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Member Profile - Soumik Banerjee
1. How did your journey begin? What drew you to conservation work and when did you start? When I joined PRADAN in the year 2000, I was...
Conserving Central India
Oct 21, 20245 min read
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Member Profile - Vipul Gupta
1. How did your journey begin? - What drew you to conservation work and when did you start? I have had a deep connection with the ...
Conserving Central India
May 29, 20244 min read
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Member Profile - Ameen Charles
1. How did your journey begin? - What drew you to conservation work and when did you start? After completing my college education, I...
Conserving Central India
Feb 9, 20244 min read
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Member Profile - Prajakta Hushangabadkar
1. How did your journey begin? - What drew you to conservation work and when did you start? Growing up in the suburban area of Amravati...
Conserving Central India
Nov 15, 20235 min read
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Ethnobotanical research on local medicinal plant use in Central India
Around 60-80% of India's population relies on plant-based medicines for primary healthcare despite the availability of modern treatments....
Dhruvika Lakhmani
Jul 24, 20234 min read
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Detecting Forest and Agriculture Burned Areas of Central India
Biomass burning is a global environmental concern that leads to loss of vegetation, pollution and health hazards. Therefore, it is...

Satvik Parashar
Jul 24, 20234 min read
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Quantifying Ecological Restoration by Analyzing Sounds in a Tropical Dry Forest
Restoration of degraded forests and lands worldwide is given much-needed impetus within the United Nation’s decade of restoration, global...

Satvik Parashar
May 3, 20233 min read
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Effectiveness of Sentinel-2 Data in Quantifying Agriculture Residue Burning in Madhya Pradesh
​India is a hotspot for residue burning, which is driven by the limited time the farmers have to plant the next crop and a lack of...

Satvik Parashar
Oct 7, 20224 min read
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Field notes: Learning of and from the Kanha-Achanakmar Corridor
As part of the Coalition for Wildlife Corridors (CWC), some of my work at the NCCI is to create rich profiles of a few corridors for the...

Pakhi Das
Sep 23, 20223 min read
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Groundwater and its Association with Cropping Intensity
​~ By Satvik Parashar Cropping intensity is defined as the number of seasons in which crops are planted in a single year. An increase in...
Conserving Central India
Mar 3, 20224 min read
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How Bio-Climatic Factors and Climate Change Govern the Distribution of Major NTFP Species
~ By Satvik Parashar Species occurrence and their distributions are not random phenomenon but governed by a number of factors....
Conserving Central India
Feb 10, 20224 min read
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Ecotourism as an opportunity for many challenges in lesser-known protected areas of central India la
~ By Pakhi Das ​India has an established network of protected areas spread across the length and breadth of the country. Every year, the...
Conserving Central India
Jan 10, 20223 min read
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Hydrological Implications from Increasing Forest Cover in Agriculture Dominated Central India
~ By Satvik Parashar A recent study lead by Dr. Benjamin Clark explores the association of groundwater recharge and infiltration for...
Conserving Central India
Nov 10, 20214 min read
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Firewood, Forests, and Fringe Populations: A Socio-Economic Exploration of LPG Adoption in India
~Pakhi Das ​Credit: Sarika Ann Khanwilkar The latest Voluntary National Review Report (VNR) 2020 of India states that India has fully...
Conserving Central India
Oct 19, 20213 min read
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Migration and its Association with Household Assets and Forest Degradation
~ By Satvik Parashar ​A recent study by Sandra Baqui´ from Columbia University and co-authors (including some NCCI members) assesses the...
Conserving Central India
Oct 4, 20214 min read
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Measuring the Efficacy of the NCCI – How We Might Move Forward with Our Goals in Central India
~ By Satvik Parashar ​Conservation on a holistic level that maintains biodiversity as well as local livelihood requires collaborations...
Conserving Central India
Sep 23, 20214 min read
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Sensitivity of Seasonal Migration to Climatic Variability in Central India
~By Pakhi Das ​Extreme climatic events and variability are on the rise around the world, with varying implications for populations across...
Conserving Central India
Sep 20, 20214 min read
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Understanding the Association between Improved Household Living Standards and Reduced Forest Degrada
~ By Satvik Parashar ​Can improving household living standards help control forest degradation? Interdisciplinary researchers from...
Conserving Central India
Sep 13, 20213 min read
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Food Security: Understanding Seasonality and the Role of Multiple Cropping
~ by Satvik Parashar ​A recent study by interdisciplinary researchers ( from McGill University, Rutgers School of Public Health, Johns...
Conserving Central India
Aug 9, 20213 min read
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Agroforestry as an avenue for enhanced livelihoods, lower ungulate-crop raiding and PES in central I
~ by Satvik Parashar Since the last few decades, biodiversity conservation measures in India have largely been dependent on the creation...
Conserving Central India
Jul 25, 20214 min read
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