Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment

2017

• Why My Conservation Colleagues Are Altruistic Patriots
• Save the Ganga, Sully the Ganga
• New research paper: The global impacts of domestic dogs on threatened vertebrates
• Weeding begins at Bellandur Lake
• Making profit out of the Lantana camara
• Officials slept while Bellandur lake frothed and foamed
• Take part in neighbourhood tree survey
• New journal paper: Grain storage losses in traditional tribal settlements
• Tamil Nadu fishing ban
• Community forest rights in critical tiger habitats under threat
• Sikkim's orange farmers suffer due to switch to organic farming
• New research paper: Forest protection in Central India
• To save an ecology less-explored
• New issue of Eastern Ghats newsletter
• Species Adulteration in Herbal Trade: Causes, Consequences and Mitigation
• New record of Brilliant Agama lizard in Gujarat
• Study shows eating red meat, small dietary changes can help India’s water crisis
• Broken up by man, killed by inbreeding
• New research paper: A dynamic framework for water security
• The taxa files
• Mountain tourism - the Gorkhey story
• BWSSB relaxes STP rule for apartments
• Darjeeling's small farmers are losing 40% of their crop to raiding wild animals
• Bengaluru reuses a meagre 1% of its waste water
• Rejuvenate all irrigation tanks
• Water Day message: Use it judiciously or face trouble
• Why does rabies still plague India in the 21st century?
• Saving every drop
• Sound wave technology to collect data about dolphins
• ATREE dolphin conservation workshop in Bihar
• ATREE researcher wins New India Foundation Fellowship
• New policy for purchase of organic compost
• Organic tea, biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing
• Tirupur’s gain, Bengaluru’s bane
• Colonial legacy plant destroying Karnataka’s forests
• Invasive species in the Nilgiris fueling human-animal conflict
• Garbage mafia has given rise to illegal dumping sites
• Sanitary waste disposal still an issue
• Making profit out of waste
• Apartments segregate trash, contractors mix it up
• Drought, forest fires and invasive lantana
• National policy to recover endangered species
• Defining forests to facilitate industry
• Fishing in Ganga's troubled waters
• Water conflict threatens vulnerable species
• Decline of harrier population hurts farmers
• Moyar Valley, a refuge for critically endangered species of vulture
• ATREE's CHANSE research study in Gandak River
• Kaziranga-BBC row
• Rare sighting of reclusive vulture in Nilgiris
• Plastic poses threat to Vembanad Lake
• ATREE book on Invertebrate Conservation in the Western Ghats
• Community-based fish sanctuaries in Vembanad Lake
• Solar Rooftop Photovoltaics: poor implementation
• Fishers tackle pollution in Vembanad lake
• Waste management: What can fast-growing small cities learn from Bengaluru
• Private companies may manage waste mop up in Bengaluru
• India unlikely to meet reforestation targets
• A tree cut is not the same as a tree planted
• PhD scholar records 200 species of ants in Arunachal wildlife sanctuary
• Improved cookstoves boost health and forest cover in the Himalayas
• When wild animals treat themselves in farmers’ farms
• Waterfowls feel the heat, give local tanks a miss
• 80% fall in arrival of birds to wetlands
• Southern wetlands record fewer winged visitors after monsoon failure
• Do animals have rights?
• Has Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan actually worked for women and children?
• Chennai oil spill
• India's waterways development plans
• Stray puppies to find warm homes
• The Steve Jobs of Sustainability
• For a sustainable future
• The saviours of Edeyaralli wildlife corridor
• Take a bite of insects
• K.J. Joy gets TN Khoshoo award
• ATREE comes up with models for saving Vembanad lake
• Fates of forests could change for the better with just the name
• Making sustainability profitable
• What’s in a name? The future of an ecosystem, apparently
• Indian cities need drain water treatment
• Tamirabharani Waterbird Count 2017 on February 4
• ATREE@20 Conference
• Vembanad chokes under plastic waste
• Press: The man who listens to trees
• New paper in Ambio on livestock depredation by dogs
• New research paper: Amphibians of Sikkim Himalaya
• Threats to Chambal river gharials
• ATREE's Sharachchandra Lele becomes member of MOEFCC Expert Appraisal Committee
• New frog discovered in coastal Karnataka
• Press: Journey of Montagu's Harrier to be charted
• Press: Government's culling decisions
• Press: Yelahanka Power Plant could kill Jakkur Lake
• New EPW paper on water governance
• Press: Peenya effluent getting into veggies
• Op-ed: India's invasive species problem

2016

• Op-ed: BWSSB’s wrong approach
• Op-ed: Turning turtle
• Press: Citizen-led project helps change scientific view of frog species
• Op-ed: An inclusive oil palm policy for people and biodiversity
• Press: Pulp paper trees may take over 1000 acres of grasslands in Paruthipadu
• Press: Mobile emission checking units to smoke out polluters in Bengaluru
• Press: In Tamil Nadu fishermen protest a four month fishing ban aimed at protecting sea turtles
• Arkavathy Community Dissemination Workshop on October 20, 2016
• Apartment level waste-water treatment and reuse in Bengaluru: Dissemination meeting
• Ganga dredging threatens dolphins, Scroll.in, September 7th 2016
• Adapting to climate change in urbanizing watersheds: National workshops in New Delhi, Bengaluru and Coimbatore
• Interview: Ecological burden posed by feral dogs
• Popular article: Darjeeling tea GI tagpresents challenges for small growers
• Op-ed: Changes in pollution board undermine accountability
• Seminar: Linking Rivers, Barrages and Fish Migration
• New research paper: Forest dwelling Adivasi farmers shifting to cash crops
• Arkavathy study wins 2015 Jim Dooge Award for best paper from European Geophysical Union
• New research paper: Protected area size puts tigers at risk in tropical dry forests
• New research paper: Climate change may reduce habitat for swampy trees in the Western Ghats
• Adapting to Climate Change in Urbanising Watersheds, National Dissemination Workshop: Aug. 22-23, 2016, IIC-Annexe, New Delhi
• Workshop: Water in the Arkavathy sub-basin: Status, concerns and future under climate change
• National workshop on “Managing surface water quality in urbanizing watersheds”
• Workshop: Water in Noyyal sub-basin: status, concerns and future under climate change change
• Changes in pollution board undermine accountability, Op-Ed in Deccan Herald
• ATREE awarded Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) Asia Section's Distinguished Service Award
• Faculty Position: Forests & Governance
• Press coverage on ATREE's work on Bangalore Lakes
• ATREE co-hosts INSEE conference
• Neergantis of the Arkavathy Basin - traditional occupations lost forever
• ATREE@20 Event: Round Table Discussion on Interdisciplinarity in Environmental Research, 4 January 2016
• Faculty positions in new programme on climate change

2015

• Arkavathy study wins 2015 Jim Dooge Award for best paper from European Geophysical Union
• ATREE @ American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference, 2015
• Faith and Ecology Partnerships 2015
• Dr Navroz Dubash was awarded the TN Khoshoo Memorial Award 2015
• Intruder Alert! India Biodiversity Portal Organizes Invasive Species Campaign
• Dr. Kamal Bawa elected Fellow to the Royal Society of London: Induction on July 10, 2015 ...more

2013

• First Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons to Harini Nagendra
• 10^th TN Khoshoo Memorial Award and Lecture on 7 December, New Delhi
• 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.

2012

• Sandesh Kadur wins BBC camera-trap photo award for rare tiger behaviour image...more
• ATREE ranks 19th among world's environment think tanks...more

2011

• Work begins on three-year project on climate change in urbanizing watersheds...more
• The Khoshoo Earthian Trophy 2011-12 winners are Rishi Valley School and IIM, Kozhikode ...more
• Two ATREE researchers receive the 2012 Encyclopedia of Life Rubenstein Fellowships ...more
• The Western Ghats Portal team is organising a one-day workshop on Biodiversity Informatics on Nov 25. Plenaries will be on technology behind Biodiversity Informatics, scientific commons and policy and biodiversity portals in India. Venue, ATREE. More...
• Forest dependent communities put a weed to good use ...more
• Schools show the way for waste management...more

2010

• Biligiri Tiger Reserve: Include Soligas in conservation plan. Article by Nitin Rai, ATREE and Ashish Kothari, Kalpavriksh in Deccan Herald. ...more
• Tirunelveli, Tuticorin tanks, wetlands attract migratory birds ...more
• Better management of invasive plants needed more...
• SAARC canopy science workshop seeks better infrastructure facilities ...more
• Ecology and environment awareness build among children at BRT field trip more...
• ATREE inks MoU with Oregon State University more...
• Man vs beast conflict in BRT Wildlife Sanctuarymore...
• ACCC campaigns for cleaner forests at KMTR more...
• Workshop on Integrated Eco-system Modelling more...
• Vacation Training Programme at ATREE more...
• Debut of 'Nature Talkies' at Agasthyamalai CCC more...
• Inland fisheries bill workshop - more...
• Vembanad Fish Count 2010 - news reports
• Vembanad Fishcount 2010, on 26th and 27th May 2010 programme
• TN Khoshoo Memorial Lecture 2010: Dr RK Pachauri on the Scientific and Ethical Dimensions of Climate Changemore...
• Kashmira Kakati finds 7 cat species in Eastern Himalayas - National Geographic News more...
• Nature Guide release at KMTR more...
• Wetland day celebration in Vembanad more...
• Creating a Community Conservation Reserve more...
• ‘Environment Education for the School Teachers’, MM hills, Malai Mahadeshwara Hills, Kollegal, Chamrajanagara, Karnataka, 26-27 February, 2010. more...
• Call for applications - CEPF-ATREE Western Ghats Small Grants Feb 2010 more...
• Dr Kamal Bawa to serve on GANGES more...
• Tricho-cards to face pest threat in Kuttanad more...
• Dr. Balachander as one of the 8 Consortium Directors of the CGIAR
• Last date for submitting proposals to the ATREE Small Grants Programme: 12th Jan 10 more...
• Call for proposals: CEPF-ATREE Western Ghats Large Grants more...

2009

• Openings for Short-term assignment in Delhi and Bangalore more...
• Using Informatics Tools to Enhance the Productivity of Canopy Researchers, a handson training session at Canopy-2009 international conference more...
• YETI (Young Ecologists Talk and Interact ) 2009, a conference at the IISc, Bangalore, from 24 - 26 Sept Apply Now
• Openings for faculty positions in Environment and Development more..
• 5th International Canopy Conference 2009 more...
• Vembanad lake - plastic cleanup campaign more...
• ATREE is a member of the KSCST more...
• Theatre methods in wetland conservation more...
• Ryutaro Hashimoto APFED Gold Award for ATREE more...
• Distinguished Service Award for Dr Kamal Bawa more...
• ATREE Annual Report - 2007/08 more...
• Ecosystem Services Valuation: a workshop more...
• Application of Interdisciplinary Tenets: 'Social Science for Natural Scientists' Workshop more...
• Community World Environment Day, ATREE Bangalore more...
• Promoting Exchange between Disciplines: ATREE Seminar 2009 more...
• Vembanad Fish Count 2009: Getting Stakeholders Together more...
• CISED Merges with ATREE more...
• ATREE has a new address more...
• Future of Conservation in India Network more...
• Wipro Fellowship for Conservation / Environment Education at ATREE more...
• ATREE Seminar - 2009 , Book of Abstracts Download pdf
• Invitation to volunteer for the Vembanad Fish Count - 2009 Download pdf
• ATREE Eastern Himalaya team is glad to announce the issue-2.1 of the newsletter 'RED PANDA' Download pdf
• KMTR team is glad to announce the issue-3.1 of the newsletter 'Agasthya' Download pdfmore...
• ATREE Small Grants for research in Northeast India: Call for proposals Background note and Application guidelinesRequest for proposal
• Admissions for the Doctoral Research Programme in Conservation Science, Environment, and Development - 2009 more...
• ATREE Eastern Himalaya team is glad to announce the issue-1.3 of the newsletter 'RED PANDA' Download pdfmore...
• 5th International Canopy Conference 2009 will be organized by ATREE during October 25th -31st 2009. The theme for the conference is Forest canopies: Conservation, Climate change and Sustainable use - For more info...
• KMTR team is glad to announce the issue-2.3 of the newsletter 'Agasthya' Download pdfmore...

2008

• India Biodiversity Portal was launched on 15th December 2008 at Infosys, Bangalore more..
• Call for Grant Applications Western Ghats CEPF-ATREE more..
• ATREE, Bangalore, India invites proposals from individuals for research projects under its Small Grants program more..
• Western Ghats Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)-ATREE Project more..
• Conference on Plant invasives in the Tropics: Ecology, Management and Livelihoods more..
• Openings for Senior Program Officers more..
• KMTR team is glad to announce the issue-2.2 of the newsletter 'Agasthya' Download pdfmore...
• Openings for Convenor- The Academy of Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies more..
• Openings for Post-doctoral Fellows in Conservation Science more..
• Coastal Management Zone '08 - The Last Nail in the Coffin" by Aarthi Sridhar, Manju Menon, Sudarshan Rodriguez and Seema Shenoy..more
• Conservation Education in BRT Wildlife Sanctuary - An update ..more
• FoC co-organized a two-day National Workshop on Critical Tiger Habitats and Critical Wildlife Habitats at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on May 8th and 9th 2008. ..more
• International conference on " Invasive plants in the Tropics: Ecology, Management and Livelihoods" from 5th -6th January 2009, Bangalore, India. ..more
• Forest Fires in India - Workshop Proceedings ...Download PDF
• Openings for Fellow positions in the Conservation Genetics and Ecoinformatics more..
• Invitation to volunteer for the Vembanad Fish Count - 2008 more...Download Invitation
• Small Grants Programme now accepting proposals more...
• Vacation Training Program on Bio-Resources from 12th May - 31st May 2008 more..[Download Application Form]
• Opening for senior positions in the EHP more..
• KMTR team is glad to announce the issue-2.1 of the newsletter 'Agasthya' Download pdfmore...
• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) Small Grants Programme – Eastern Himalayas (India): Call for Second Round of Proposals. Download the following documents --> [cfp_cso][cfp_doctoral_theses][cepf_2nd_round][Matrix_sites][Matrix_species]
• Opening for Research Associate - Coastal Programme Orissa more..Download pdf
• DR. T.N. Khoshoo Memorial Award and Lecture 2008 more..Press releaseBrochure
• Opening for Human Resources Officer more..
• ATREE announces its doctoral research programme in Conservation Science more..
• Opening for Communication Officer/Assistant Communication Officer more..
• Opening for Head - Finance more..
• Opening for Project Coordinator - Western Ghats more..Download PDF
• Opening for Coordinator, World Biodiversity Heritage Programme - Assam more..Download PDF
• Vembanad team is glad to announce the first issue of the newsletter 'Vembanad' Download pdfmore...
• Opening for Faculty positions in Social Sciences more..Download PDF
• Conservation on a sound and participatory footing-Identification of inviolate areas (Critical Tiger Habitats and Critical Wildlife Habitats) and community involvement in these processes. more..
• Anti-Plastic Campaign at KMTR more..
• Conservation Assessment and Planning of Kallar Elephant Corridor, Nilgiris Landscape Download Final ReportDownload Executive Summary
• Nomination for the Khoshoo Award 2008 more...
• KMTR team is glad to announce the third issue of the newsletter 'Agasthya' Download pdfmore...

2007

• Small Grants Programme now accepting proposals more...
• Report on Lantana Mela 2007 held at MM Hills on October 6th 2007. Download PDF
• Report of the Inauguration of the JALAPAADOM (Lessons on water) program Download PDF
• Third Lantana Mela at MM Hills Invitationmore...
• Inauguration of Jalapaadom: Wetland Conservation Education Program by Minister of Education and Culture, Kerala on 4th October at Alappuzha Download PDF
• SriLanka forest department officials arrive on study tour ...more
• Workshop on Ecological Niche Modelling (ENM) organised in Bangalore ...more
• Anti-Plastic campaign at Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve more...
• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), India: Call for Proposals for Small Grants Programme Download: Call for proposalsBackground note
• Internship Opportunity at Vanastree - the Malnad Forest Garden and Seed Keepers' Collective ...more
• ATREE and other conservation organisations urge PM to save tiger habitats ...more
• ATREE Small Grants Programme - call for applications ...more
• ATREE Research Seminar 2007 - Governance and Policy was held at Prakruthi, Blore ...more
• TN Khoshoo Award 2007 for Dr. BR Ramesh ...more

2006

• The first Community-based Conservation Centre (CCC) was inaugurated on the 13th of March 2006 at Mangammal Salai, Natham. ...more
• Doctoral research programme in conservation science starting in June 2007 ...more
• Small Grants Programme now accepting proposals more...
• Summary of a workshop on wildland fires in India held in Madurai, from February 19-22, 2007. ...more
• Defining Forests in the Indian context ...more
• Book launch: Birds in our Lives ...more
• J.R.S Biodiversity foundation has awarded ATREE with a 2 year grant to help increase the conceptual and practical understanding of informatics and emergent properties of information systems related to biodiversity throughout India. ...more
• ATREE-NORAGRIC Academic and Research partnership launched ...more
• 4th Vacation Program on Environmental Resources:2006-07, Written Test Results Group-IGroup-II
• Field Workshop on Pollination Ecology ...more
• Bannerghatta Butterfly Park inaugurated ...more
• ATREE and Centre for Media Studies, New Delhi organized a symposium on 'Managing Electronic Waste' on 6 October at Alliance Francaise de Bangalore....more
• 4th Vacation Program on Environmental Resources:2006-07, Download the application form Doc file
• 2nd Vacation Programme on Natural Resources (VPNR-2006) being conducted by ATREE, supported by Ministry of Environment and Forests. ...more
• GBIF in close collaboration with the Biodiversity Research Center (The University of Kansas), the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the ATREE and the NCL, India, are pleased to announce the 3rd GBIF training workshop on Ecological Niche Modeling from 13th-17th November 2006 at Bangalore, India. ...more
• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) India: Call for Letters of Intent Download pdf
• "Consultation Workshop on National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA) for Biodiversity Conservation in North East India" - organised by ATREE, under the aegis of the MoEF, GoI and with the support of UNDP, on the 26th of August 2006 at Shillong, Meghalaya. For further details contact ncsa@atree.org
• Dr. M. Soubhadra Devy, Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) has been awarded the Lowell Thomas Award for 2006....more
• Inviting papers for Regional Conference (s) on Scope of Production Forestry for Carbon Sequestration ...more
• Inviting papers for National Workshop on NTFP Taxation Policies and Management, New Delhi, 20-21 November 2006 ...more
• New book on 'Marine Turtles of the Indian subcontinent' by Kartik Shanker and B.C. Choudhury ...more
• Energy and Conservation: Dr. T.N. Khoshoo Memorial Lecture (2006) by Prof. David Ehrenfeld Download pdf
• Noted environmental activist Dr. Anupam Mishra of the Gandhi Peace Foundation has been awarded the Dr. T.N. Khoshoo Memorial Award for 2006. ...more
• ATREE has been awarded DR. APJ Abdul Kalam "PARISARA PRASHASTI" ...more
• International Workshop on Forest Canopies and Sustainable Livelihoods, 11-14 June 2006 ...more
• Inviting papers for the book on "Invertebrate Diversity and Conservation in the Western Ghats" ...more
• Vacation Program on Bioresources, held at Blore from 2nd May to 30th May, 2006 ...more
• Vacation Program on Bioresources, from 15th May to 11th June, 2006 ...more
• 2nd Vacation Program on Natural Resources, from 15th May to 11th June, 2006 ...more
• Book: Hydrology and Watershed Services in the Western Ghats of India ...more
• National Workshop on Eco-Tourism Policy, Gangtok, Sikkim, 28 march 2006. Download pdf
• List of shortlisted candidates for the 3rd Vacation Program on Environment Resources, 2006 Download PDF
• ATREE Research Seminar was held at Doddi's resort near Yelahanka, Bangalore on 6th and 7th of January, 2006 for more details...

2005

• Article about ATREE in community page of PLOS Biology Print PDF Onscreen PDF
• Sahyadris: India's Western Ghats - a vanishing heritage more...
• II Conference of the Western Ghats Forum - 'Integrating Science and Management of Biodiversity in the Western Ghats', December 1 & 2, 2005more...
• The ATREE Small Grants Programme (supported by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust) seeks to increase the understanding of the current state of ecosystems and evolve mechanisms to conserve these ecosystems more...
• ATREE launched Ecoinformatics center at Bangalore on 13th May 2005, which is the first of its kind in India for spatially enabled Ecological Data.more...