Lessons from #birds: Social🐦have a higher risk of blood parasite infection than non-social🐦 🧵Read more on which host traits⬆️parasite infection risk in our new #openaccess article rdcu.be/b9oHD with V. V. Robin CK Vishnudas, Guha D UGA SREL #SocialDistancing matters

Wayanad in the Western Ghats region is another Uttarakhand in the making. In the last 3 years, there has been a 197% increase in landslides compared to previous 38 years, yet the 3rd longest tunnel project in the country has been approved. My piece: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/esz…

#ProcB Associate Editors Ullasa Kodandaramaiah and V. V. Robin from India tell us more about their research, backgrounds and why they joined the #ProcB editorial board in our latest blog ow.ly/tphl50FYrWs

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Is Kerala becoming more prone to landslides? #COP26 & Kerala | Podcast Ep 2 youtu.be/HTW2Iv5TEBc via YouTube #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

'Frequency of landslides rising in Kerala due to land-use patterns, climate change' onmanorama.com/news/kerala/20… #ClimateAction #climate #COP26

Really enjoyed being in Usk today to unveil this wonderful sculpture of Usk born naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace created by local artist Felicity Crawley. Thanks to Usk Civic Society and George Beccaloni for organising . For the Wallace story check out bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01…

New paper: Active #restoration fosters better recovery of tropical rainforest birds than natural regeneration in degraded forest fragments Priyanka Hari Haran T. R. Shankar Raman l @[email protected] Nature Conservation Foundation. Free-to-read for a limited time here 👉ow.ly/8bWX50GKcxi. 📸 Divya Mudappa

Kerala: PWD seeks MoEF nod for Wayanad mega tunnel toi.in/qHv-7Z/a24gk via The Times Of India Do we need to dig every mountains in the Country? #Wayanad #Geology #landslides #conservation

Kerala govt seeks green nod for a mega tunnel project in the Western Ghats that will destroy core forest areas. The Rs 2,080 crore project is passing close by Puthumala hills in Wayanad where a huge landslide occured. It aims to cut inter-state travel time by a mere half an hour.

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Kerala BirdAtlas.Asia’s largest bird atlas in terms of geographical extent ! A summary paper is out in Current Science.currentscience.ac.in/show.issue.php… #CitizenScience #birds #HumeEcology

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New publication alert! Our paper "Indigenous insights on human-wildlife coexistence in Southern India" is now published online in Conservation Biology Here is the link - doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1… SCB,Conservation Biology,Terre Satterfield,Milind Kandlikar,National Geographic, UBC IRES, Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology

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The State Expert Appraisal Commitee Report reveals that the proposed mega tunnel project in Wayanad coming up for saving just one hour drive from Kerala to Karnataka will aggravate man- animal conflict, as an elephant corridor will be destroyed for ever. onmanorama.com/news/kerala/20…

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