[Music] [Applause] [Music] i think i had one of the best childhoods anyone could have my father starting at age one he started taking me to wildlife parks across india and we would spend hours and hours and hours just watching animals and i quickly fell in love with wild india both my mom and dad are scientists and finding a passion and a career that you loved was more important [Music] came here did field work in the western guards had amazing highs and some real lows but i loved being out in the field it ended up becoming one of india's most landmark successful resettlement projects and i realized that my interests were actually not so much on the animals themselves but really looking at the intersection of people and wildlife foster a sense of well-being in both animals and people [Music] india is my home and i also felt that coming back here even though it's more challenging to work here the work would be more meaningful [Music] [Music] to me it was the palate moment in my life because in 2015 we launched it and over the years now we work in four wildlife parks across india serving more than 1500 villages basically it's a toll-free number where if you have an elephant that comes to your farm or a tiger that comes and kills your livestock you call the number our staff arrive on the scene and help file the claim [Music] [Music] kids would know what a kangaroo is and what a cheetah is and a lion is but they didn't know what a gower was what a lion tail macaque is and what a wild dog is and our research has shown that we have increased environmental literacy and awareness by 12 to 16 percent because of our work [Music] [Music] when i became a rolex laureate in 2019 it truly was a tufani moment in my life for the first time in my life it stopped being about solutions that americans or europeans were designing that we indians were copying and it became about us doing innovative work that the rest of the world wanted to appreciate [Music] [Music] fun