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The Thing About Wildlife

The Thing About Wildlife offers long and insightful conversations with Indians working closest to nature: researchers, educators and conservationists.

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01:08:01

#43 The Thing About Birds and Chai

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2023/06/18

Welcome to a new series within this podcast: The Thing About Pride. These are episodes showcasing the work and lived experiences of queer or LGBTQIA+ identifying persons in the fields of ecology and conservation.First up, on today's episode, I speak with Nisha Bhakat about her fantastic work studying birds in tea estates of Bengal, her journey in the intersection of being a wildlifer and a queer, female-identifying individual, and about some larger philosophical questions about what fieldwork

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01:12:29

#42 The Thing About Regenerative Farming

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2023/06/04

Malika Virdi is an urban citizen turned farmer who co-founded Maati Sanghthan, a women’s collective, in Sarmoli, Munsiyari. This collective actively works to fight against the growing violence against women, and focuses on improving community wellbeing through an environmental lens. Siddharth Negi is one of the founders of the Uttaranchal Youth and Rural Development Centre, or UYRDC, where he works to establish an ecological, social and economic environment wherein the local communities can grow to

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01:41:08

#41 The Thing About Glacial Melts

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2023/05/20

This is the first of two very special bonus episodes produced in collaboration with the Sydney Environmental Institute and the India and Bharat Together NGO. Together, we explore the on-ground consequences of climate change in the western himalayas, and what they mean for the future of people and habitats of these regions.In our first episode - The Thing About Glacial Melts, through an introspective conversation with two young individuals rooted in Ladakh, we will try to understand how local

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01:13:33

#40 The Thing About Fisheries and Gifting Chickens

The Thing About Wildlife ·

2023/04/01

Dr Sahir Advani is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Maine. While he works at a larger, global scale now, we dipped into his experiences from the pre-pandemic era for this episode, from when he conducted his doctoral work across the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Sahir is interested in finding sustainable solutions to coral reef associated fisheries and the export markets driving them. He has profiled the fisheries of these Islands, with a focus on the grouper fisheries. His

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00:46:26

#39 The Thing About Galloping Dolphins

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2023/03/26

Today's guest is Mahi Mankeshwar - a cetacean biologist who has one of the most natural affinities to the marine space that I've ever encountered. She was one of the first people to systematically document the diversity of marine mammals around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with a focus on cetaceans - that is, dolphins and whales. Her work across the islands has led to some of the most fantastic sightings and records of these incredible animals for whom Indian waters are home. And from

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00:52:19

#38 The Thing About Mamuli Baatein (Hindi)

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2023/03/19

I am joined by my guest co-host, Tanmay Wagh, who you all met last Season as part of episode 21: The Thing About Marine Adventures! Together, we speak to two fabulous members of the Andaman and Nicobar Environment Team at the Dakshin Foundation - James Tirkey and Babu Kutty.James is the Base Coordinator and a Field Assistant at ANET. He has extensive research experience - having assisted on several forestry projects. He enjoys work within the realms of botany, herpetology, birding, mangroves systems

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00:41:36

#37 The Thing About Seagrasses and Dugongs

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2023/03/04

Dr Elrika D'Souza is the Programme Manager of Oceans and Coasts at the Nature Conservation Foundation. Her research interests lie in exploring plant-animal interactions in seagrass ecosystems. Elrika has documented historical declines in dugong populations in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, and has worked towards identifying the reasons that led to that very decline. Presently, her research in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago focusses on understanding the biotic and abiotic processes that

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01:02:49

#36 The Thing About Monkeys on the Beach

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2023/02/26

Today, I speak with the dedicated and observant, Dr Arijit Pal, a postdoctoral fellow at the national institute of advanced studies in bangalore. For the past decade, Arijit has been closely studying the Nicobar long-tailed macaques of Great Nicobar Island. He was one of the first primatologists to venture into this space in order to study a species we knew next to nothing about. Today he is continuing to build upon his years of work studying tool use and social dynamics in this uniquely islandic

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01:05:37

#35 The Thing About Ethnographies and Mayabandar

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2023/02/12

Shiba Desor is a social scientist who worked with the Karen community in the middle Andamans to set up the Andaman Karen Crafts initiative, a cooperative to promote cultural continuity and environmental conservation through weaving, artisanal crafts, tree nurseries and a local-cuisine restaurant. Shiba has previously worked with forest rights policy and livelihoods as well, and now continues to look inwards about how best to help and aid local communities sustain themselves and, perhaps,

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01:16:46

#34 The Thing About Great Nicobar In Peril

The Thing About Wildlife ·

2023/02/05

We're back today with another in our Andaman and Nicobar series, with a conversation featuring Professor Pankaj Sekhsaria. His main areas of research lie at the intersection of environment, science and society and he is incredibly driven when it comes to issues of the environment and wildlife conservation across the country. He is also an incredible and prolific writer and storyteller, and you can find his words tucked away in mainstream journalism, academic articles, novels, essays and more

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01:13:55

#33 The Thing About Culture and Nature

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2023/01/28

Madhuri Ramesh is a faculty member at the School of Development at Azim Premji University. Madhuri has worked in deserts, rainforests, coasts and islands, she’s a herpetologist who turned to political ecology for her PhD and later work. Her research in the Andaman Islands focuses on nature-society relations, and the consequences of these negotiations for conservation and sustainability.

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01:36:11

#32 The Thing About Restoration and Development

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2023/01/22

Manish is a phenomenal storyteller, who uses his lived experiences to talk about the people and ecology of the islands with extreme clarity. Our recording with Manish ran into hours, and so I'll be bringing his voice to you in two parts. In the first epsiode featuring Manish, The Thing About Discovering The Islands, he talks to us about how he stumbled into the Andamans nearly three decades ago, what it was about the place that got him involved in several projects there, how he came to know and live

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01:12:36

#31 The Thing About Discovering the Islands

The Thing About Wildlife ·

2023/01/15

In the first episode of our Andaman and Nicobar series, storyteller-supreme, Manish Chandi speaks to Ishika and Akshay about his early years in the islands through riveting anecdotes. Manish Chandi, an affiliate with the Andaman and Nicobar Environment Team and Nature Conservation Foundation. In the last 25 years, Manish has worked on a wide range of projects in the region: herpetological surveys, forest restoration and anthropology - for his PhD, he lived with the Nicobarese people studying

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00:09:04

#30 The Thing About The Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Thing About Wildlife ·

2023/01/07

Happy 2023, listeners! This year, The Thing About Wildlife is kick-starting with a 10-part series on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Stay tuned for more!

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00:56:52

#29 The Thing About The Living Museum

The Thing About Wildlife ·

2022/10/16

Order The Living Museum today! To know more about the book, head on over to our website. This production and distribution of this book was made possible with the support of Bengaluru Sustainability Forum, Nagarathna Memorial Grant and published by the Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning. Artwork for the book and the episode thumbnail by Sunaina Coleho.

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01:14:08

#28 The Thing About Reflections #2

The Thing About Wildlife ·

2022/07/04

After a little break, TTAW is back with The Thing About Reflections #2, where I'm joined by guest co-host Dr Krishna Anujan to look back upon Season 2. We spoke about the range of guests and topics we had on the podcast and dissected this season's highlights and shortcomings. We also fantasized about upcoming episodes and seasons. Let us know your thoughts and feedback too! Write to us at thethingaboutwildlife@gmail.com

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00:34:20

#27 The Thing About Building Camera Traps

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2022/05/08

Tejaswini Nagesh is a product designer who works with the World Wide Fund for Nature - India in Tezpur. Her current work focuses on understanding the factors that contribute to elephant collisions with trains in Assam, so as to minimize them as far as possible. She is on a mission to explore how she can bring her unique skill set to this field of wildlife conservation through creative collaborations and her focused problem-solving mindset. After doing her Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and her

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01:06:15

#26 The Thing About Art for Conservation

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2022/05/02

Labonie Roy is a multi-media illustrator and educational content designer with a passion for nature-based learning. She has worked alongside various environment and education initiatives to bring both children and adults closer to nature through creative perspectives like upcycling, art and theatre. You can see a lot of her work featured in the educational content at Nature Classrooms, an initiative by the Nature Conservation Foundation. She's now a freelancer, and her interests lie in issues

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00:39:36

#25 The Thing About Himalayan Ungulates

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2022/04/23

Munib Khanyari has just emerged from having completed his fascinating doctoral work in the Himalayas. He did his PhD from the University of Bristol/University of Oxford, and has been associated with the High Altitudes Program at the Nature Conservation Foundation as a Research Scholar for quite some time. His work focuses on the ungulates of the mountains – how they survive, how they interact with livestock, and even their health in the up-high cold deserts. He is also a conservation

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00:28:33

#24 The Thing About Tea and Elephants

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2022/04/17

Parvathi K Prasad is a Research Affiliate at Conservation Initiatives and PhD student at Deakin University. She began her journey into this field through a human-animal interactions project in the Western Ghats with the Centre for Wildlife Studies, following which, she found her way to the dynamic ecosystems of Assam in Northeast India. After being introduced to Kaziranga and its megaherbivores, she chose to stay put and study its elephants for her PhD. Twitter: @ParvathiKPrasad| Instagram:

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