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Under cover of #lockdown, the MoEF&CC cleared multiple destructive projects in biodiversity hotspots in a fraction of the time. Nandini Velho points out that it's not just #DibangValley we need to be worried about. #clearances thehindu.com/sci-tech/energ…

Destroy forests. Plant new trees and allude to "age old traditions". Repeat endlessly. Good plan.

When regulatory processes meant to safeguard and conserve our environment themselves aid—rather than avert—its destruction, there is a fundamental problem that needs fixing. prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 and I write about our experience in The Wire The Wire Science. science.thewire.in/environment/ba…

Standing up for anti-racism movements around the world is great, but I wish my fellow citizens confronted discrimination out here too. vice.com/en_in/article/…

The parallel cinema movement in India of the late 1970s & 80s portrayed the people's perspective. Unfortunately, this enterprise nearly disappeared by the 90s, perhaps due to liberalisation. Today cinema that can do that job, if it wishes to, that is bit.ly/3dmcQ5d

So important in today's age of instant media. Unfortunately, today "get it right" is often trumped (pun intended) by "get it first"

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Denotify protected areas and put them up for "sustainable mining"! India's conservation story in 10 words.

Contestations and conflicts need to be anticipated and dealt with rather than just reacting to them. Important points brought up in this discussion.

Brilliantly researched article by Aravindhan is a must read for those who want to understand why calls by the Global North to move towards plant-based diets are not just based on flawed data but also ignorance of food security in the Global South. theindiaforum.in/article/meat-v…

Ukraine has been known as Europe’s breadbasket for centuries. Now that Russia has invaded the country, food insecurity could be exacerbated in the many developing countries that depend on Ukraine for their sustenance, writes Alex Smith. buff.ly/3t4cc6y

When in Bengaluru, please join! Workshop: Reimagining #Conservation Futures 4 October 2023 To register please fill this form: forms.gle/Mo3NnRyuFSSTqo… For questions please write to: [email protected] Ananda Siddhartha Robert Fletcher Convivial Conservation Shelby Matevich @SDC_WUR

Are you working on #connectivity and conservation? Do consider submitting an abstract for a panel at #POLLEN24 on the Political Ecology of Connectivity and Conservation politicalecologynetwork.org/2023/11/09/pol… POLLEN sayan banerjee

Another CfP from my side for #POLLEN2024 Dodoma, TZ site. On how political ecologists could be change agents in local/global wildlife conservation practice. Details👇🏻. Abstracts by December 1. Bring forward your stories of change, you political ecologists😀POLLEN.

📢 PhD vacancy alert! 📢 At @SDC_WUR, we have several exciting PhD vacancies coming up in the next week(s), including one on: Peri-urban land and water commons in the Global North and South Supervised by Sumit Vij & Jeroen Warner POLLEN Wageningen U&R wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd…

Conservation sees itself as a crisis discipline. An unquestioning allegiance and support to ongoing solutions often seems more urgent than a critical framing and understanding of problems. Yet, such a critical view is vital for a thoughtful and creative practise of conservation.

"Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own..." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Faculty #hiring at Ashoka University. Please help spread the word. We’re looking for scholars with an exciting research profile in the #SocialSciences. #AcademicTwitter

🧵 The 2023 Forest Survey of India (भारतीय वन सर्वेक्षण) (FSI) registers a marginal increase in #India’s #forest cover by 156 km², a deceitful inflation that hides an inconvenient truth of colossal loss of natural #forests as an analysis by #PrakritiSrivastava @krithika_1193 & myself shows. Besides, the

New #Openaccess paper Capturing Land for Elephant Corridors in South India through the Conservation-Agrarian Squeeze (rb.gy/vipa5y) which argues that factors in conservation and agrarian landscapes squeeze farmers, enabling land acquisition for conservation.