Vineet Soni
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Born | 21 May 1979 |
Education | Ph.D. (India), Post Doctorate (Switzerland) |
Occupation(s) | Plant conservatist and Biotechnologist |
Vineet Soni is a plant biotechnologist and conservationist, and the founder of the "Save Guggul Movement", a community-based conservation effort to conserve threatened plant species, particularly guggul.[1][2] His conservation efforts got the warm appreciation from the local villagers and conservation communities.[3]
Soni specializes in conservation biology and photosynthesis research. He obtained his doctorate in India in 2005 and performed postdoctoral work at the University of Geneva in 2007. He is a member of three International Union for Conservation of Nature commissions: the Species Survival Commission, the World Commission for Protected Areas, and the Commission on Education and Communication.