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The Protected Areas of Madagascar Portal was launched by the India Biodiversity Portal. This project is supported by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in…
02 Dec 2021
Book Release: Guests Who Never Left - Common Invasive Alien Plants of Peninsular India  
Biodiversity Collaborative & Nature Conservation Foundation
09 Nov 2023
03 Mar 2021 | Akshay Dinesh, Varnita Mathur, B. R. Ansil, Vijay Chandru, Ravi Chellam, Abi T. Vanak, Uma Ramakrishnan and Prabhakar Rajagopal
ABSTRACT Health Heatmap of India is an open data platform built for bringing together data from diverse sources and facilitating visualization, analysis, and insight building…
10 Feb 2021 | Abi T. Vanak and Mridula Mary Paul
As India goes into emergency mode to tackle the potentially catastrophic impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the ‘Kerala model’ is being widely cited as an example to…
10 Feb 2021 | Vikram Aditya and G. Ravikanth
The grasslands of India form a savanna: a semi-arid grassland system that stretches across large swathes of India, including Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.…
31 Jan 2022 | Abi T. Vanak and M. D. Madhusudan
The Hindu - At the recently concluded COP26 in Glasgow, India proclaimed on the global stage that by 2030, it would elevate its renewable power capacity to 500 GW from 150 GW…
In this roundtable discussion, we will explore the potential links between biodiversity loss and mental health. We will discuss the underlying mechanisms and pathways through…
06 Sep 2023
03 Mar 2021 | Mridula Mary Paul and Abi T. Vanak
Every crisis needs a good scapegoat. In the case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, we seem to have found multiple ones. We linked this pandemic to various…
03 Mar 2021 | Nitin Pandit and Abi T. Vanak
ABSTRACT Scientists all over the world are moving toward building database systems based on the One Health concept to prevent and manage outbreaks of zoonotic diseases. An…
03 Mar 2021 | Mridula Mary Paul, Niti B Jadeja, Nadisha Sidhu and Abi T. Vanak
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has sharply brought into focus how intrusions into natural landscapes are not just environmental concerns, but are also intricately entangled with…