Geography Connections: “The Geography of Wildlife Conservation”
The Indian Institute of Geographical Studies
A project of The Dharani Trust (Bengaluru) & Dharani USA (Chicago)
In partnership with
Army Public School, Bengaluru
Presents
The Geography Connections lecture series
“The Geography of Wildlife Conservation”
An interactive talk
By
Tarsh Thekaekara
Geographer, Conservationist
The Shola Trust and the British Open University
Abstract
While nature conservation has traditionally been the forte of biology, there is a move to make the field more interdisciplinary. Geography is perhaps the subject best suited to form the backbone of conservation. Landscapes are central to conservation — how animals, plants and people are spread out across space them and how they interact with each other. Over the course of the talk, I will go over the work that we do at The Shola Trust (thesholatrust.org), and despite not planning it to be this way, geography is perhaps central to most of what we do — from understanding elephants and how they move around, to finding out how tolerant people are to wildlife, to camera trapping in tea estates, to getting a grip of invasive species.
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Date:
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Time:
4 pm — 5 pm
Venue:
AV Room 1, Army Public School,
K Kamaraj Road, Bengaluru
Intended audience:
Students from class 8 and above; teachers; anyone interested. So, bring your students, children, friends, and anyone else who may be interested
Tickets:
None! Free and open to the public
More information:
Dr Chandra Shekhar Balachandran geo@tiigs.org
Thanks to the Principal, Army Public School, Bengaluru for continued and enthusiastic partnership with activities of The Indian Institute of Geographical Studies.
A question and answer interaction follows the talk. Read Mr Thekaekara’s fascinating article: Elephants: More brains than brawn?
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