Reconciling multiple goals in landscapes across India
DeFries participates in collaboration to reconcile multiple goals in landscapes across India, published in Nature Sustainability. Open source preprint is here. Summary of the paper is here.
Pooja Choksi publishes on restoration in Central India
Pooja Choksi’s paper on soundscapes in restoration sites in central India is published in Restoration Ecology. Press coverage is here.
Current Conservation on tiger connectivity
PhD student Jay Schoen publishes popular science article on tiger connectivity in central India.
DeFries Science policy forum
DeFries and colleagues publish policy forum on the land sector in the carbon market
Project Dhvani
Check out Sounds of Restoration from Project Dhvani here and here
tiger connectivity in central India
Jay Schoen and Amrita Neelakantan co-lead a synthesis of landscape connectivity for tigers in central India. Press coverage here, here, here, and here.
Michael Levin paper
PhD student Michael Levin was first-author on a paper “Using publicly available data to conduct rapid assessments of extinction risk” published in Conservation Science and Practice.
Sarika paper on tiger trade
Sarika Khanwilkar was first author on a paper “Patterns of illegal and legal tiger parts entering the United States over a decade (2003-2012)” in Conservation Science and Practice. Media coverage is here, here, here, and here.
Pooja Nat Geo grant
Phd student Pooja Choksi, along with Krishna Anujan, Sarika Khanwilkar, Vijay Ramesh, and Pooja Gupta won the Meridian Collaborative Grant from National Geographic for the project “Soundscapes and stories: a locally replicable model for conservation using a biocultural approach” to be conducted in central India and the Western Ghats
Pooja on podcast
PhD student Pooja Choksi spoke to the host of the podcast, The Subverse, Susan Mathews about what ecological restoration means to different people and how to measure it using novel tools like acoustics in central India.
