Date of Publish: 2022-01-04

In this special podcast, Dr Ambika Aiyadurai, a distinguished scholar, author, and an environmental anthropologist shares about her years of extensive research work on how traditional belief of Idu Mishmi community in Dibang valley in Arunachal Pradesh supports tiger conservation and wildlife conservation. Dr Aiyadurai teaches Anthropology, Humanities and Social Science in the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar in Gujarat. She has authored the book “Tigers are our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India” based on her years of extensive research work. In this exclusive interview with nezine.com, Dr Aiyadurai also explains the importance of multidisciplinary approach, both as wildlife biologist and environmental anthropologist, to understand people-nature, human-animal relation in the context of India’s northeast region.