Asia team

Dr. Goutam Narayan is the Project Director of the Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme (PHCP), a collaborative project of Durrell, IUCN/SSC Wild Pigs Specialist Group (WPSG), Forest Department, Govt. of Assam and Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India, started in 1995. He is a founder member of the EcoSystems-India, a non-profit trust for biodiversity conservation responsible for administering PHCP in Assam as the local partner organisation.

Parag Jyoti Deka is the Project Manager of Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme. He is a trained wildlife veterinarian and is a visiting faculty member at the College of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry, Mizoram. A formed ITC graduate, he is a member of IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group and the Wild Pigs Specialist Group.