Pooja Choksi

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Pooja Choksi

Pooja Choksi

@Poojation

Post-doc @UMNews | Co-founder @project_dhvani | @InsideNatGeo explorer 2019 | Restoration science | Bioacoustics | Social-ecological systems

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Project Dhvani
Project Dhvani@project_dhvani·
This study marks a timely contribution to the growing body of literature on the efficacy of acoustic indices as tools to measure biodiversity, especially in tropical dry forests. Check out the full article!
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Project Dhvani
Project Dhvani@project_dhvani·
And therefore, in the current UN Decade on Restoration, we call attention to moving beyond the generally adopted practice of estimating the presence or absence of species and investigating species-level responses, such as behavioural changes, to ecological restoration.
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Dark 'n' Light
Dark 'n' Light@darknlightzine·
We also love this essay by Pooja Choksi on how she was cured of her tree blindness while in the field. You can read 'Missing the Trees for the Forest' here: darknlight.com/projects/perso…
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Dark 'n' Light
Dark 'n' Light@darknlightzine·
Wonderful to see Pooja Choksi's work using bioacoustics to quantify ecological restoration in this story! @susieqllap interviewed @Poojation in Season 1 of The Subverse about her work. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2RJqBh…
Mongabay India@MongabayIndia

While bioacoustics captures baseline data to keep track of longterm changes in forests, the technique needs to be complemented with physical ground truthing surveys to draw effective conclusions on restoration outcomes. ✒️ @sahanaghosh8. @Poojation india.mongabay.com/2023/08/the-so…

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Mongabay India@MongabayIndia·
In the buffer area of Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh, researchers ‘listened’ to forests in areas where Lantana Camara, the invasive species, was removed. What did they find out? ✒️ @sahanaghosh8 , 🎥 @kcmouli25 @Poojation youtu.be/WYywEL6pzRw
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Aruna Chandrasekhar
Aruna Chandrasekhar@aruna_sekhar·
‘Everyone is aghast.’ India’s move to weaken forest protections outrages conservationists, who call the amendments ‘ecocide’. science.org/content/articl…
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Jacinta Kerketta
Jacinta Kerketta@JacintaKerkett2·
More than 100 former civil servants, members of the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), have written to all members of parliament in India expressing their concern with the Forest Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023. m.thewire.in/article/govern…
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Rishika Pardikar
Rishika Pardikar@rishpardikar·
Bill to amend Forest Conservation Act that received ~1,200 representations, incl **objections** from conservationists, tribal groups, environmental lawyers will go Parliament unchanged. Zero reason to think the parliamentary committee set-up wasn't a sham thehindu.com/sci-tech/energ…
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Pooja Choksi@Poojation·
So much of what I understand about ecology is thanks to spending time in this beautiful corner of central India. Here's my journey to viewing the trees for what they are, and not just as data.
Dark 'n' Light@darknlightzine

Ecologist Dr Pooja Choksi @Poojation writes for Dark 'n Light about how she cured her tree blindness when she was in the field. Armed with Pradip Krishen’s ‘The Jungle Trees of Central India’ as her field guide, she stopped looking at trees as just 'data'.

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Aruna Chandrasekhar
Aruna Chandrasekhar@aruna_sekhar·
Of all the different coal cases that @lifeindia2016 works on, only *one* coal interest group is explicitly named by the Indian government in its investigations attached to the FIR as "impacting public interest". Not NTPC, or Coal India, but *gasp*, Adani.
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Aruna Chandrasekhar@aruna_sekhar

Authorities knew exactly what LIFE does – litigate for communities, ecosystems and people concerned about environmental and climate impacts of development projects – when granting their FCRA. Why the surprise, FIRs and CBI raid now?

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Rishika Pardikar
Rishika Pardikar@rishpardikar·
"we have been fighting for fisherfolk, farmers, forest communities. Almost 90% of our litigants are those whose livelihood/ culture depends on environment in that area." Read this old interview with Ritwick Dutta of @lifeindia2016 who now faces a CBI case article-14.com/post/-if-triba…
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निखिल घाणेकर (Nikhil Ghanekar)
निखिल घाणेकर (Nikhil Ghanekar)@NGhanekar·
The narrative of evil foreign institutions working overtime to bring down everything Indian has become so entrenched in public consciousness that anyone who stands up to govt's own rule-breaking (esp in the environment field) carries a target on their back.
Bar and Bench@barandbench

CBI files an FIR against lawyer Ritwick Dutta for FCRA violations in filing cases against coal projects. Ritwick is the founder of Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) @lifeindia2016 @CBIHeadquarters

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