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Recent News

  • 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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