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 | 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…
19 Apr 2021 | Bawa, K. S., Nawn, N., Chellam, R., Krishnaswamy J., Mathur, V. B., Olsson, S. B, Pandit, N., Prabhakar, R., Sankaran, M., Shaanker R. U., Shankar, D., Ramakrishnan, U., Vanak, A. T., Quader, S.
Contemporary losses of biodiversity, sometimes referred to as the sixth mass extinction, continue to mount (1, 2). A recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy…
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.…
19 Apr 2021 | Bawa, K., Sengupta, A., Chavan, V., Chellam, R., Ganesan, R., Krishnaswamy, J., Mathur, V.B., Nawn, N., Olsson, S.B., Pandit, N., Quader, S., Rajagopal, P., Ramakrishnan, U., Ravikanth, G., Sankaran, M., Shankar, D., Seidler, R, Uma Shaanker, R. and Vanak
Highly populated tropical countries face tremendous pressures in reconciling the needs for improved economic security and the protection of declining biodiversity. India is no…
19 Apr 2021 | Bindra, P. S., Gajjar, C., Ghosh, A., Kumar, M., Lobo, C., Mukherjee, D., Nair, P., Olsson, S., Pandit, N., Patrao, T., Ramakrishnan, U., Ramanathan, U., Shah, Shyamsundar, P. and Srinivas, P. N.
The ongoing global pandemic and its health and economic effects have aggravated multiple existing systemic vulnerabilities linked to human and environmental systems, both in India…
19 Apr 2021 | Olsson, S., Quader, S. and Pradhan, A.
This 90 minute webinar was structured as a panel discussion, hosted by the Biodiversity Collaborative, who have been working together with government agencies to develop and…
19 Apr 2021 | Olsson, S., Quader, S. and Pradhan, A.
This report summarizes the experiences and outcomes of the first national virtual conference on citizen science approaches for biodiversity, hosted as part of the preparatory…
19 Apr 2021 | Olsson, S., Quader, S. and Pradhan, A.
Research and education in biodiversity in India are not proportionate to the country’s biological wealth and to the immense potential that this wealth has for societal benefits.…
19 Apr 2021 | Olsson, S., Quader, S. and Pradhan, A.
India still has very few researchers trained for biodiversity studies. The result is an inadequacy of trained biodiversity personnel, a deficiency in the number of citizen…
