VNC Wins ATREE TNK Award for Wildlife Conservation Efforts
Bengaluru’s Shrinking Green Cover Sparks Policy Scrutiny
Once known as India’s “Garden City,” Bengaluru is now confronting an ecological tipping point as decades of rapid, unplanned urbanisation have slashed its green cover from nearly 70% in the 1970s to under 7% today. New analysis shows that this drastic loss has intensified the city’s Urban Heat Island effect, with neighbourhoods such as Marathahalli, […]
ATREE Holds Gangtok Workshop With Experts to Draft Monitoring Guidelines for Khangchendzonga Landscape
ATREE, The Himalaya Initiative under its Action for Mountains and People programme, organised a two-day workshop on November 28-29, in Gangtok to develop a long-term biodiversity and socio-ecological monitoring guideline for the Khangchendzonga Landscape.
Diversifying Beyond Rice to Cut Losses and Improve Alternative Cereal Yields
Cropping decisions involve multiple factors and the farmer’s willingness to shift crops is governed by the larger economics of the cultivation process explains Shrinivas Badiger, a Fellow at Water and Society at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bengaluru.
The Elusive Mishmi Takin Faces New Challenges In Its Changing Habitat
A 2019 study published in Global Ecology and Conservation highlighted a significant lack of field data, emphasising the need for focused research. In 2024, the Arunachal Pradesh Forest Department, in partnership with the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and funded by ATREE, launched a comprehensive survey to map the species’ distribution and population.
Harriers Arrive With the Onset of Winter to Shrinking Grasslands
About a week back, in mid-November, researchers at Bengaluru-based ATREE were alerted to data transmitted from a small 9.5 gm transmitter connected to the back of a bird. The Pallid Harrier, geo-tagged by them, has reached its roosting ground in Tirunelveli, all the way from Kazakhstan.
Experts Call for Mapping, Reclassification of India’s ‘wastelands’ to Protect Grasslands and Wetlands
A high-level panel convened by WestBridge-supported Centre for Policy Design (CPD) at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE) has called for reclassification of India’s wastelands. A classification and management of grasslands, wetlands, pastures and commons, including Orans and Gochar land, may help unlock their ecological and economic values, the panel said.
NCBS, ATREE Scientists Urge New Approach to Hybrid Animals in Biodiversity Conservation
Researchers from across the globe, including from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), have sought a reconsideration of how hybrid animals and birds are viewed in biodiversity conservation. The demand, in the form of a report titled- ‘Hybrids Along a Natural-Anthropogenic Gradient: Improving Policy and Management Across All Levels of Biodiversity’, was also published […]
Experts Call for Mapping, Reclassification of India’s “Wastelands” to Protect Grasslands and Wetlands
A high-level panel convened by ATREE called for reclassification of India’s wastelands to unlock ecological and economic value.
Central Institute of Indian Languages Develops Dictionary for Soligas, Plans Visual Documentation of Their Knowledge
Madegowda C., project manager at ATREE, highlighted Birsa Munda’s enduring legacy and the historical role of Adivasi communities as custodians of forests.
