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Tiasa Adhya
Tiasa Adhya (born ) is an Indian Conservation biology, conservationist and wildlife biologist. She is known for her work protecting fishing cats and has received the Nari Shakti Puraskar. Her research also contributed to fishing cats being listed as a vulnerable species on the 2016 IUCN Red List. Early life and education Adhya was drawn to animals at a young age. Her interest in wildlife conservation helped her to pass school and get her bachelor's degree. She studied zoology at the University of Calcutta. She was introduced to work with fishing cats by Shomita Mukherjee, who at the time was the only specialist on small cats in India. Other people she worked with in her early career included Jim Sanderson (conservationist) and Ajith Kumar (biologist), Ajith Kumar. In 2022, she graduated from The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology with a master's degree in ecology and conservation. Career and research Her research focuses on fishing cat populations, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservation Biology
Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an interdisciplinary subject drawing on natural and social sciences, and the practice of natural resource management. The nature conservation, conservation ethic is based on the findings of conservation biology. Origins The term conservation biology and its conception as a new field originated with the convening of "The First International Conference on Research in Conservation Biology" held at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California, in 1978 led by American biologists Bruce A. Wilcox and Michael E. Soulé with a group of leading university and zoo researchers and conservationists including Kurt Benirschke, Sir Otto Frankel, Thomas Lovejoy, and Jared Diamond. The meeting was prompted due to concern over tropical de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
