BANGALORE: Meet Chandrakanth Radican, a young conservator from Jejuri in Pune district, who spreads awareness among school children about community conservation of birds in both urban and rural areas.
He believes that any conservation activity won't attain its real goals if local communities are not involved. "Children are the best medium to bring about positive change. I train school kids about biodiversity in their local areas and student teams are formed on topics of their interest. While some want to create awareness about local birds, others are interested in wild flowers," he added.
Aditya Doiphode and his team of five schoolmates like bird conservation. "The world of birds is very interesting. We've decided to get more friends on board," he said.
Chandrakanth is just one of the young conservators from across the world now in Bangalore for a four-day Student Conference on Conservation Science ( SCCS) which began at the Indian Institute of Science on Wednesday. Many will make poster presentations and participate in workshops. The team involves graduates, post-graduates and research fellows too.
DK Hewavithana, MR Wikesinghe and CD Dangalle from the department of zoology at the University of Colombo are studying butterflies. They looked at how butterflies use mammalian dung in the Wasgomuwa National Park, Sri Lanka, as an alternative source of nutrients and water. "This suggests how the availability of dung may also affect the survival of butterflies," they said.
For Devathi Parashuram, who has completed her Master's from the University of East Anglia, is interested in bird habitats. "Most are under threat due to urbanisation. I'm making a poster presentation on population trends of birds," she added.
D Pilot Dovih and Uma Ramakrishnan are concerned about indiscriminate hunting and habitat loss in the biological parks of Nagaland. In their presentation, they said that hunting is derived from traditional preference from wild meat and a ban on hunting and logging is not effectively implemented.
Young minds meet
* Over 300 conservation researchers participating in the fourth SCCS
* They're from 14 countries, including Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Mexico, Nepal, Portugal, Sri Lanka and the US
* Topics of discussion include citizen science, man-animal conflict in Asia and Africa, lemurs from Madagascar, tiger conservation, the challenges of understanding elephant family units in India.
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