Ms. Dutt is a wildlife conservationist by training. She first earned a degree in social work from University of Delhi. She then pursued wildlife conservation at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology from the University of Kent and earned her MSc degree.
She has worked for the last ten years on crucial wildlife conservation projects in India and abroad. She has many scientific and popular papers on wildlife conservation to her credit and has studied a highly endangered Amazonian primate species at Jersey Zoo and was involved in assessing the conditions for release of the endangered primates in the Amazon forests.
At CNN-IBN, she has traversed the length and breadth of India’s wilderness and highlighted the underbelly of Indian politics, business, and the wildlife trade. She has over 10 awards to her credit including the Ramnath Goenka Award in 2006, the Wildscreen Award, UK and the Young Environment Journalist Award 2007.
She recently released her book, Green Wars. The book draws on her experience as a conservationist to look at how the tension between a modernising economy and saving the planet can be resolved.