I am an ecologist with a keen interest in addressing conservation challenges through the integration of interdisciplinary approaches. For more than a decade, I have engaged in interdisciplinary research across the Terai Region and North-eastern States of India, leveraging my expertise in wildlife biology and geoinformatics. Broadly, my research focuses on population, quantitative, restoration, and landscape ecology. My interests lie in mainstreaming scientific and modelled explorations to advance conservation planning and implementation, particularly in newer ways of integrating technologies with local knowledge to safeguard biodiversity.
For my PhD, I studied the impact of urbanization on sparrows, and for my post-doctoral studies, I extensively worked on the elusive and endangered Hispid hare and its highly threatened grassland habitat across the entire Terai landscape. Before joining as a faculty at the Wildlife Institute of India, I worked at the UNESCO Category 2 Centre on World Natural Heritage Management and Training for the Asia and the Pacific Region, focusing on the monitoring, research and capacity building of Natural and Mixed World Heritage Sites in India. My current work focuses on the threatened grassland fauna of the Terai region, human-wildlife interactions (Asian Elephant as a model species), and biodiversity assessment at the landscape level.
I also have an interest in documenting various facets of the natural history of herpetofauna, with a specific focus on serpents.
Dr. Anukul Nath
Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248001, India.
anukul [at] wii [dot] gov [dot] in