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....
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Satvik Parashar
- Jul 24
- 4 min
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...
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Satvik Parashar
- May 3
- 3 min
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...
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Satvik Parashar
- Oct 7, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Pakhi Das
- Sep 23, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Mar 3, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Feb 10, 2022
- 4 min
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....
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Conserving Central India
- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Oct 19, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Oct 4, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Sep 23, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Sep 20, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Aug 9, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Jul 25, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Conserving Central India
- Jun 7, 2021
- 3 min
Decadal land use dynamics of upper catchment of Narmada: 1980 – 2018
~ by Amrita Neelakantan The Narmada river has shaped much of the central Indian landscape. It is also known as “Life Line of Madhya...
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Conserving Central India
- Jun 3, 2021
- 2 min
Eavesdropping on the forests of India with Project Dhvani
~ by Mansi Monga Project Dhvani takes you into the world of forests like never before. In 2018, NCCI members – Pooja Choksi, Sarika...
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Conserving Central India
- Mar 23, 2021
- 4 min
Combatting road kill – how animal behavior and traffic data can help
~ by Aditi Patil Rapidly growing road networks contribute to a country’s social and economic development, but this contribution comes at...
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Conserving Central India
- Feb 23, 2021
- 4 min
The roles played by NGOs for responsive governance of forests
~ by Mansi Monga The Forest Rights Act enacted by the Parliament in 2006 makes a provision for Community Forest Resource Rights (CFR...
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