08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya, Aravind N.A, and Sumashini P.S.
Bats evoke awe and aversion in equal measure from humans. They are the only mammals capable of true flight and have a unique sonar-based echolocation mechanism to capture prey at…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya
India’s forest-dwelling communities have since antiquity utilised various biodiversity elements in forests to augment their livelihoods and fortify their nutritional security.…
A national consultation workshop on “Developing methodology for assessing the contribution of biodiversity to agriculture, food and nutritional security, and diversification of…
12 Mar 2020
Biodiversity Collaborative / Biodiversity Collaborative
2020
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…
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.…
