Interns/volunteers

Wildlife Research and Conservation Trust's research and outreach programmes involve several interns and volunteers. Current interns are:

M. Jamshi

I am an entomology graduate, with specific interest in the diversity of hymenopterans in peninsular India. Recently, as a part of my M.Sc. dissertation, I studied the diversity of ants in the Nilambur plains, which resulted in the discovery of several species new to the region. I am also interested in the selection and testing of terrestrial insects, especially ants as bioindicators of environmental health and change.

M. Divin Murukesh

I am interested in conservation ecology and science popularisation. My work focuses on the impacts of roads on the fauna of the southern Western Ghats, especially in the state highway traverses across the Nilgiri Hills. The ecological impacts of the busy roads in the wildlife corridors are seldom studied. Understanding these patterns is ideally suited to explain the reciprocal interactions between conservation and developmental processes. I am also interested in the systematics of dragon and damsel flies.