Articles by Shatabdi Chakrabarti

With more than a decade long experience of working on impactful, real life stories of change, Shatabdi has built a strong portfolio as a photographer, writer and filmmaker. Creating a unique style of visual imagery, her focus has been on wildlife, conservation and forest dwelling communities and tribes. An award winning, internationally published photographer and writer, she works with organisations like WWF-India, Round Glass Sustain, Barcroft Studios and Sahapedia producing films and photo essays. She has recently been accepted as a part of Her Wild Vision Initiative, an international directory of female wildlife and conservation media professionals.

Perils of the Phayre’s leaf monkey

Phayre’s leaf monkey (Trachypithecus phayrei), an endangered goggle-eyed primate species once widely distributed across many forests in northeast India, is now confined to small fragmented patches in the states of…