attack|date=29 July 2017|website=hindustantimes.com/|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmsvatavaran.org/speakerdetails.php?id=171|title=7th CMS VATAVARAN Environment and Wildlife Film Festival and Forum 2013|website=cmsvatavaran.org|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref>

She is the editor of Tigerlink, a journal which collates and analyses information about tigers from across their range countries.

===Positions served===
Prerna has served on the [[Uttarakhand]] State Board for Wildlife and was a member of the [[National Board for Wildlife]] and part of its core Standing Committee between 2010 and 2013. She is part of the team of the [[National Tiger Conservation Authority]] (NTCA) to assess the management effectiveness of tiger reserves in an IUCN framework.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://projecttiger.nic.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/file/mee_tiger_2011.pdf|title=National Tiger Conservation Authority}}</ref>

She was part of the committee appointed by the Ministry of Tourism to study relevant issues concerning tourism and wildlife in [[Uttarakhand]] which ultimately led to the creation of buffers around reserves and guidelines for tourism for tiger reserves.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.incredibleindia.org/newsite/pdf/corbett_tourism_report.pdf |title=Report on impact of tourism on tigers and other wildlife in Corbett Tiger Reserve |author=Prerna Singh Bindra |website=Incredible India V2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628122344/http://www.incredibleindia.org/newsite/pdf/corbett_tourism_report.pdf |archive-date=June 28, 2010}}</ref>

==Awards==
* 2007 ABN-AMRO Sanctuary Asia Wildlife Service Award, for in-depth and consistent coverage of conservation issues<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ashoka.org/en-in|title=Home | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker|website=www.ashoka.org}}</ref>
* 2007 Carl Zeiss Wildlife Conservation Award
* 2012 Nominated for [[International Visitor Leadership Program]]
* 2014 Chevening-Gurukul Scholarship for Leadership & Excellence

==Books==
* 2006 The King and I: Travels in Tigerland<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2961916.Prerna_Singh_Bindra|title=Prerna Singh Bindra|website=goodreads.com|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oSBeAAAACAAJ|title=The King and I: Travels in Tigerland|last=Bindra|first=Prerna Singh|date=2006|publisher=Rupa & Company|isbn=9788129107978}}</ref>
* 2010 Voices in the Wilderness<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqu0icYYHzYC|title=Voices in the Wilderness: Contemporary Wildlife Writings|last=Bindra|first=Prerna Singh|date=2010|publisher=Rupa & Company|isbn=9788129116017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.conservationindia.org/resources/book-review-voices-in-the-wilderness-edited-by-prerna-singh-bindra|title=Book Review – Voices in the Wilderness, edited by Prerna Singh Bindra|website=Conservation India|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref>
* 2017 The Vanishing India's wildlife crisis.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/culture/story/journalist-environment-prerna-singh-bindra-the-vanishing-wildlife-crises-lifest-1025851-2017-07-23|title=Journalist Prerna Bindra's book studies our changing attitudes towards the environment|last1=23 July|first1=Baishali Adak|last2=July 23|first2=2017UPDATED|website=India Today|access-date=12 February 2019|last3=Ist|first3=2017 16:08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.indialivetoday.com/prerna-singh-bindra-author-vanishing-indias-wildlife-crisis-talks-fate-indias-disappearing-wildlife/179745.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170725193737/http://www.indialivetoday.com/prerna-singh-bindra-author-vanishing-indias-wildlife-crisis-talks-fate-indias-disappearing-wildlife/179745.html| archive-date = 2017-07-25| title = Prerna Singh Bindra, author of The Vanishing India’s Wildlife Crisis talks about fate of India's disappearing wildlife {{!}} India Live Today}} </ref>
* 2017 When I Grow Up I Want to be a Tiger<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/just-right-for-kids-v-geetha-when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-tiger4574217/|title=Just Right For Kids|date=18 March 2017|website=The Indian Express|access-date=12 February 2019}}</ref>

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