Meet THe TEAM
Shane Pinner
A holder of a Masters of Business degree and a former teacher of tour guiding, Shane has a keen interest in geology and all things natural - in particular birds, orchids, and fungi.
He has been involved in the conservation programs for the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrots and Swift Parrots, as well as threatened native orchids in Tasmania. He has also made documentaries about Swift Parrots, native orchids, fire ecology, and Fairy Prion conservation.
He finds time to guide professionally for a small cruise company, an aerial tour company and then some more time as a volunteer for the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Campground Host Program.
He is a member of various natural history groups and the International Biogeography Society. He loves sharing his vast expanse of knowledge and has travelled extensively - especially to Nepal, where he’s been a dozen times and he hopes to create and lead tours in the mountain kingdom soon.
RAMIT SINGAL
Ramit has a strong interest in natural history - particularly birds, frogs, snakes, and mammals. A birder since his schooling days, he grew up dreaming about the wilderness while living in the urban sprawl of New Delhi; and then moved to a quaint town called Manipal near the Western Ghats of India for his university. Here, his interest really picked up and he founded a birding club and wrote a book on the birds of Manipal.
Once finished with his course in engineering, Ramit dived straight into working with wildlife. After a few jobs surveying wildlife across India, he set up a conservation project in Manipal and ran outreach campaigns to raise awareness about the local wildlife. During this time, he wrote the 2nd edition of his book and discovered 3 new species of frogs. At the end of the project, he was awarded the Carl Zeiss Award for Wildlife Conservation.
He has since dabbled as a freelance tour guide, a wildlife filmmaker, a nature sound recordist, has conducted photography and sound recording workshops, and written another book. He worked with Bird Count India - a citizen science project to monitor India’s birds - for 3 years before moving to Tasmania, where he now works on an eclectic set of bird-related projects locally as well as abroad.