Humans of the Sea – Saw Watha (Agu)
“A veteran turtler, naturalist and fisherman par excellence, Agu is in a league of his own. His tsunami survival story is the stuff of legend.” – that’s how our Trustee, Meera Anna Oommen describes Saw Watha.
Harnessing agent-based models to mitigate marine conservation conflict involving saltwater crocodiles in the Andaman islands
Harnessing agent-based models to mitigate marine conservation conflict involving saltwater crocodiles in the Andaman islands Meera Anna Oommen, Kartik Shanker, Adit D’Souza, Amulya Yadav*, Deepak Subramani# Marine ecosystems around the world often experience serious conflict between a wide variety of individual and institution-level stakeholders, as conservation decisions taken to preserve these ecosystems are often characterised…
Conservation planning, human elephant conflict and coexistence in the Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscape
Conservation planning, human elephant conflict and coexistence in the Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscape Raman Sukumar*, Meera Anna Oommen, Sanjay Ajanikar, Amlan Aditya Goswami The Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscape in Assam, which is a crucial habitat supporting over 2000 individual elephants in the Northeast Region, also includes large swathes of human-dominated spaces. Human-elephant conflict is an emerging problem…
Managing lantana camara to improve elephant habitat
Managing lantana camara to improve elephant habitat Tarsh Thekaekara Lantana camara, an exotic weed has invaded large stretches of prime elephant habitat in southern India. Despite the best efforts of government and conservation agencies, lantana continues to pose a significant threat to native flora and fauna. This project aims to explore radical new approaches to…
An illustrated guide to safety around wild crocodiles
An illustrated guide to safety around wild crocodiles Simon Pooley*, Kartik Shanker, Meera Anna Oommen, Karunya Bhaskar# Crocodilians which are distributed across 91 countries, are culturally significant, economically valuable, biologically and behaviourally fascinating, and important apex predators of waterways. Several of these species are regularly involved in conflict with humans. Many of the countries with…
Humans of the Sea – Naveen Ekka
“Naveen is in his element when he’s doing fieldwork. A jack of all trades, he has served various roles as a cook, a sharp field assistant, a certified diver and an expert snake handler.” – Adhith Swaminathan (Base Manager, ANET) on Naveen.
The CWE Programme and the importance of building networks
By Kanishk Srinivasan | While working under the banner of Dakshin’s Community Wellbeing and Environment Programme, a significant chunk of our work in the last few months has been building collaborations and partnerships with other organisations, activists and experts in the various fields that we’re attempting to work in. To provide a few examples, the Health team has built collaborations with community based organizations and youth groups active in our field sites in South Andaman and Odisha. The health and livelihoods sub-programmes have also brought Dr Abhijit Das and Venkatesh Salagrama on board as advisors to learn from their expertise in these areas and to improve programme planning and implementation.
What’s brewing at Current Conservation?
By Devathi Parashuram and Greta Ann Sam | A lot, as it turns out. How is it already 2022?! Last year was action-packed for Team CC. We brought out three issues of the magazine: 15.1 and 15.2 which are, as always, freely available for download on the website. And 15.3, which was a special issue on ‘African conservation today: New trends, perspectives and opportunities’, guest edited by Fred Nelson and Gladys-Kalema Zikusoka, and launched in December 2021 at the 30th International Congress for Conservation Biology.
Due to the volume of high quality submissions we have been receiving and the limited space in the quarterly print magazine, we are publishing more and more online-only articles. As a result of this, the total number of articles we published in 2021 was more than double that of 2020.
Sea Turtle Photo Identification Study
Sea Turtle Photo Identification Study Calling all amateur and professional underwater photographers! Have you been lucky enough to photograph sea turtles under Indian waters or photograph them during rehabilitation? If yes, we invite you to join Dakshin’s researchers for a non-invasive citizen science study that can help unravel the mysterious lives of these charming marine…