The Gadoli and Manda Khal Biodiversity Conservation Project
This project aims to protect, study, preserve and conserve these private forests through in-situ actions from passive restoration, species monitoring, biodiversity assessments, threat mitigation and habitat protection to maintain conservation gains over a long time-scale.
This project is being implemented by Subir Mario Chowfin as the Principal Investigator and Dr. Alison J. Leslie, Ph.D. of the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) as the Scientific Advisor.
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Biodiversity surveys here since 2016 based on visual encounter surveys, photo-documentation and camera-trapping have recorded an initial species pool of 180 species to date consisting of herbs, shrubs, trees, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
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