The Rewilders is a team of motivated individuals, who bring together their knowledge of forest, flora and fauna, into creating wilderness spaces in degraded landscapes. The Rewilders was registered in 2020, to take the similar restoration work to larger scale and bring more and more wilderness into the city. The Rewilders collaborates with experts such as ecologist, biologists and landscape architects, to present a holistic design that is rooted in preserving and bringing back the native habitats along with conscious design and implementation. At The Rewilders, we strongly believe in meaningful partnerships with NGOS, corporates and government agencies, in order to restore ecologies and habitats.
Vijay Dhasmana, is an ecological restoration practitioner and has been restoring degraded lands since 2007. One of his most notable projects is the transformation of a 380-acre mined site in Gurugram into the Aravalli Biodiversity Park in Gurgaon. This initiative became the first OECM site in India. He was given the Sanctuary wildlife award for this in 2020 along with other two iamgurgaon members.
Prabhat Kumar has been an integral part of the rewilding work in the Aravali Biodiversity Park. He is presently supervising a team of 22 gardeners provided by the Hero Motocorp Ltd. He supervises the ecological health of the park and does periodic removal of invasive species, takes care of the nursery and overall management of the park.
Ramesh Singh, is a botanist who has good knowledge of the flora of Himalayas and our semi-arid landscapes of the Aravalis. Before joining The Rewilders, Ramesh worked intensively on a restoration project in the southern Aravalis. He is very passionate about plants and their germination.
Currently he is intensely involved in our ecorestoration sites in Gurugram.
Simran Kaur is a trained landscape architect from CEPT. She is keenly interested in ecological restoration and wants to design around the ideas of ecological restoration. She lends her design skills to whatever we do.
Akash Jaiswal, an ecologist by training is pursuing his Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, focusing on avian bioacoustics for advanced biodiversity monitoring, as well as acoustic ecology. He is passionate about aplying data-driven approaches to address real-world conservation challenges.
At The Rewilders he oversee design, implementation and reporting of ecological and biodiversity surveys across the projects.