Vineet Soni
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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 was profiled as one of the 20 global “Earth Movers” by IUCN.[4]Initially his conservation work received financial support from the IUCN Sir Peter Scott Fund.[5]
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.
References
- ^ People for plants
- ^ Education and Awareness in the 'Save Guggul Movement'
- ^ Why Vineet Soni in bent on saving the guggul plants, UNESCO`s A World of Science
- ^ IUCN Earth Movers http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/issue3_wc_earth.pdf
- ^ Sir Peter Scott Fund project: Guggul Tree, Rajasthan http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/species/about_ssc/sir_peter_scott_fund/psf_projects/psf_guggul_tree/