Wildlife Research and Conservation Society

Sonal Pawar holds a Master's degree in Biodiversity from MES Abasaheb Garware College-Pune and BSC in Microbiology from Modern College, Ganeshkhind, Pune. She is an avid bird watcher and loves to spend time in nature.  For her Master's dissertation she was exploring the Microbial diversity of floral nectar using different medias While completing her Master's  she had Volunteered for several wildlife survey in India,  Gaur tracking surveys held by the Maharashtra Forest Department and Butterfly survey held by Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary Goa. She has interned with Zoological Survey of India,(ZSI) Western Region Center, where she was working on taxonomic identification of different taxa's, preservation techniques and morphometery of Amphibians. She had also interned with IISER, Tirupati on the project “Modified Landscapes in Tropical Mountains and Their Regenerative Role for Native Biodiversity” in the Sholas and high altitude grasslands of The Nilgiris.

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