Coimbatore, Dec. 16
In an attempt to promote urban biodiversity conservation, Coimbatore based Centre for Urban Biodiversity Conservation and Education (CUBE), has decided to fund two student projects under the CUBE Fellowship Programme. CUBE is a voluntary organisation formed from the ongoing conservation movement at Singanallur Lake in Coimbatore. This is the first time that the organisation has offered funding for research projects.
The projects, ‘Action plan for developing a participatory conservation programme in the urban stretches of River Tirur’ based in Kerala, and ‘Socio-Ecology of urban Mysore Grey Slender Loris in Bengaluru City’ based in Karnataka, will be funded upto Rs. 15000 each for a period of six months.
The project on Slender Loris is to be carried out by Varsha Bhaskaran, an M.Sc Environmental Science and Resource Management student from the TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi. The study on participatory river conservation would be done by Dhimna Raj, a student of MA Environmental Studies from the Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Malapuram in Kerala.
Both projects will involve the local community in conserving the natural habitat. The study on Loris focuses on conserving the fragmented habitat of the endemic Mysore Grey Slender Loris in small urban forest patches, wetlands, parks and institutional campuses. The river conservation project would involve conserving mangrove forests by understanding their ecosystem along the urban stretches of River Tirur. Local communities and self help groups would also be involved in nurturing and protecting the mangrove forests within a stretch of 48 kms.
The projects have been selected from nearly 30 entries from cities like Coimbatore, Madurai, Malappuram, Changanassery, Kasargod, Kottayam, Shivamogga, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Basti and Guwahati. The proposals were scrutinised for the feasibility to complete the study within the time frame, objectives and desired outcomes, after which the two were selected.
The organisers would like to fund at least two urban biodiversity restoration programmes per year, in future.
In an attempt to promote urban biodiversity conservation, Coimbatore based Centre for Urban Biodiversity Conservation and Education (CUBE), has decided to fund two student projects under the CUBE Fellowship Programme. CUBE is a voluntary organisation formed from the ongoing conservation movement at Singanallur Lake in Coimbatore. This is the first time that the organisation has offered funding for research projects.
The projects, ‘Action plan for developing a participatory conservation programme in the urban stretches of River Tirur’ based in Kerala, and ‘Socio-Ecology of urban Mysore Grey Slender Loris in Bengaluru City’ based in Karnataka, will be funded upto Rs. 15000 each for a period of six months.
The project on Slender Loris is to be carried out by Varsha Bhaskaran, an M.Sc Environmental Science and Resource Management student from the TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi. The study on participatory river conservation would be done by Dhimna Raj, a student of MA Environmental Studies from the Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Malapuram in Kerala.
Both projects will involve the local community in conserving the natural habitat. The study on Loris focuses on conserving the fragmented habitat of the endemic Mysore Grey Slender Loris in small urban forest patches, wetlands, parks and institutional campuses. The river conservation project would involve conserving mangrove forests by understanding their ecosystem along the urban stretches of River Tirur. Local communities and self help groups would also be involved in nurturing and protecting the mangrove forests within a stretch of 48 kms.
The projects have been selected from nearly 30 entries from cities like Coimbatore, Madurai, Malappuram, Changanassery, Kasargod, Kottayam, Shivamogga, Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Basti and Guwahati. The proposals were scrutinised for the feasibility to complete the study within the time frame, objectives and desired outcomes, after which the two were selected.
The organisers would like to fund at least two urban biodiversity restoration programmes per year, in future.