Snails on the Plate: Edible Freshwater Molluscs of Northeast India

Anushree Jadhava,b, Nipu Kumar Dasa,b, Maitreya Sila & N A Aravind Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge | May 29, 2023 In many parts of the world, freshwater molluscs are extensively harvested for food and medicine. Northeast India is one such region where freshwater molluscs are consumed by the tribal and economically impoverished communities. These molluscs […]

Roof of the World: Home and Border in the Genomic Era

Wa Da, Suresh K. Rana,  Kamal Bawa, Krushnamegh Kunte, Zhengyang Wang Molecular Ecology Resource | May 26, 2023 Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau, known as the ‘land of snow’ and the ‘roof of the world’, is home to tens of millions of indigenous people who live with a staggering amount of biological diversity. In the […]

Elephants in the farm – changing temporal and seasonal patterns of human-elephant interactions in a forest-agriculture matrix in the Western Ghats, India

Anoop N.R, Siddhartha Krishnan, T. Ganesh Frontiers in Conservation Science | 24 May, 2023 Accelerating levels of human-elephant conflicts (HEC) have become a topic of major concern in conservation efforts of endangered Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) throughout their range. Wayanad plateau (WP) is a key summer habitat of Asian elephants in the Brahmagri-Nilgiri Eastern Ghats […]

Silvicultural practices in the management of Diospyros melanoxylon (Tendu) leaf production: options and trade‑offs

Anuja Anil Date , Ankila J. Hiremath, Atul Arvind Joshi and Sharachchandra Lele Economic Botany | 23 March 2023 Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are known to provide livelihoods for forest-based communities across the world. While ensuring the sustainability of NTFP harvests is a key challenge, optimizing the production of NTFPs through appropriate silvicultural practices is […]

How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration

Sara Löfqvist, Fritz Kleinschroth, Adia Bey, Ariane de Bremond, Ruth DeFries, Jinwei Dong, Forrest Fleischman, Sharachchandra Lele, Dominic A Martin, Peter Messerli, Patrick Meyfroidt, Marion Pfeifer, Sarobidy O Rakotonarivo, Navin Ramankutty, Vijay Ramprasad, Pushpendra Rana, Jeanine M Rhemtulla, Casey M Ryan, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Geoff J Wells, Rachael D Garrett BioScience | December 14, […]