Growing up in Cape Town, Mayur has always had a deep passion for the natural world, especially birds and then later flora. He’s explored and led tours extensively around South Africa, and also as far afield as Uganda for Green-breasted Pitta, Shoebill and African Green Broadbill. In recent years he’s combined his love for photography with botanical photography and exploration and he’s developed a reputation for being able to show people some of South Africa’s localised and special flora.

Mayur is currently based for most of the year at Oxford University in the UK and in between his studies, he promotes the amazing botanical diversity of both the Cape and Drakensberg floras, and returns a number of time a year to lead specialist botanical tours.