The survey was conceptualised and designed by Monica Kaushik, a postdoctoral fellow at the Wildlife Institute of India, with inputs from Krishnapriya Tamma, a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science; Sandhya Sekar; Sabuj Bhattacharyya, a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science; and Vena Kapoor, the Education and Public Engagement Programme Coordinator at the Nature Conservation Foundation.