Kashmira Kakati

Kashmira Kakati is a wildlife biologist and environmental activist working the North Eastern forests of India. In 2010, she announced the discovery of the presence of seven species of wild cats in the Jeypore-Dehing forests in Assam. Her work using camera traps to find wild cats was featured in the first episode of the BBC documentary Lost Land of the Tiger.

Education Kakati graduated from the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. She pursued her doctorate research on gibbons in Assam as part of the Wildlife Research Group, University of Cambridge. The research found 7 cat species in a 354-square-mile (570-square-kilometer) range—the highest diversity of cat species yet photographed in a single area.

In 2011, Kakati authored a report critical of Indian government plans to build a highway through a wildlife sanctuary. Two years later, it was still "the only known impact study" for this 99 km road project connecting India to Burma.

In 2014, Kakati filed a petition seeking legal protection for the elephant corridors under the Environment Protection Act. She alleged that the state government allowed Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) to construct an oil dispatch terminal in the Golai elephant corridor in violation of environment laws. According to Kakati's petition, around 295 elephants use the two corridors to migrate from one end to the other of the reserved forest which is also home to over 40 species of mammals and 19 carnivores.