Toby Sinclair
Location Manager
A London-born Scot who first drove out to India in 1974. At the end of 1975 he joined the Tiger Tops Jungle Lodge in Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park. In April 1977 he moved to Delhi and helped establish both Mountain Travel India and an office for Tiger Tops. During this time he trekked extensively in the Western Himalaya and during the winter of 1978/79 spent six months in Kanha National Park helping to establish the Kipling Camp. In 1980 he left Tiger Tops and in 1981 established the Bandhavgarh Jungle Camp.
1981 to 86, in charge of the Administration of Cox & Kings New Delhi office.
He has been on the Advisory Committee of the Bombay Natural History Society, and is today on the Govt of India Steering Committee on Protected Area Management, he is a trustee of Global Tiger Patrol.
Publications
1986 to 94, Edited and contributed to a series of books on different parts of South Asia including a series of Insight Guides to India; Indian Wildlife; India's Western Himalaya, South India, Calcutta, Delhi, Jaipur & Agra; and Rajasthan.
1990 Introduction to India (Hodder/Odyssey)
1991 Photographic Guide to the Birds of India.
Contributed the photographs for:
Divine Ecstasy - The Story of Khajuraho by Shobita Punja (pub. Viking 1992)
The Great Monuments of the Indian Subcontinent by Shobita Punja (pub. Hodder/Odyssey 1994).
Since 1995 he has worked as a Location Manager with Mike Birkhead Associates on many Natural History and other TV documentary projects in South Asia including:
1997 Land of the Tiger for Mike Birkhead/BBC/PBS
1997 Tiger Crisis Update BBC
1999 Tiger Special Mike Birkhead/Hugh Miles for BBC/NGS
1999 Warriors of The Monkey God BBC
1999 Monsoon NHNZ/Discovery/NHK
2000 Rhino Patrol BBC/Animal Planet
2000 The Last Tusker Mike Birkhead for BBC
2000 The Tigers’ Fortress Mike Birkhead for BBC
2000 The Wild Bunch - India's Wild Dogs Mike Birkhead for BBC/Animal Planet
2001 Leopard Hunters Mike Birkhead for BBC
2001 The Last Rhino NHNZ/Discovery
2002 The Iron Duke Granada for BBC
2002 Empire Channel 4/History Channel
