Kabir Sanjay Bavikatte is an environmental lawyer supporting communities to secure their rights to their territories and cultures. He is one of the founders and the co-director of Natural Justice, an organization of environmental law practitioners working in Africa, Asia and Latin America to ensure that community concerns are effectively represented in the development and implementation of domestic and international law and policy. Kabir is currently focusing on supporting communities to develop biocultural community protocols to assert their stewardship rights to their lands and traditional knowledge. Kabir is also the legal adviser to the African group of countries in their negotiations under the Convention on Biological Diversity.