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Research Highlights

Wild edible plants as a link between habitat, need and culture

Wild edible plant use is a living link with the surrounding habitat. It not only meets subsistence level needs ...more

Frog song and climate science

An analysis of canopy and ground anuran activity combined with readings on climate could help us understand the effect of climate change on amphibian populations ...more

Once upon a lake

A report on Bengaluru’s system of lakes and canal networks makes recommendations for restoring a traditional, well-planned system of water bodies ...more

Academy Matters

Beautiful creatures to watch and study

Snakes always instill a sense of fear in humans. This fear drives us to kill snakes spotted in the backyard or in the neighbourhood ...more

Environmental learning in local languages

The bilingual Kalakad-Mundathurai Tiger Reserve field guide, Treasures on Tiger Tracks was an ambitious production in Tamil and English...more

Building a new generation of environmental leaders

How do you introduce young minds to questions a researcher might frame regarding the use and conservation of natural bio-resources? ...more

Policy & Outreach

FRA and future forest governance

Last month, the 20-member National Forest Rights Act Committee set up jointly by the MoEF and MoTA submitted its report ...more

Debatable Wetlands Conservation and Management Rules, 2009

The first draft Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2009, if applied in its present form, will exclude local communities from any say ...more

Initiating dialogue on NEPA

In response to the Ministry of Environment and Forest’s initiative to propose a new National Environmental Protection Authority (NEPA), a group of individuals from civil society...more

Himalaya: Mountains of Life first

Authors: Kamal Bawa, Sandesh Kadur
Common dryland trees of Karnataka

Authors: A. Kavitha, N. Deepthi, R. Ganesan, S. C. Gladwin Joseph
Invertebrate diversity and conservation in the Western Ghats

Authors: Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan, Soubadra Devy, Aravind Madhyastha, Subramanian, K. A., and Seena Narayanan
Forest Canopies of South Asia: A Glimpse

Authors: M. Soubadra Devy, T. Ganesh, Amrita Tripathy. 2012
Community-based Natural Resource Management. Issues and cases from South Asia

Authors: Ajit Menon, Praveen Singh, Esha Shah, Sharachchandra Lele, Suhas Paranjape, K.J. Joy
Conservation Biology: A Primer For South Asia

Authors: Kamaljit S Bawa, Richard B Primack and Meera Anna Oommen. 2011.
Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary: Natural History, Biodiversity and Conservation. Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra

Authors: Ganeshaiah, K.N., R. Uma Shaanker (eds), 1998
Exploring Options For Joint Forest Management In India

Authors: Dr. K.D. Singh, Dr. Bhaskar Sinha and Mr. S.D. Mukherji.
Fig Insects of Kerala. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 182. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India.

Authors: Rajan, Priyadarsanan Dharma,(2000)
Forest Genetic Resources: Status, Treats And Conservation Strategies. Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, India.

Authors: Uma Shaanker, R., Ganeshaiah, K.N., and Bawa, K.S. (eds), (2001),
Tropical Ecosystems: Structure, Diversity and Human Welfare. Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, India

Authors: Ganeshaiah, K.N., Uma Shaanker, R. and Bawa, K.S (eds), (2001),
Bamboos and Rattans of the Western Ghats: Population biology, Socio-economics and Conservation strategies, ATREE, IPGRI and UAS, Bangalore.

Authors: Uma Shaanker, R., Ganeshaiah, K. N., Srinivasan, K., Ramanatha Rao, V. and Hong, L.T. (2004).
A Decade of Diversity, Bangalore: ATREE and University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Authors: Ganeshaiah, K.N. and Uma Shaanker, R. (2003)
Sahyadris: India's Western Ghats - A vanishing heritage.

Authors: Sandesh Kadur, Bawa, K.S.,
Hydrology and watershed services in the Western Ghats: Effects of Land-cover and Land-use change. Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, India.

Authors: Krishnaswamy, J., Lele, S and Jayakumar, R. (2005) (Editors)
Treasures on Tiger Tracks - A Bilingual Nature Guide to Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve

Authors: Ganesh, T., R Ganesan, M Soubadra Devy, Jahnavi G Pai. 2009
Non-Timber Forest Products Conservation, Management and Policy in the Tropics.

Authors: Uma Shaanker, R., Ankila J. Hiremath, Gladwin Joseph and Nitin D Rai. 2009. (Eds).
Reforesting Landscapes Linking Pattern and Process Series: Landscape Series

Authors: Nagendra, Harini., Jane Southworth (Eds.)

Newsletters

Announcements

Applications to ATREE PhD programme in Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies closed
First in series of Environment and Development discussion papers from ATREE. Water management in Arkavathy basin: A situation analysis
Himalaya - Mountains of Life coffee table book by Kamal Bawa and Sandesh Kadur. Available on Amazon or from Felis Creations. here. Press kit for the Himalaya: Mountains of Life launch.
New positions@ATREE and...more

News and Events

First Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons to Harini Nagendra
Impact Himalayas: Kamal Bawa and Kadur interview on BBC World News post the Himalaya: Mountains of Life book launch in London on 15 May 2013. 8.43 minute clip on YouTube.

Publications

Kavitha, A., N. Deepthi, R. Ganesan, S. C. Gladwin Joseph. 2012. Common dryland trees of Karnataka: Bilingual field guide. Bengaluru: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Priyadarsanan D. R., S. Devy, Aravind N. A., Subramanian, K. A., and S. Narayanan. 2012. Invertebrate diversity and conservation in the Western Ghats. Bengaluru: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment

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