Doctoral Associate
Nishant is instrumental in starting a multi-institution, multi-disciplinary collaboration to manage Asian elephants in India. Over the last decade he has been monitoring elephants, understanding their behaviour and interactions with humans to find solutions to conserve elephants.
Ongoing Projects
Completed Projects
Financial Resilience during Covid-19 to Conserve Endangered Species and Critical Habitats in Biodiversity Hotspots of India• Completed:
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Towards Mitigation of Human and Elephant Conflict through Fence Line Expansion — Expansion of Community Fencing• Completed:
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Co‐creating Spaces for Humans and Elephant Coexistence• Completed:
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Towards an Empathetic World with Elephants• Completed:
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Elephant on the Zebra Crossing• Completed:
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My Elephant in My Village• Completed:
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The Elephant in the Towns Commons• Completed:
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Publications
Journal Article
- Human-animal interactions: Camera traps as research agents
- The elephant in the city: the trialectics of space in the rurban elephants of southern IndiaSinha_Nishant_2021_ElephantInCity.pdf (4.19 MB)
- Elephants on the Move: Implications for Human–Elephant Interaction
- All-Male Groups in Asian Elephants: A Novel, Adaptive Social Strategy in Increasingly Anthropogenic Landscapes of Southern India
- Millennial male elephants of the eastern ghatsWLB_Srinivasaiah_2019_Hornbill.pdf (8.1 MB)
- Usual Populations, Unusual Individuals: Insights into the Behavior and Management of Asian Elephants in Fragmented Landscapes
Report
- Elephant on the Zebra Crossing: Predicting human-elephant conflict to inform urban development in and around Bengaluru city.Jayadevanetal_2023_report.pdf (6.16 MB)
- Towards mitigation of human and elephant conflict through fence line expansion – Expansion of community fencingAnandRamuetal_2023_Report.pdf (4.91 MB)
- The Elephant in the Towns Commons: A Participatory Approach to Conserve Asian Elephants in a Developing Country (India) and to Mitigate Human-Elephant Conflict
- Wildlife Crossing Structures for the Shencottah Wildlife Corridor
- Impact of Linear Intrusions on Large Mammal Movement in the Shencottah GapVaidyanathan_et_al_2016.pdf (2.9 MB)
- Identifying Barriers and Optimizing Restoration of Large Mammal Connectivity Across Linear Intrusions in the Shencottah Gap
- Insights into individual movement and dispersal using camera trap data and conservation implications at the population-level