We are a network of researchers, NGOs and managers dedicated to conserving biodiversity, improving livelihoods, and fostering sustainable development in the landscapes of the Central Indian Highlands  through the application of science.

Recent News

• The Defries Bajpai Foundation (DBF) Small Grants Program is now open for the 2021 cycle. For more information please click here
• Applications for the course on 'Applied Rural Livelihoods' are open now.
  If you are a young professional, practitioner or an in-service personnel engaged in the science, policy, & practice of rural livelihoods, do check out this course by Dr.Sandeep Tambe, IIFM Bhopal.  Click here to Register.​
• Mahi Puri, NCCI member & a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida has won the Murray F. Buell 2021 award for excellence in Ecology for her outstanding oral presentation at the 2020 Ecological Society of America's Annual Meeting -“The balancing act: Maintaining leopard-wild prey equilibrium could offer economic benefits to people in a shared forest landscape of central India.”
• Shekhar Kolipaka, NCCI member, believes that listening is the key to building trust, especially with community members to understand what they find meaningful. Check out - his work on encouraging communities to conserve tigers in this profile by AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, & Religion.  ​                               

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