Dr. Hemanta Kumar Sahu born in 07.09.1968 and has passed M.Sc. and M.Phil. from Utkal University, Orissa. He was also awarded Ph.D. from the same University in 2000. He has done his Ph.D. in ducks and geese of Chilika lake. He has also served in Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun as Project Associate and faculty in Wildlife and Conservation Biology Department of North Orissa University in 2002. Now he is working as Reader in Zoology in North Orissa University. He is involved in Wildlife Research in Orissa as well as in North Eastern States of India and published papers on wildlife of those areas. He has also gone to Smithsonian Institute, USA for Biodiversity and Statistical course in 2006 and 2010.