i BOARD OF ADVISORS j We are grateful to our Board of Advisors for their constant support: • A V Balasubramanian, Director, Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems • Ravi Chellam, Director, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment • Terence Done, Associate, Australian Institute of Marine Sciences • Ajith Kumar, <strong>Conservation</strong> Scientist, Wildlife <strong>Conservation</strong> Society • Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and Environment • Herbert HT Prins, Professor & Chair, Resource Ecology Group,Wageningen University • Mahesh Rangarajan, Social Historian i j 58 <strong>annual</strong> <strong>report</strong>
i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS j Individual Supporters and Friends D. G. Hedge, Arjun Sanadi, Ashwin Karumbaya, Gunashekar, Venky Muthiah, C. Vijaykumar, Samuel Udayakumar, Oliver Praveenkumar, Arun Kumar, Kaushik Subramani, Mahesh Fair, Murali Padikkal, Mahesh John and Soundarrajan, Subhashinee Chandran, Sreedharan Chandran, J. T. Kamdin, Robin D’Rozario & Bhavani Singh (Anamalai plantations) Pavithra Sankaran, Soumya Prasad, S. U. Saravanakumar, Mahesh Rangarajan, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Dilip Venugopal, Theodore Baskaran, Maya Ramaswamy, Atul Joshi and a host of volunteers Donors Karnum Shashidhar, T. R. Ramachandran, Kirti Kandade, Shobha Swaminathan, K. P. Sreedhar, Radha Krishna Charity Trust, Rauf Ali, Rama Krishnan, T. R. Rajagopalan, T. Neelakantan, Rajalakshmi, Shyamala, Iridis Advisory Government Ministry of Environment and Forests, India Department of Science and Technology, India State Forest Departments of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, Lakshadweep (administration), Pondicherry, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh Dr. C. K. Sreedharan, Dr. Sukh Dev, Mr. K. R. Varadarajan, Mr. V. Ganesan, Mr. A. Sivamani, Mr. G. Murthy, Mr. T. Panneerselvam (Tamil Nadu Forest Department); Dr. V. K. Melkani, Trust Director, Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Trust; Dr. S. I. Koya, Department of Science and Technology, Lakshadweep; Dr. Anmol Kumar, Mr. R. B. Lal, Dr. Rashid Hasan (all MoEF); Shri J. C. Kala, DG, Forests and Special Secretary to Ministry of Environment and Forests, India; Shri R. P. S. Katwal, IFS, Additional DG (Wildlife); Dr. C. M. Seth, Director SFRI, Jammu & Kashmir; Shri Jigmet Takpa, Regional Wildlife Warden, Ladakh Students V. R. Goswami, V. Sumati Colleagues in other institutions Agatti Coral Reef Monitoring Network (ACRMN); Peter Clyne, Associate Director of WCS-Asia Program; Dr. K. Ullas Karanth, WCS-India Program; Nandita Hazarika and Goutam Narayan of Ecosystems-India; Dr. Ravi Chellam of ATREE; Dr. Kashmira Kakati; Dr. Teresa Alcoverro; Dr. Nuria Marba; Dr. A. Christy Williams, WWF-Nepal; Dr. Kartik Shanker (CES); Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan; Mahendra Shreshta and John Seidensticker (Save the Tiger Fund); Suresh Puttaswamy (Namma Sangha); Sriram Nadathur; Anand Nadathur; Suri Venkatachalam; Sudhakar Mallya (all from Nadathur <strong>Conservation</strong> Trust); Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan, NCBS, Bangalore; Mr. Vijay Moktan, WWF Bhutan i j <strong>annual</strong> <strong>report</strong> 59