Funders
The website has been created as an outcome of a project titled "Geo-Spatial Mapping of 28 years of media reporting on livelihoods and wildlife conservation in India" supported financially by DST, GoI through the GISE Hub at IIT Bombay.
The project has been implemented by the Environment and Ecology Research Group (EERG) at the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (C-TARA), IIT Bombay.
Project Partners
DST, GoI and GISE Hub, IIT Bombay (Financial Support)
Web: https://sites.google.com/iitb.ac.in/gise-hub/homeThe Duleep Matthai Nature Conservation Trust
Web: https://nfcoalition.in/partners/matthai-trust/Foundation for Ecological Security
Web: https://fes.org.inKalpavriksh Environmental Action Group
Web: https://kalpavriksh.orgPeople
Pankaj Sekhsaria
Principal Investigator, Co-ordinator, the Environment and Ecology Research Group (EERG) And Associate Professor, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (C-TARA). IIT Bombay
Email: pankaj.sekhsaria@iitb.ac.in
Tarun Verma
Project Research Assistant
Email: itarunkverma@gmail.com
Srishti Saxena
Project Research Associate
Email: s.srishti@hotmail.com
Reshma Jathar
Project Research Associate
Email: reshma.jathar@gmail.com
Mitesh Tandel
Consultant, Website Development
Email: mits.tandel@gmail.com
Megha Gupta
Consultant, Data Scientist and Analyst
Email: contactmegha@gmail.com
About the PA Update
The Protected Area Update started publication in 1994 and fulfils an important need of news and information related to protected areas from across India. The newsletter is published six times a year and mailed to nearly 2,000 people. It also goes out in an electronic form to 4,000 individuals via an emailing group.
It also now on Facebook: https//tinyurl.com/5umsb74j
The Maharashtra Protected Area Update (Maharashtra Sanrakshit Kshetra Vartapatra) a sister publication in Marathi focusing on news on Maharashtra was initiated in 2020 and goes out electronically and in print to nearly 1000 subscribers.
Access the original issues: https://kalpavriksh.org/documentation-outreach/newsletters/
Publications based on PA Update
Books
The State of Wildlife in North-East India 1996-2011: A compilation of news from the Protected Area Update.
Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria
Published in 2013 by the Foundation for Ecological Security; 295 pp and 100 line drawings.
Price: Rs. 300
The State of Wildlife and Protected Areas in Maharashtra: News and information from the Protected Area Update 1996-2015.
Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria
Published in 2019 by The Duleep Matthai Nature Conservation Trust, Kalpavriksh and Rainfed Books; xii + 235 pp and 100 line drawings.
ISBN: 978-8-19232-693-1
Price: Rs. 400
Conservation Kaleidoscope: People, Protected Areas and Wildlife in Contemporary India.
Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria
Published in 2021 by Kalpavriksh, Duleep Matthai Nature Conservation Trust and Authors Upfront; 432pp.
ISBN: 978-9-38728-070-0
Price: Rs. 650
Peer Reviewed Papers
Narayan, T. and Sekhsaria P. 2019. Media reporting on protected areas in Maharashtra, India: A
thematic analysis. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(2);
https://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/4461
Contact Us
For subscribing to soft/hard copies of English and Marathi Protected Area Update newsletters, for ordering copies of the books and/or for further information pls write to
Pankaj Sekhsaria: psekhsaria@gmail.com or
Reshma Jathar: reshma.jathar@gmail.com
For feedback and suggestions for the PA Update Database please write to
Pankaj Sekhsaria: psekhsaria@gmail.com or
Reshma Jathar: reshma.jathar@gmail.com