Saloni Bhatia

About

Interdisciplinary researcher–practitioner working at the intersection of conservation, culture, and social justice, with 15 years of field engagement in the Indian Himalaya. Integrate systems thinking, participatory and rights-based approaches to examine how human and more-than-human communities navigate ecocultural change, geopolitical pressures, and contested land governance. Prioritise building ethical engagement and long-term relationships for meaningful impact.

Employment

• Centre for Wildlife Studies Postdoctoral Fellow
  2019 - 2019
• Nature Conservation Foundation Research Affiliate
  2013 - 2015
• Nature Conservation Foundation Associate (Research & Policy)
  2011 - 2012
• Samrakshan Trust Outreach Coordinator
  2010 - 2010
• Jai Hind College Visiting Lecturer in Environment Management
  2010 - 2010
• Land of the Wild Naturalist
  2009 - 2011

Education

• Nature Conservation Foundation Research Scholar
  2016 - 2019
• University of Oxford MSc. Biodiversity, Conservation and Management
  2010 - 2011
• Sikkim Manipal University Sustainable Development
  2007 - 2009
• University of Mumbai English Literature
  2004 - 2007

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (12)

• Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward
  Conservation Letters 2024 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13004
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• What's on the horizon for community-based conservation? Emerging threats and opportunities
  Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.02.008
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• Chasms in charismatic species research: Seventy years of carnivore science and its implications for conservation and policy in India
  Biological Conservation 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109694
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• Rethinking the study of human–wildlife coexistence
  Conservation Biology 2021 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13653
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• Understanding people’s responses toward predators in the Indian Himalaya
  Animal Conservation 2021 DOI: 10.1111/acv.12647
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• Understanding People’s Relationship With Wildlife in Trans-Himalayan Folklore
  Frontiers in Environmental Science 2021
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• Beyond conflict: exploring the spectrum of human–wildlife interactions and their underlying mechanisms
  Oryx 2019 DOI: 10.1017/s003060531800159x
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• The Relationship Between Religion and Attitudes Toward Large Carnivores in Northern India?
  Human Dimensions of Wildlife 2016 DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2016.1220034
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• Vegetation-environment relationships in a South Asian tropical montane grassland ecosystem: restoration implications
  Tropical Ecology 2015
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• Tilting at wildlife: reconsidering human–wildlife conflict
  Oryx 2014 DOI: 10.1017/s0030605314000799
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