Nature Conservation Foundation

When a large and potentially dangerous animal like the leopard also turns out to be adaptable, ensuring the conservation of the species as well as the safety of people becomes particularly complex.

Seemingly unchanged for centuries, communities of the Trans-Himalaya have been witnesses to and slow influencers of changes in the high, cold desert ecosystems.

Snow leopards share their harsh landscapes with many local communities. As changes come inevitably, if slowly, to these areas, our conservation efforts try to lessen their impact on the species.

As shrinking natural habitats push people and wildlife into increasing contact with each other, such interactions and encounters bring both grim fallouts and happy surprises.

Their crucial ecological role as seed dispersers who help forests regenerate, as well as their cultural significance, makes hornbills a powerful lens through which to focus conversation efforts.

Ranges of tigers and other large mammals have seen significant change in recent decades. Understanding these changes and what drives them is an important conservation need.

Coral declines following an El Niño event in 1998, gave algae room to take over. A healthy community of grazers, such as these blue tang, have kept the algae in check and helped reefs recover.

Environmental changes caused by humans can affect not only animal behaviour but also transform animal societies. Our long-term work on bonnet macaques tracks these dynamics over generations.

Sarus cranes, and a host of other birds, inhabit some of the most crowded agricultural landscapes in south Asia. Our work tries to strengthen this association between humans, crops, and wildlife.

Coral reefs are sensitive indicators of ocean health, and making them an accurate lens to examine both planetary phenomena like climate change as well as shifts in the community's use of natural resources.