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Mini Nagendran

Mini Nagendran is a wildlife conservation biologist, an academic and a veterinarian. She currently teaches part-time at Cuesta College in California. She retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2023. At the USFWS she worked as a Wildlife Biologist from March 2005 in the Division of International Conservation, serving as the Program Officer for the Asian Elephant Conservation Fund, followed by the Rhinoceros and Tiger Fund (Asia) and the Great Ape Conservation Fund (Asia). Mini taught at CSU-Sacramento and Santa Monica College, served as Director of Bird Conservation in California Audubon, and for many years collaborated with international partners on field research and conservation activities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Japan, India, the U.S.A., and Bulgaria. Wildlife conservation and ecosystem health continue to be central to Mini’s interests.