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Anuj
Zoo Educator / Conservation Educator / Outreach Facilitator
Nainital Forest Department; Nainital Zoo; Nagar Palika Nainital
Cohort
4
Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
Anuj is a Nainital-based conservation educator working across schools, forest departments, the city administration, and the Nainital Zoo. His work spans programme delivery, policy-oriented awareness initiatives, and large-scale public engagement on local flora and fauna. Trained through hands-on conservation environments, he facilitates nature education for a wide age range—from junior classes to high school—while collaborating closely with the Nainital Forest Department, Nainital Zoo, and Nagar Palika to strengthen eco-awareness infrastructures such as signages, public communication, and documentation. Through events, outreach, enrichment-making, and interactive nature learning, Anuj focuses on helping communities understand the importance of local biodiversity. He continuously refines his practice through exchanges with zoo educators, global zoo education platforms, and peer networks.
Passion Project
Primary Focus Area
Nature Education , Eco-Literacy, Environmental Justice & Community Engagement
Special Expertise
Designing nature-based activities, enrichment-making from waste, zoo education methodologies, community outreach, collaboration with government bodies, biodiversity interpretation
Anuj’s project focuses on strengthening nature education and conservation awareness in Nainital through school-based learning, zoo-based experiential programmes, and community outreach. He works with students (middle, high school, and junior classes) and with key conservation stakeholders—Nainital Forest Department, Nainital Zoo, and Nagar Palika—to build ecological understanding. Activities include nature-based painting, best-from-waste creation for animal enrichment, quizzes, debates, storytelling treasure hunts, and outreach presentations for rural schools. Parallel to this, he contributes to policy-level efforts such as biodiversity signages and documentation that may be formally adopted by the district administration to promote environmental literacy across Nainital.
Communities engaged
Middle and high school students; junior school children; rural outreach school communities; forest department officials; municipal administrators; zoo visitors; teachers and school leadership.
Pedagogical Style
Interactive and activity-based teaching; painting with natural elements; best-from-waste craft-making; quizzes and debates; treasure hunts with storytelling; outreach presentations; contextualised nature learning for diverse linguistic groups (Hindi, Sanskrit-medium schools); collaborative, participatory, student-centric facilitation.