About

Bansi is a Wildlife Biologist with an especially keen interest in reptiles. Born in East Africa and having grown up around game parks, she has always been fascinated by wildlife. Bansi studied Zoology at the University of Sydney in Australia, where she gained her degree (Bsc. Adv. (Hons I)).

Bansi has conducted and assisted in a variety of research and conservation projects over the years, including studies on forestry practices and fauna surveys to endangered marine flatback turtles and the Australian platypus. She researched the social behaviour of thick-tailed geckos (Underwoodisaurus milii) under the supervision of eminent herpetologist, Prof Rick Shine. Bansi also ran a conservation project in Western Australia for the endangered and endemic Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhyncus latirostris).

The results of her various studies have been published in the scientific and popular literature (see Publications).

Bansi Shah