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Mahi Puri wins Best Talk award at Student Conference on Conservation Science – New York

By | October 14th, 2021|biodiversity, conservation, graduate students, India, interdisciplinary, TCD|

Congratulations to Mahi Puri for winning the prestigious Best Talk award at the Student Conference on Conservation Science - New York hosted by the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History.  The meeting was held virtually from 5-8 October, 2021.  Her talk was entitled "An integrated approach to prioritize carnivore conservation in [...]

Introducing Dr. Mahi Puri !!

By | June 30th, 2021|conservation, ecology, graduate students, India, TCD, WEC|

Mahi Puri successfully defended her PhD dissertation on Monday, June 28th in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida.  Her dissertation "Prioritizing and Identifying Opportunities for Carnivore Conservation in Human-dominated Landscapes of India" examined three main objectives: "1) determining habitat-use patterns for 4 carnivores (tiger, leopard, [...]

Mahi Puri wins ESA’s Murray F. Buell Award

By | April 6th, 2021|biodiversity, conservation, graduate students, India, interdisciplinary, research|

Mahi Puri, PhD candidate in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation won the outstanding oral presentation by a graduate student at the 2020 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting.  There she presented her work entitled "The balancing act: maintaining leopard-prey equilibrium could offer economic benefits to people in a shared forest landscape of central India".  Mahi has long [...]

The Balancing Act – New Publication from Mahi Puri & Colleagues on Leopards in Human-Dominated Landscapes in India

By | November 19th, 2019|camera, ecology, graduate students, India, interdisciplinary|

Congratulations to WEC PhD candidate Mahi Puri and her colleagues Arjun Srivathsa, Krithi Karanth, Imran Patel and N. Samba Kumar for their new publication in Ecological Indicators: The balancing act: maintaining leopard-wild prey equilibrium could offer economic benefits to people in a shared forest landscape of central India. This article shows that abundance of wild [...]

Mahi Puri publishes new paper examining human-carnivore interactions in India

By | June 5th, 2019|conservation, graduate students, India|

Congratulations to Arjun Srivathsa, Mahi Puri, Krithi Karanth, Imran Patel and Samba Kumar for their recently published paper "Examining human-carnivore interactions using a socio-ecological framework: sympatric wild canids in India as a case study" in Royal Society Open Science.  You can access this paper here. Using a socio-ecological framework, their study examines what factors [...]

Mahi Puri publishes new paper on Ecotourism in India

By | May 25th, 2018|conservation, graduate students, India, research|

With co-authors Krithi Karanth (WCS-India) and Brijesh Thapa (UF), Mahi Puri's paper "Trends and pathways for ecotourism research in India" appeared in the Journal of Ecotourism in May 2018. Reviewing 30 studies on ecotourism since 2005, the authors identified research gaps in ecotourism as well as the reasons to develop ecotourism.  Mahi and colleagues also [...]