Creative Group · Nature Walk Interpreter
Specialty: Biodiversity Interpretation · Botany · Urban Ecosystems
Kanchi Harchekar’s most memorable wildlife encounter reads like a scene from a film — because it happened at one. Standing with her participants on the Leopard Trail at Goregaon Film City, having just finished the walk, she watched a leopard suddenly appear and stroll right past the group. Seeing such a magnificent animal so close, in its natural habitat, made the moment truly unforgettable.
About Kanchi Harchekar
With a BSc and MSc in Botany and three to five years in the field, Kanchi wears two hats at Naturalist Explorers: she designs brochures for events as part of the creative group, and she conducts nature walks interpreting local biodiversity — birds, plants, insects and whole ecosystems, with a special love for mangroves, wetlands and urban wildlife. Her spirit animal is the Fishing Cat: patient, observant, comfortable alone, and — like Kanchi, who lives near mangroves — right at home in a coastal wetland.
What always amazes her participants is just how much wildlife exists around us, even in dense urban areas. Once people learn to observe carefully, they start noticing birds, insects, mammals and behaviours they’d never seen before. That, Kanchi believes, is where care begins: when people slow down and observe nature closely, they come to appreciate and protect it far more deeply.
“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall they be saved. — Jane Goodall”
