Sangita Iyer
Sangita Iyer is an Indian-Canadian broadcast journalist, writer, biologist and documentary filmmaker. She is known for her advocacy on wildlife conservation, especially for wild elephants, and for exposing the atrocities against Asian elephants by religious institutions. Iyer has been featured in the BBC News. She is the founding executive director and president of the Voice for Asian Elephants Society, which was created in 2016 with the aim of protecting wild and captive elephants of India.

Iyer's debut documentary film, "Gods in Shackles", was based on the treatment of captive elephants in Kerala. The film was nominated at the United Nations General Assembly, featured at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and has received over a dozen international film festival awards. The documentary was inspired by the encounters and witnesses gathered by Iyer. She is also a "National Geographic" explorer, and has produced a 26-part short documentary series about Asian elephants, using the National Geographic Society storytelling award.
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