Sandhya Sekar

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Making maps to protect fishing villages around Chennai

Landless farmers in the Indian Himalayas suffer from weakening social bonds

There are Sarus cranes in my paddy field: changing community perceptions to conserve a threatened bird

A new species of shark from studying fish by-catch

India’s first attempt at regulating fishing trawlers underway

Harriers that winter in India are declining

They show sea life on the sea shore

Gharials of Gandak: A population back from the brink faces development pressures

Swimming camels, mangrove islands of Kutch face mounting challenges

Cordyceps, the Himalayan Viagra, kindles fortunes and begets plunder

All creatures great and small: Best of Almost Famous species 2018

Not all that green? Wind farms have a cascading effect on local wildlife

Apps for animals: Conservation tech’s new frontier

Photos: The Dongrias of Niyamgiri revive climate-resilient heirloom seeds

Smartphones to map invasive plants in Tamil Nadu

Tussles between plants and their enemies drive forest fragment diversity

[Video] Pangolins suffer in Assam to fuel illegal international wildlife trade

(Commentary) Workplace well-being within ecology and conservation academic circles in India

India’s sharks and rays: an ancient species on the brink of extinction

Mining devours Saranda, the largest sal forest in Asia

[Commentary] Fires, leopards, boars and migration: the complex story of a simple people

Can we bank on seed banks? Priority should be to conserve natural habitats, feel experts

[Commentary] Will there be political will to deal with air pollution in an election year?

A blood-red, snake-like burrowing fish from Meghalaya

Bihar’s wetlands are on a ventilator, but there is still hope from the ground

[Commentary] Hot and dry: What plants do when pushed to their very limits

When drought and extreme heat strike forests at the same time

[Book review] “Were conservation a Facebook status, it would read: It’s (very) complicated”

Following the sound trail: pulling India’s cicadas out of oblivion

Why land degradation in India has increased and how to deal with it

[Interview] Urban birds can be the ideal ‘canary in the mine’ if we are willing to accept their signs

A lost desi cotton heritage

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