Experience
Dr. Janmejay Sethy, did his M.Sc. in Wildlife and Conservation Biology from North Orissa University, in 2004, after that he joined Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun as a Field Biologist in 2006, which led him to do his Ph.D. from Saurashtra University, Rajkot with Affiliation to Wildlife Institute of India on “Ecology of Malayan Sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) with special reference to human-sun bear conflict in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh”. Later, he was awarded prestigious Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral (UGC Scheme) fellowship though he was selected for Post-Doctoral Fellow (Young Scientist). During his postdoc, he worked on Ecology of Malayan sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) and its role in forest restoration in Dampa Tiger Reserve, North-East India.
His special interests are mammals and birds, Bear ecology and Conservation biology. He has been working on Project “Status and Distribution of Malayan sun bear in North East India”. He has considerable research experience which he gained through extensive field work and he has experience even in project monitoring. His other works include “Status of Tigers, Co-Predator and Prey” in Central India and Tarei-arc landscape in India. Surveys on birds viz., “Different type of land use Patterns of Butterflies and Birds in Tarai Area”. His ever-long interest includes Ecology of Malayan sun bear in North-East India which he has been concentrating since the last ten years. Additionally, he is expertise in Animal ecology and conservation biology and he has been internationally recognised as IUCN/BSG Sun bear expert team member.