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					<title>[Interview] Vigyan awardee Purabi Saikia on the importance of mapping forest resources</title>
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					<pubDate>13 Sep 2024 16:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Simrin Sirur]]>
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						<![CDATA[Aditi Tandon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Purabi Saikia, an associate professor with the Department of Botany at Banaras Hindu University, is one of 18 scientists to win the Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar – a government honour recognising young scientists under the age of 45 who have made “exceptional contributions” to their field of study. A total of 33 scientists were awarded [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Purabi Saikia, an associate professor with the Department of Botany at Banaras Hindu University, is one of 18 scientists to win the Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar – a government honour recognising young scientists under the age of 45 who have made “exceptional contributions” to their field of study. A total of 33 scientists were awarded the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar &#8211; a national award recognising the contributions of outstanding researchers in the fields of science, technology and innovation &#8211; under various categories. A plant ecologist by specialisation, Saikia’s range of study is wide – from making assessments in plant diversity and composition to devising ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction strategies. Before joining Banaras Hindu University earlier this year, Saikia spent 12 years at the Central University of Jharkhand, teaching with the Department of Environmental Sciences. Saikia was conferred with the Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award, a category of the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar, on August 22 by the President. According to the award citation, her research publications “have potential for field applications and are also important as scientific evidence for policy planning.” Saikia spoke to Mongabay India about the importance of mapping forest resources and long-term monitoring of ecosystems. Edited excerpts below: Mongabay: What research questions motivate and interest you? Purabi Saikia: After completing my M.Sc. in botany from Guwahati University in Assam, where I specialised in plant ecology, I joined the lab of Professor M.L. Khan at the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology. There, I did my Ph.D. in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2024/09/interview-vigyan-awardee-purabi-saikia-on-the-importance-of-mapping-forest-resources/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A new remote sensing study spotlights Indian savannas</title>
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					<pubDate>12 Sep 2024 12:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Nikhil Sreekandan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Priyanka Shankar]]>
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							<![CDATA[India's Iconic Landscapes]]>
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							<![CDATA[New research from the University of Oxford and the University of Exeter examines savanna biome distribution and drivers through the lens of tree cover across India. Using remote sensing (the process of monitoring the physical characteristics of an area by measuring its radiation, typically from a satellite), the study analyses tree cover across forests and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[New research from the University of Oxford and the University of Exeter examines savanna biome distribution and drivers through the lens of tree cover across India. Using remote sensing (the process of monitoring the physical characteristics of an area by measuring its radiation, typically from a satellite), the study analyses tree cover across forests and savannas in the country. Tree cover is commonly used to differentiate between closed canopy forests and open canopy savannas, as seen in Africa, South America, and Australia. A similar pattern has also been studied in Southeast Asia. However, this is the first study to test the hypothesis India-wide, in an effort to try and achieve a broader understanding of the Indian savanna biome. What little we know about savannas has been derived from other continents, specifically Africa. For many people, the word ‘savanna’ conjures up an image of the Serengeti in Africa, vast grasslands dotted with trees and teeming with herds of zebras and antelopes. Unfortunately, this has also meant that the established concepts and theories about savannas come with little insight from Asian ecosystems. This critical knowledge gap is what the paper aims to fill, according to Trisha Gopalakrishna, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Exeter, and the lead author of the study. “There is so much research [on savannas] and we know all this theory, but it is all from different continents, there is not much from South and Southeast Asia,” begins Gopalakrishna. The study leverages the capabilities of satellite imagery&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2024/09/a-new-remote-sensing-study-spotlights-indian-savannas/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>[Commentary] Latest wetland mapping data underscores the need to step up conservation action</title>
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					<pubDate>11 Jul 2022 17:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ritesh Kumar]]>
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						<![CDATA[Aditi Tandon]]>
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							<![CDATA[On World Wetlands Day this year on February 2, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India, released the National Decadal Wetlands Change Atlas (2022 Atlas). Published by the Space Application Center (SAC), the 2022 Atlas provides data on wetland number and extent in 2017-18 and an assessment of change in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On World Wetlands Day this year on February 2, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India, released the National Decadal Wetlands Change Atlas (2022 Atlas). Published by the Space Application Center (SAC), the 2022 Atlas provides data on wetland number and extent in 2017-18 and an assessment of change in data since 2006-7 which was recorded in the National Wetlands Atlas 2011. In a marked improvement from the previous iteration, the 2022 Atlas also presents basin-wise and biogeographic zone-wise information on wetlands distribution and extent. Much ground has been covered since the time wetlands inventories were prepared using questionnaire surveys, first initiated in the eighties, leading to the Directory of Wetlands published by MoEFCC in 1989. In 1998, the first satellite-data-based national wetlands inventory using remote sensing images of 1992-93 was published, pegging the extent of wetlands in India at 7.58 million hectares. The 2022 Atlas uses IRS Resourcesat-2/2A LISS III satellite data to map wetlands. Natural wetlands are declining, human-made wetlands are increasing The 2022 Atlas concludes that the number and extent of wetlands having areas equal to or greater than 2.25 hectares (ha) have increased during the 2006/7-2017/18 period. The Atlas maps 231,195 wetlands (having an area equal to or greater than 2.25 ha) spanning 15.98 million hectares (4.86 percent of the country’s geographical area). In the 2006/7, 212,385 wetlands (&gt;=2.25 ha) spanning 15.34 million ha were reported. Thus, the assessment concludes that in a decade, the number of wetlands has increased by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2022/07/commentary-latest-wetland-mapping-data-underscores-the-need-to-step-up-conservation-action/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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