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{{short description|Indian journalist (born 1975)}}
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| name = Bahar Dutt
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| birth_date = c. 1975
| birth_place = [[New Delhi]], [[Delhi]], India<ref name=meet>{{cite web |title=Meet Bahar Dutt |publisher=Sanctuary Asia |date=February 2009 |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url=http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1456:meet-bahar-.. |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032402/http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1456:meet-bahar-.. |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| education = [[University of Delhi]]; [[University of Kent]]
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| occupation = Television journalist and environmental editor
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| employer = CNN-IBN Live
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| known_for = environmental journalism
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| spouse = [[Vijay Bedi]]<ref>[https://www.hindustantimes.com/more-lifestyle/we-bought-a-farm-the-story-of-one-delhi-couple-s-adventures-with-the-simple-life/story-wRjWF4mEVjD8YlYXW6siPO.html We bought a farm: The story of one Delhi couple's adventures with the simple life]. ''[[Hindustan Times]]''.</ref>
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| father = SP Dutt
| mother = Prabha Dutt
| relatives = [[Barkha Dutt]] (sister)
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| website = {{URL|1=ibnlive.in.com/blogs/author/258/bahardutt.html|2=Beasts in My Belfry}}
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'''Bahar Dutt''' (born 20 June 1975)<ref>{{Cite twitter |title=First #FathersDay without my dad first birthday without my father. #COVID19 has scarred so many of us in so many ways |user=bahardutt |number=1406483550547812354 |access-date=2022-04-15 |language=en}}</ref> is an Indian television journalist and environmental editor and columnist for [[CNN-IBN]].<ref name=ibnlive>{{cite web|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/author/258/bahardutt.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129152014/http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/author/258/bahardutt.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 January 2009 |title=Bahar Dutt's Blog - Beasts in my Belfry: IBNlive.com |publisher=Ibnlive.in.com |accessdate=2 May 2013}}</ref>

==Early life==
Bahar Dutt is the daughter of SP Dutt and Prabha Dutt, who was among India's first female journalists and influenced Bahar's career path.<ref name="meet"/> Bahar Dutt is the sister of well-known journalist [[Barkha Dutt]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Prabha Dutt fellowship goes to Express journalist |publisher=Express India |date=30 November 2007 |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/latest-news/Prabha-Dutt-fellowship-goes-to-Express-journalist/245028/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130620021630/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/latest-news/Prabha-Dutt-fellowship-goes-to-Express-journalist/245028/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 June 2013 }}</ref>

Bahar is the only Indian environmental journalist to have won Green Oscar for her reporting on environment issues in India.
<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sanctuaryasia.com/people/earth-heroes/9356-bahar-dutt-and-cnn-ibn.html |title=Bahar Dutt and CNN-IBN |access-date=9 May 2019 |archive-date=9 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509130052/https://www.sanctuaryasia.com/people/earth-heroes/9356-bahar-dutt-and-cnn-ibn.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pragyan.org/16/home/lectures/crossfire/bahar_dutt/ | title=Pragyan 16 - Bahar Dutt | access-date=9 May 2019 | archive-date=26 May 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526020237/https://www.pragyan.org/16/home/lectures/crossfire/bahar_dutt/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Dutt is a [[wildlife]] conservationist by training.<ref name=ibnlive /> She first earned a degree in social work from [[University of Delhi]]. Dutt then pursued wildlife conservation at the [[Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology]] from the [[University of Kent]] and earned her MSc degree.<ref name=meet /><ref name=wild>{{cite news|first=Proyashi |last=Barua |title=In the wild |date=30 November 2009 |access-date=18 June 2013 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/In-the-wild/articleshow/5283401.cms|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130620023513/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-11-30/education/28112170_1_snake-charmers-conservation-drive-wildlife|url-status=live|work=[[The Times of India]] |archive-date=20 June 2013}}</ref>

==Career==
Before turning to journalism, Dutt worked on her own conservation projects.<ref name=jeevika>{{cite news|title=A Different Charm: Bahar Dutt comes to rescue of Delhi snake charmers |work=India Today|date=1 January 2007 |access-date=18 June 2013 |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/offtrack/story/20070101-bahar-dutt-of-jeevika-friends-of-snakes-shows-a-alternative-way-of-livelihood-to-snake-charmers2007-749164-2006-12-31}}</ref> She spent seven years with the Bahelias, or snake charmers, across [[Haryana]] and [[Rajasthan]] in northern India.<ref name=meet /> India's [[Wildlife Protection Act, 1972|Wildlife Protection Act of 1972]] made wild animals public property, which made the snake charmers' practice of catching snakes and training them illegal.<ref name=nature>{{cite news|title=Charm offensive |publisher=Nature |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url=http://www.nature.com/news/2002/020715/full/news020715-5.html}}</ref> Dutt worked with them to combine their knowledge of snakes and musical abilities into public performances and education without the use of snakes.<ref name=jeevika /><ref name=nature /> In that project she merged wildlife conservation and heritage preservation.<ref name=wild /> Her work with the snake charmers was featured in media.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indian snake-charmers |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corp. |work=Science Show |date=29 August 2009 |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/indian-snake-charmers/3128798}}</ref>

She was hired in 2005 to be an environmental journalist by [[Rajdeep Sardesai]].<ref name=meet /> For CNN-IBN she is the Environment Editor, she has done undercover investigations, news reports. Her reportage has influenced policy and led to the stoppage of many illegal projects coming up on wetlands and forests

==Notable works of journalism==
In 2006, she directed ''Last Dance of the Sarus''. This was an award-winning investigative news piece about the drainage of wetlands in eastern India that are the habitat of almost a third of the world's [[sarus crane]]s. The drainage project was for the proposed development of an airport.<ref name=Sarus1>{{cite news|title=TV 18 shines at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards 2006 |publisher=Indian Television |date=17 July 2007 |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k7/july/july220.php}}</ref><ref name=Sarus2>{{cite news|title=India bags two Pandas at Bristol wildlife film fest |work=The Indian Express|date=19 October 2006 |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/india-bags-two-pandas-at-bristol-wildlife-film-fest/14998/1#sthash.DgpNo6iX.dpuf}}</ref><ref name=Sarus3>{{cite news|first=Narayani |last=Ganesh |title=Green oscars: 2 Indian films win top prizes |date=20 October 2006 |access-date=18 June 2013 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Green-oscars-2-Indian-films-win-top-prizes/articleshow/2210438.cms|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411034410/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-10-20/rest-of-world/27808074_1_sarus-indian-entries-film|url-status=live|work=[[The Times of India]] |archive-date=11 April 2013}}</ref>

Bahar recently released her book, ''Green Wars''. The book draws on Dutt's experience as a conservationist to look at how the tension between a modernising economy and saving the planet can be resolved.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://harpercollins.co.in/BookDetail.asp?Book_Code=4682 |title=HarperCollins Publishers India Ltd |access-date=6 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607002724/http://harpercollins.co.in/BookDetail.asp?Book_Code=4682 |archive-date=7 June 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Awards==
* 2006 [[Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards|Ramnath Goenka Award for excellence in environmental reporting]] for ''Last Dance of the Sarus''<ref name=Sarus1 />
* 2006 Wildscreen Award (International). Dutt was awarded a "Red Panda" in 2006 for ''Last Dance of the Sarus'' in the news category by the [[Wildscreen Festival]].<ref name=Sarus2 /><ref name=Sarus3 />
* 2007 Young Environment Journalist Award<ref>{{cite news|title=Assam youth bags Forum of Environment Journalist award |work=The Hindu|date=18 September 2007 |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200709181040.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130620021558/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200709181040.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 June 2013 }}</ref>
* 2009 Sanctuary-RBS Wildlife Awards. Dutt was awarded the Wings award for raising the stature of environmental journalism.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bahar Dutt conferred with RBS Wildlife Awards |publisher=ibnlive |date=31 January 2009 |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bahar-dutt-conferred-with-rbs-wildlife-awards/84115-3.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814190017/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bahar-dutt-conferred-with-rbs-wildlife-awards/84115-3.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 August 2014}}</ref>
* 2009 Sanskriti award<ref>{{cite news|title=Young achievers get this year's Sanskriti Awards |work=Hindustan Times|date=20 November 2009 |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Young-achievers-get-this-year-s-Sanskriti-Awards/Article1-478573.aspx |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023095804/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/newdelhi/young-achievers-get-this-year-s-sanskriti-awards/article1-478573.aspx |archivedate=23 October 2013}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* IBN Live channel, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke0_3ZhGtEY CJ Show: Bahar Dutt takes viewers questions]" (9 June 2013)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090129152014/http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/author/258/bahardutt.html Beast in My Belfry], columns by Bahar Dutt
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120903192815/http://www.wildscreen.org.uk/downloads/India2009.pdf International wildlife and environmental film festival 2009]
* [https://archive.today/20130411034410/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-10-20/rest-of-world/27808074_1_sarus-indian-entries-film Green oscars: 2 Indian films win top prizes], First ever news journalist to win Green Oscar
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120607062911/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/world-environment-day-saving-the-sacred-ganga/264338-3.html World Environment Day: Saving the sacred Ganga]

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