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She is the co-founder and managing trustee of the Aane Mane Foundation,[1] founded in Bangalore, India, in 2000.[2]Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Studies and research[edit]Early life[edit]Publications[edit]Filmography[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Studies and research[edit]Prajna Chowta graduated in 1993 from the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS, University of London, with a Masters in anthropology.[3]She spent the last two decades in elephant camps and communities of mahouts in south and north-east India and is one of the rare women mahouts in Asia. Since 1995, she has focused on the migration of Asian elephants on the Indo-Myanmar(Burma) border; the communities and traditional techniques of mahouts in India and Burma; and the management of elephants in their natural habitat.Since 2011, she developed ElephanTTrackinG, a remote monitoring system for elephants using GPS collars currently deployed in India, Bhutan, Thailand.[4] Prajna Chowta has recently been researching the history of the Andaman elephants.[5][6]Early life[edit]Prajna Chowta was born in Ghana, grew up in Nigeria and later in Bombay and Bangalore, India. She is the daughter of D. K. Chowta, a Kannada author and businessman, and the sister of music director Sandeep Chowta.[2][7]In 2016, Prajna Chowta was made Chevalier de l’Ordre National du M\u00e9rite (Knight in the National Order of Merit), by the President of the French Republic.[8][9]Publications[edit]Chowta P., Gautier P. (2000) Hathi, l’\u00e9l\u00e9phant (French) Published by Les 400 Coups, Montreal, Canada ISBN\u00a0978-2-921620-55-0[10][11]Chowta P. (2000) The Old Elephant Route, A Research on Elephant Migration between Myanmar and India, Asian Elephant Conservation Fund Report, Fish & Wildlife Service, Washington D.C., USA[12][13]Chowta P. (2010) Elephant Code Book, revised by S.S. Bist, R. Sukumar, B.C. Chittiappa, published by Asian Nature Conservation Foundation & Aane Mane Foundation, Bangalore, India ISBN\u00a0978-81-909731-0-6[14]Chowta P., Ledoux S. (2014) Enfant d’El\u00e9phants (French), published by Elytis Editions, France. ISBN\u00a0978-2-35639-144-5[15][16]Chowta P. (2016) A Brief History of the Andaman Elephants, Aane Mane Foundation, India.[6]Chowta P. (2022) Cultural Aberrations in the Management of Captive Elephants in The SOAS Elephant Reader, edited by Ed Emery, SOAS, London, UK. ISBN 978-0-906305-16-4Filmography[edit]Hathi (1998) directed by Philippe Gautier, written by Prajna Chowta and Philippe Gautier, produced by Rock Demers, Les Productions La F\u00eate, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada[17][18]The Old Elephant Route (2000) directed by Philippe Gautier, written by Prajna Chowta and Philippe Gautier, produced by Les Films d’Ici (Paris) & GA&A (Rome), Discovery Channel, USA.[19]Elephas Maximus (2005) documentary trilogy directed by Philippe Gautier, written by Prajna Chowta and Philippe Gautier, Produced by Les Films d’Ici & 24images, Arte Television, France.Episode 1: Of Elephants and MenEpisode 2: Meetings with Remarkable AnimalsEpisode 3: God and the Elephant[20]Elephant Blues (2014) directed by Philippe Gautier, written by Prajna Chowta and Philippe Gautier, produced by 24images & Les Films d’Ici, France. Distributed by DigiNext, New York City.[17][21]References[edit]External links[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/prajna-chowta-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Prajna Chowta – Wikipedia"}}]}]