About the Project
The Protected Area Update database has been created by the Environment and Ecology Research Group (EERG) at the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (C-TARA), IIT Bombay.
It is the an outcome of a project titled 'Geo-Spatial Mapping of 28 years of media reporting on livelihoods and wildlife conservation in India' (RD/0122-GISIR00-002) supported financially by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India through the GISE Hub at IIT Bombay.
People
Pankaj Sekhsaria
Principal Investigator, Co-ordinator, the Environment and Ecology Research Group (EERG) And Associate Professor, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (C-TARA). IIT Bombay [email protected]Reshma Jathar
Project Research Associate, Ecologist, Environmental Researcher & Journalist [email protected]About the PA Update
The Protected Area Update (PA Update), a 24-page newsletter in English, provides an overview of what is happening in the field of wildlife protection and conservation in Protected Areas from across South Asia, particularly India.
The PA Update is published six times a year and mailed to nearly 2000 people including students, teachers, activists, and researchers. Additionally, it goes out as an electronic version via an emailing list to about 4500 individuals and is uploaded on the Kalpavriksh website as well.
The newsletter, in its 31st year of publication, has curated and published 6000+ news reports over the years. This number is constantly increasing with each issue of the newsletter. Though not a fully comprehensive collection, the PA Update archive provides important insights into the discourse of wildlife conservation in India, how the news media has perceived wildlife, environment, and development issues in the country over the past three decades.
The Maharashtra Sanrakshit Kshetra Vartapatra (MSKV), is a sister-publication of the PA Update. The MSKV, in its 6th year of publication, is published quarterly. This 24-page newsletter in Marathi, comprises news and information on Protected Areas and wildlife in Maharashtra.
Publications based on PA Update
Books
The State of Wildlife in North-East India 1996-2011: A compilation of news from the Protected Area Update.
Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria
Published in 2013 by the Foundation for Ecological Security; 295 pp and 100 line drawings.
Price: Rs. 400
The State of Wildlife and Protected Areas in Maharashtra: News and information from the Protected Area Update 1996-2015.
Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria
Published in 2019 by The Duleep Matthai Nature Conservation Trust, Kalpavriksh and Rainfed Books; xii + 235 pp and 100 line drawings.
ISBN: 978-8-19232-693-1
Price: Rs. 400
Conservation Kaleidoscope: People, Protected Areas and Wildlife in Contemporary India.
Editor: Pankaj Sekhsaria
Published in 2021 by Kalpavriksh, Duleep Matthai Nature Conservation Trust and Authors Upfront; 432pp.
ISBN: 978-9-38728-070-0
Price: Rs. 650
Peer Reviewed Papers
Narayan, T. and Sekhsaria P. 2019. Media reporting on protected areas in Maharashtra, India: A
thematic analysis. Journal of Threatened Taxa 11(2);
https://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/4461