Dr. Deba Kumar Dutta

About

I am a wildlife biologist & passionate conservationist with an interest in Indian rhino conservation and currently working as the Landscape Coordinator of the Brahmaputra Landscape, Manas Conservation Area (Assam), WWF-India. I am the first Indian to have a Doctorate degree in the research of translocated rhinos’ behavior and habitat preferences.

Employment

• Aaranyak Deputy Director
  2025 - Present
• WWF-India Landscape Coordinator , Manas Landscape
  2007 - 2023

Education

• Gauhati University PhD

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (7)

• Rhinos of the World: Ecology, conservation and management
  Pachyderm 2025 DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1352
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• The recruitment pattern and inter-calving interval of the reintroduced greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) population in Manas National Park, Assam, India
  Pachyderm 2025 DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v66i.1322
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• Current conservation status of Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis in Manas National Park, Assam, India
  Journal of Threatened Taxa 2024 DOI: 10.11609/jott.8247.16.7.25507-25515
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• Behaviour and habitat preferences of translocated rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis) at Manas National Park, Assam, India
  Pachyderm 2023 DOI: 10.69649/pachyderm.v64i.524
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• Partnership for conserving the Sub-Himalayan grasslands of India
  Oryx 2022 DOI: 10.1017/S0030605322000576
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• Greater One-horned Rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) population census in the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, Assam, India
  Journal of Threatened Taxa 2019 DOI: 10.11609/jott.4415.11.9.14187-14193
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• Seasonal variations in food plant preferences of reintroduced Rhinos Rhinoceros unicornis (Mammalia: Perrissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) in Manas National Park, Assam, India
  Journal of Threatened Taxa 2016 DOI: 10.11609/jott.2486.8.13.9525-9536
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