Prajna Chowta (born in 1970, Accra, Ghana) is an Indian conservationist, wildlife researcher, writer and filmmaker specialised in the Asian elephant.
She is the co-founder and managing trustee of the Aane Mane Foundation,[1] founded in Bangalore, India, in 2000.
[2] Prajna Chowta graduated in 1993 from the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS, University of London, with a Masters in anthropology.
Since 2011, she developed ElephanTTrackinG, a remote monitoring system for elephants using GPS collars currently deployed in India, Bhutan, Thailand.
[5][6] Prajna Chowta was born in Ghana, grew up in Nigeria and later in Bombay and Bangalore, India.