They Shoot Elephants, don't they?
Mr. Surendra Varma is working as a Research Officer at the Elephant Research and Conservation Centre (AERCC, a division of Asian Nature Conservation Foundation), based at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, South India. He is also a member of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group. He has extensive experience in carrying out elephant and other large mammal population, habitat and distribution studies and surveys in India, Myanmar and Vietnam. Varma has been actively involved in carrying out capacity building in elephant census methods, habitat mapping and survey techniques for numerous participants from India and other South-East Asian countries. He is also involved in developing conservation technology tools as well as a comprehensive study on the captive elephant
population, their welfare and management in India.
Here are few of the articles he has written and have been published in good journals and print media. I used to write about issues related to socioeconomic, human behavior, human relationships, ethics and stuff like that. But varma has inspired me to use this writing ability towards conservation of nature and education of forth coming generations. Go ahead and read the articles and make full use of the knowledge he has tried to share.....Happy reading!
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population, their welfare and management in India.
Here are few of the articles he has written and have been published in good journals and print media. I used to write about issues related to socioeconomic, human behavior, human relationships, ethics and stuff like that. But varma has inspired me to use this writing ability towards conservation of nature and education of forth coming generations. Go ahead and read the articles and make full use of the knowledge he has tried to share.....Happy reading!
Note to the reader: All articles posted here are posted only with prior permissions from the author.....
Poaching!
In this article the author talks about of the discovery of 18 dead elephants in one continuous stretch of the forest in the nilgiri biosphere reserve over a short period of three days. The article was published in sanctuary Asia in 1999