Why Flagship Species Receive Conservation Funding

How should India balance wildlife conservation with development, local livelihoods and the need for scientific research?

In this discussion, Prof Qamar Qureshi, formerly of the Wildlife Institute of India, and Prof Uma Ramakrishnan of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, examine the changing approaches to conservation, the challenges of protecting threatened species and the need to make conservation science more inclusive and responsive to the realities on the ground.

Host: Jacob Koshy

Producer: Jude Weston

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