Faculty

Assistant Veterinary Surgeon, Tamil Nadu State Government

Wildlife Institute of India (WII)

• Involved in several projects, including surveys on Malabar and brown palm civets

Coimbatore Zoological Park (CZP)

• Associated with zoo horticulture and exhibit designing
• Re-created four vegetation types of Western Ghats in the zoo campus

Environment Public Authority (EPA) of Kuwait (2003)

• Helped prepare a schematic design plan for a wildlife rescue centre

International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)

• Part of the five-member team renovating the Baghdad Zoo in 2003
• Responsible for redesigning avian and mammalian exhibits in a war zone

• Instrumental in creating IFAW-WTI’s wildlife rehabilitation centers: CWRC and CBRC
• Oversees rehabilitation projects for Asiatic black bears, Hoolock gibbons, and hand-raised elephants
• Leads a large contingent of wildlife veterinarians at WTI
• Focuses on reaching out to animals in distress across India

Memberships

• Captive Breeding Specialist Group, IUCN/SSC
• Veterinary Specialists Group, IUCN/SSC

• Ashraf, N.V.K., 2004, A meZOOpotamia for Iraq. ZOOS' PRINT, Volume XIX, Number 8, August 2004. https://zoosprint.org/index.php/zp/article/view/3123/2897
• Ashraf, N.V.K., Kumar, A. and Johnsingh, A.J.T., 1993, Two endemic viverrids of the Western Ghats, India. Oryx, 27(2), pp. 109–114. doi:10.1017/S0030605300020640
• Ashraf, N.V.K.; Chellam, R.; Molur, S.; Sharma, D.; Walker, S., 1995, ASIATIC LION Panthera leo persica Population & Habitat Viability Assessment P.H.V.A. and Global Animal Survival Plan Workshops, 18-21 October 1993, Baroda, India. Report May 1995.
• Beecham, J.J.; Hernando, M.D.G.; Karamanlidis, A.A.; Beausoleil, R.A.; Burguess, K.; Jeong, D.-H.; Binks, M.; Bereczky, L.; Ashraf, N.V.K.; Skripova, K.; Rhodin, L.; Auger, J.; Lee, B.-K., 2015, Management implications for releasing orphaned, captive-reared bears back to the wild. The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 79, Issue 8. First published: 04 August 2015. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.941
• Barman, R., Choudhury, B., Ashraf, N. and Menon, V., 2014, Rehabilitation of greater one-horned rhinoceros calves in Manas National Park, a World Heritage Site in India. Pachyderm, 55, pp. 78–91. https://pachydermjournal.org/index.php/pachyderm/article/view/356
• Basak, K., Mandal, D., Babu, S. et al., 2018, Prey Animals of Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in Dudhwa Landscape, Terai Region, North India. Proc Zool Soc, 71, 92–98 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12595-016-0196-5
• Ashraf, N.V.K.; Kumar, A.; Johnsingh, A.J.T., 1993, On the relative abundance of two sympatric flying squirrels of Western Ghats, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 158-162. https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10.5555/19950615004
• Ashraf, N.V.K., 2000, The botanical side of a zoological park in Coimbatore, India. CASE REPORT, Vol. 15, No. 1, January 2000. Published 2000-01-21. https://zoosprint.org/index.php/zpj/article/view/5787
• Ali, S.; Choudhury, B.; Basumatary, P.; Ashraf, N.V.K.; Baro, D.; Barman, R.; Narayanan, A.; Chidambaram, B., 2023, POST-CAPTURE MANAGEMENT MEASURES TO REDUCE INCIDENCES OF CAPTURE MYOPATHY IN CERVIDS. Veterinary Practitioner, Vol. 24, No. 1, June 2023. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samshul-Ali/publication/373277964_POST-CAPTURE_MANAGEMENT_MEASURES_TO_REDUCE_INCIDENCES_OF_CAPTURE_MYOPATHY_IN_CERVIDS/links/64e4b06d0453074fbda75e63/POST-CAPTURE-MANAGEMENT-MEASURES-TO-REDUCE-INCIDENCES-OF-CAPTURE-MYOPATHY-IN-CERVIDS.pdf