Category Archives: India

Wildlife Conservation Game Theory

Posted on 04/08/2015 by Marjan

This post considers how board games can be used as enjoyable, interactive educational tools to teach key themes in topics such as wildlife conservation. Board games, war games and online games have been around for some time. While many of … Continue reading →

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Manas Park and Tiger Reserve

Posted on 12/11/2013 by Marjan

Conflicted Planet: Manas National Park and Tiger Reserve, Assam This is a unique chance to hear about one of the most fascinating but relatively unknown parks in the world, the ManasNational Park and Tiger Reserve in India’s north east. The … Continue reading →

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Manas Project

Posted on 07/12/2012 by Marjan

As super-power rivalry between India and China widens so the region of Assam in India’s north-east ‘shoulder’ becomes ever more significant given its proximity to both China and Myanmar and its borders with Bhutan and Bangla Desh. Internally Assam has … Continue reading →

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Tigers and terrorism: part 3

Posted on 14/09/2012 by Marjan

(This is the third and last ‘post’ by Sonali Ghosh, a PhD student looking at the use of geospatial technology for mapping tiger habitat in the Indo-Bhutan Manas Tiger Conservation Landscape). The encroachment issue has also been admitted time and … Continue reading →

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Terrorism and Tigers: part 2.

Posted on 13/09/2012 by Marjan

The wild denizens would have continued their migration all across the Terai floodplain that stretches all along the foothills of the Himalayas in India, Nepal and Bhutan. The danger of encountering wild animals along with the inhospitable terrain with numerous … Continue reading →

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Terrorism and Tigers- can they co-exist? Part 1

Posted on 12/09/2012 by Marjan

(This is the first part of three sequential ‘posts’ by Sonali Ghosh, a PhD student looking at the use of geospatial technology for mapping tiger habitat in the Indo-Bhutan Manas Tiger Conservation Landscape) It was a hot and sultry day … Continue reading →

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Bodoland foreboding

Posted on 26/08/2012 by Marjan

Last month (July) at the Royal Geographical Society’s International Conference in Edinburgh, Indian PhD student, Sonali Ghosh, delivered a short talk titled: ‘armed conflict and its impact on wildlife habitat – a case study from Manas Tiger Reserve and World … Continue reading →

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