Speaker

Dr. Shankar Raman

Writer and Wildlife Scientist

T. R. Shankar Raman is a writer and wildlife scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, interested in the ecology and conservation of tropical forests and wildlife, especially in the Western Ghats.

He is based at the field research station in Valparai in the Anamalai Hills, and is the author of ‘The Wild Heart of India: Nature and Conservation in the City, the Country, and the Wild’.
And co-author, with Divya Mudappa, of ‘Pillars of Life: Magnificent Trees of the Western Ghats’.
He co-edited ‘At the Feet of Living Things : Twenty-Five Years of Wildlife Research and Conservation in India’ with Aparajita Datta and Rohan Arthur.

He blogs at View from Elephant Hills: http://www.shankarraman.in

Sessions

Day 1 - 6th October, Friday @ The Niligir Library

11:55 AM - 01:00 PM

Is Indian Conservation at a Crossroad?

As the earth feels the ever-increasing stress of human presence, forests and animal species seem under threat as never before. Extinction rates of flora and fauna are reaching irreplaceable levels. India and the Nilgiris are no exception to this trend. Eminent panelists Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan, Dr. Shankar Raman
and Suprabha Seshan will be in conversation with Rohini Nilekani on the challenges and pathways forward for the conservation movement in India and the Nilgiris.