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| 1. fostering eco-friendly plantations |
How can one extend the reach of conservation into landscapes outside protected areas? Conservationists around the world are now working to extend conservation to such landscapes, especially lands under productive agriculture and plantations, by linking production with the market for products certified as coming from farms that follow sustainable and ecologically-friendly practices. |
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| 2. nurturing nature appreciation |
Scattered fragments of tropical rainforest amidst vast monoculture plantations, a high density of people, and a host of endangered, endemic wildlife—this is the Valparai plateau of the Anamalai hills in Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot. Keeping in mind the fragile ecosystem, conflict between people and wildlife, and the need for broad-based conservation awareness, we spearheaded a conservation education programme, beginning in 2007. |
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| 3. of islands, food and fun |
The Nicobar Islands are biologically unique as they encompass a variety of ecosystems. Indigenous islanders extract natural resources using traditional systems of ownership and management. The overall aim of this project is to understand the influence of post-tsunami change on cooperative behaviour and sharing of natural resources amongst these indigenous communities, from the perspective of conservation and management of natural resources. |
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| 4. rays of hope |
As ocean waters are intensively fished, large and long-lived carnivores often get depleted, and the fishery shifts towards the capture of species lower down the marine food web. In this study, we plan to use carnivores like rays and skates as indicators of fishing intensity, in order to determine the impacts of trawling on marine food webs, and on the fishery along the Coromandel Coast. |
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| 5. fishing with irrawaddy dolphins |
The Irrawaddy dolphin restricts itself to narrow ecological niches, often competing with humans for space and resources. This is reflected by the fact that throughout its range of occurrence, the most significant direct threats to the dolphin are due to fishing. The aim of this study is therefore to analyse human-Irrawaddy dolphin interactions, with a special focus on how foraging behaviour is affected by fishing at Chilika lagoon. |
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| 6. chickenfeed |
Trawling is an extremely destructive fishing practice, and results in the capture of several non-target species known as "bycatch". This study is an attempt to understand the drivers of trash fish landings, and how they influence the economy of the trawl fishery along the Coromandel Coast of India. |
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| 7. the 2004 tsunami: disaster and beyond |
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| 8. turf wars: turtles and fishers in agatti |
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| 9. bleaching coral reefs |
Coral reefs are highly effective canaries of global change. Thriving in the warm waters of the tropics, hard corals respond rapidly to unusual fluctuations in oceanic temperature by bleaching white. In recent times, extensive mass bleaching and coral mortality has been reported from reefs in all tropical oceans, apparently triggered by severe El Niño events. Our work in in understand this phenomenon as focused on the Lakshdweep island reefs. |
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