PhD candidate @SDC_WUR. Interested in wildlife conservation outside protected areas.
Bangalore
Joined August 2010
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Happy to share a recently published paper
Imposing connectivity: Privileging an elephant corridor over ecotourism in the Sigur Plateau, South India, which examines how the discursive power of an elephant corridor was used to territorialise a landscape. (shorturl.at/kulPl)
New #Openaccess paper
Capturing Land for Elephant Corridors in South India through the Conservation-Agrarian Squeeze (rb.gy/vipa5y)
which argues that factors in conservation and agrarian landscapes squeeze farmers, enabling land acquisition for conservation.
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The 2023 @ForestSurvey (FSI) registers a marginal increase in #India’s #forest cover by 156 km², a deceitful inflation that hides an inconvenient truth of colossal loss of natural #forests as an analysis by #PrakritiSrivastava @krithika_1193 & myself shows. Besides, the @ForestSurvey report #ISFR2023 has disregarded #SupremeCourt orders.
Read our analysis tinyurl.com/y7csfnaj
#IFSReport2023 #ForestSurvey #IndiaForestReport
#IndiaForestSurvey
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Faculty #hiring at @AshokaUniv.
Please help spread the word. We’re looking for scholars with an exciting research profile in the #SocialSciences.
#AcademicTwitter
#JobAlert
We have an opening for a tenure track Assistant Prof. position in the Dept. of Environmental Studies at @AshokaUniv. This position is specifically for scholars from the Social Sciences. Will be grateful if you spread the word. Thanks.
apply.interfolio.com/153065
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"Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own..."
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Conservation sees itself as a crisis discipline. An unquestioning allegiance and support to ongoing solutions often seems more urgent than a critical framing and understanding of problems. Yet, such a critical view is vital for a thoughtful and creative practise of conservation.
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📢 PhD vacancy alert! 📢
At @SDC_WUR, we have several exciting PhD vacancies coming up in the next week(s), including one on:
Peri-urban land and water commons in the Global North and South
Supervised by @SumitVij19 & Jeroen Warner
@PolEcoNet @WUR
wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd-of-per…
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Another CfP from my side for #POLLEN2024 Dodoma, TZ site. On how political ecologists could be change agents in local/global wildlife conservation practice. Details👇🏻. Abstracts by December 1. Bring forward your stories of change, you political ecologists😀@PolEcoNet.
Are you working on #connectivity and conservation? Do consider submitting an abstract for a panel at #POLLEN24 on the Political Ecology of Connectivity and Conservation politicalecologynetwork.org/… @PolEcoNet @sayan12011991
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When in Bengaluru, please join!
Workshop: Reimagining #Conservation Futures
4 October 2023
To register please fill this form: forms.gle/Mo3NnRyuFSSTqoQC8
For questions please write to: [email protected] @ananda_sid @anthfletch @convivconserv @ShelbyMatevich @SDC_WUR
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Ukraine has been known as Europe’s breadbasket for centuries. Now that Russia has invaded the country, food insecurity could be exacerbated in the many developing countries that depend on Ukraine for their sustenance, writes @alexjmssmith.
buff.ly/3t4cc6y
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Brilliantly researched article by @sciencebwoy is a must read for those who want to understand why calls by the Global North to move towards plant-based diets are not just based on flawed data but also ignorance of food security in the Global South.
theindiaforum.in/article/mea…
Contestations and conflicts need to be anticipated and dealt with rather than just reacting to them. Important points brought up in this discussion.
#ETMorningBriefPodcast | The rise in renewable energy projects is at crossroads with endangered wildlife. Hear experts @abi_vanak (@atree_org), @mdmadhusudan, @Rwanderful, (@NSEFI_official) & @mohantee as they discuss the road ahead, with @Nehal_ET bit.ly/3xu3G15
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Denotify protected areas and put them up for "sustainable mining"! India's conservation story in 10 words.
Forest panel of Indian govt's environment ministry has cleared proposal for red sandstone mining in 400 hectares forest area of a denotified wildlife sanctuary in Rajasthan and iron & manganese ore mining in 400 ha in a pristine forest area of Karnataka.
india.mongabay.com/2021/06/i…
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4/4. How can the very media whose owners directly profit from the farm laws, and/or from the advertising power of those whose names the farmers are chanting, ever tell you the truth about those laws or much else?
#FarmersProtests #media
So important in today's age of instant media. Unfortunately, today "get it right" is often trumped (pun intended) by "get it first"
Verify before reporting: What Trump's comments on Lebanon blast, Czechoslovakias velvet revolution and an incident during the Gujarat riots, teach. My #notebook @the_hindu
thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/v…
The parallel cinema movement in India of the late 1970s & 80s portrayed the people's perspective. Unfortunately, this enterprise nearly disappeared by the 90s, perhaps due to liberalisation. Today cinema that can do that job, if it wishes to, that is bit.ly/3dmcQ5d
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Standing up for anti-racism movements around the world is great, but I wish my fellow citizens confronted discrimination out here too.
vice.com/en_in/article/pkyg9…
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When regulatory processes meant to safeguard and conserve our environment themselves aid—rather than avert—its destruction, there is a fundamental problem that needs fixing. @prernabindra and I write about our experience in @thewire_in @TheWireScience.
science.thewire.in/environme…
Destroy forests. Plant new trees and allude to "age old traditions". Repeat endlessly. Good plan.
On #WorldEnvironmentDay announced the Urban Forest scheme to develop 200 ‘Nagar Van’ across the country in next 5 years.
This will help revive the age old tradition of village forest in cities.
#ForNature