Moving Forests with Keshav Sharma
Jul 7, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 13 segments
Trishala walked away from an award-winning jewellery-design career to become a purpose-driven conservation filmmaker. In this episode, she traces the path from her first tiger sighting in Jim Corbett…
Trishala AshokGuest
Keshav SharmaHost
I would say 70%, if I'm not wrong, they are being trafficked all over the world.
How can you bring snakes in the flight? They don't allow you to take a charger in it.
But here's the thing, like, the people in the trade also know that the penalty for wildlife smuggling and trafficking is very low, in India especially, right? So they take that chance.
For me, I believe that a boy running to Gauri Shankar and saying, "You know, a snake has come to my house," and then he goes.
That boy will be like, "Just kill the snake." And he'll be like, "No, no, no.
They were like, uh, "See here, the snake has laid eggs and, you know, we see it every day coming, and we guard it." People have really put me down in this field: A, for being a woman, and B, for, you know, not being from the wildlife field, and C, not being from the filmmaking field.
First case that I did was it had six monkeys, and they're all defecated, and they were all stuffed in a basket.
It, it still just drives me to not giving up on the fight against exotic pet trade and wildlife crimes.
I would say 70%, if I'm not wrong, they are being trafficked all over the world.
How can you bring snakes in the flight? They don't allow you to take a charger in it.
But here's the thing, like, the people in the trade also know that the penalty for wildlife smuggling and trafficking is very low, in India especially, right? So they take that chance.
For me, I believe that a boy running to Gauri Shankar and saying, "You know, a snake has come to my house," and then he goes.
That boy will be like, "Just kill the snake." And he'll be like, "No, no, no.
They were like, uh, "See here, the snake has laid eggs and, you know, we see it every day coming, and we guard it." People have really put me down in this field: A, for being a woman, and B, for, you know, not being from the wildlife field, and C, not being from the filmmaking field.
First case that I did was it had six monkeys, and they're all defecated, and they were all stuffed in a basket.
It, it still just drives me to not giving up on the fight against exotic pet trade and wildlife crimes.
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