Publications

		Johnson J.A., Prabakaran N., Sivakumar K., Chakraborty O., Gole S., Pathan S., Ghanekar C., Rajpurkar S., Hatkar P., Seal S., Patel S., Iyer S., Prajapati S., Bose S., Tripura V., Christian, G., Joshi, R., Aggarwal, A., Dhiman G. and Negi, S. (2023). Annual Progress Report VI (2021-23), CAMPA-Recovery of dugongs and their habitats in India: An integrated participatory approach, Wildlife Institute of India, (Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change), Dehradun, pp. 234.

		Seagrass and Seaweed Habitats in Gulf of Mannar and South Palk Bay Region : Sohom Seal, Sweta Iyer, Chinmaya Ghaneker, Nehru Prabakaran and J.A. Johnson.2023. Seagrass and Seaweed habitats in Gulf of Mannar and south Palk Bay region. Final Technical Report, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. 17p.

Project Paper		Seal, S., Bayyana, S., Pande, A. et al. Spatial prioritization of dugong habitats in India can contribute towards achieving the 30 × 30 global biodiversity target. Sci Rep 14, 13984 (2024). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-64760-8

Article		Latitudinal variation in seagrass communities with special emphasis on post-tsunami status in the AndamanandNicobararchipelago, India Swapnali Gole 1 , NehruPrabakaran 1 SivakumarKuppusamy 1¤b , SumitPrajapati , Jeyaraj Antony Johnson \| pdf \|

Article		Spatial diversity and habitat characteristics of seagrass meadows with management recommendations in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India \| pdf \|

Project Paper		Review of stranding records of megaherbivore the Dugong (Dugong dugon, müller, 1776) in the Gulf of Kutch, India- an implication to the conservation of marine mammals in Gujarat \| pdf \|

Project Paper		India's first Dugong Conservation Reserve notified in Palk Bay, Tamil Nadu bringing hope for extintion-prone Dugongs.

		Annual report of Recovery of Dugongs and their habitats in India-an integrated participatory approach (2018-2019)

Article		Herd Size Dynamics and Observations on the Natural History of Dugongs (Dugong dugon) in the Andaman Islands, India : Swapnali Gole, Sumit Prajapati, Nehru Prabakaran, Jeyaraj Antony Johnson, and Kuppusamy Sivakumar

		Flowering and fruiting of Tape Seagrass Enhalus acoroides (L.f.) Royle from the Andaman Islands: observations from inflorescence buds to dehiscent fruits : Swapnali Gole; Sivakumar Kuppusamy;Himansu Das;Jeyaraj Antony Johnson

Research Paper		Influence of seasonality and edge effect on seagrass-associated macrobenthic communities: A case study from the Andaman Islands, India : Gole, S., Prabakaran, N., Das, H., Kuppusamy, S., & Johnson, J. A. (2024). Influence of seasonality and edge effect on seagrass-associated macrobenthic communities: A case study from the Andaman Islands, India. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 79, 103812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103812

Research Paper		Understanding dietary differences in Indian dugongs through opportunistic gut sampling of stranded individuals : Sumit Prajapati, Chinmaya Ghanekar, Sameeha Pathan, Rukmini Shekar, K. Madhu Magesh, Swapnali Gole, Srabani Bose, Sweta Iyer, Anant Pande,Kuppusamy Sivakumar and Jeyaraj Antony Johnson

		CAMPA-Recovery of dugong and their habitats in India: an integrated participatory approach (2022).A manual on marine mammal stranding response, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun,Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. : Sivakumar, K., Rajpurkar, S., Tripura, V., Dixit, D., Pande, A., Prabakaran, N., Johnson, J.A. (2022). A Manual on Marine Mammal Stranding Response. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India.
Research Paper		Scars of hope and forewarn of a bleak future: post-mortem findings of dugongs (Dugong dugon) belonging to a relict population in the Gulf of Kachchh, India : Sameeha Pathan, Anant Pande, Kuppusamy Sivakumar and J.A. Johnson

Newsletter		First time celebration of ‘Dugong Day’ in India: a social media campaign to highlight dugong conservation issues in India amidst COVID-19 pandemic

Newsletter		Role and importance of training and capacity building of stakeholders for saving dugongs in India

Newsletter		An update on the "Recovery of Dugongs and their Habitats in India: an Integrated Participatory Approach" programme Sirenews

Research Paper		Role of protected area in reducing marine and plastic litter: A case study from India's first Marine Protected Area and comparison with Non-Protected Areas : Anju Baroth, Sonalika Mamgain, Kuppusamy Sivakumar, Prachi Sachchidan and Hatkar, Sameeha Pathan

Research Paper		Opportunistic gut sampling indicates differential diet and plastic ingestion risk in Indian dugongs : Sumit Prajapati, Chinmaya Ghanekar, Sameeha Pathan, Rukmini Shekar, K. Madhu Magesh, Swapnali Gole, Srabani Bose, Sweta Iyer, Anant Pande, Jeyaraj Antony Johnson, Kuppusamy Sivakumar
		New distribution record of globally threatened Ocean Turf Grass Halophila beccarii Ascherson, 1871 from the North Andaman Islands highlights the importance of seagrass exploratory surveys Swapnali Gole, Prasad Gaidhani, Srabani Bose, Anant Pande, Jeyaraj Antony Johnson & Kuppusamy Sivakumar
Research Paper		Mitochondrial phylogeography reveals high diversity and unique divergent lineage in Indian Dugongs (Dugong dugon) : Yellapu Srinivas, Anant Pande, Swapnali Gole, P.V.R. Prem Jothi, K. Madhu Magesh, Sameeha Pathan, Sohini Dudhat, Rukmini Shekar, Devanshi Kukadia, Jeyaraj Antony Johnson, Samrat Mondol, Kuppusamy Sivakumar Download (458 kb)

Research Paper		'Spatio-temporal analysis identifies hotspots of marine mammal strandings along the Indian coastline: implications for developing a National Marine Mammal Stranding Response and Management policy' : Sohini Dudhat, Anant Pande, Aditi Nair, Indranil Mondal, Kuppusamy Sivakumar Download (3.1 mb)

		Sivakumar K., Johnson J.A., Pande A., Gole S., Dudhat S., Shekar S., Pathan S., Ghanekar C., Magesh M.K, Rajpurkar S., Seal S., Bayyana S., Patel S., Prajapati S., Saini H., Hatkar P., Tripura V., Bose S., Christian G., Annual Progress Report V (2020-21), CAMPA-Recovery of dugongs and their habitats in India: An integrated participatory approach, Wildlife Institute of India, (Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change), Dehradun. Download (24.12 mb)

Newsletter		Dugong Scholarship Program’ in India: a positive incentivization of wildlife conservation values in fisher communities published in Sirenews IUCN newsletter in 2019 Download (734.12 kb)

		Recovery of Dugongs and their Habitats in India : An Integrated Participatory Approach - Annual Progress Report - II 2017-18 (5.22 mb)
		Species Recovery Programme : Annual Progress Report 2016-17 (24.12 mb)
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		Download Sea Grass Field Guide (74.23 mb) "Please fill this Seagrass Field Guide User Info form to receive a high resolution copy after the field guide is officially released"
		Download Annual Progress Report IV (25.73 mb)
		Download Marine Mammal Conservation in India : Status, challenges and opportunities (1.89 mb)

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