HIMANI NAUTIYAL, D.SC.
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 Hi, I am a Biological Anthropologist working as researcher with Howard University, Washington DC, USA, and  National Institute of Advanced Studies, India. Having grown up in a remote village of the Indian Himalayas, I have developed a profound understanding of the Himalayan landscape, local communities, culture, and traditional knowledge. It is a well-known fact that habitat loss, due to anthropogenic activity, is a key factor driving the decline of many wildlife across the globe. I believe conservation of such species is possible only with the coexistence of people and wildlife. I have successfully established my long-term research site and intensively studied the Himalayan Langur (Semnopithecus schistaceus) in the western Himalayas, Uttarakhand India. In the past seven years of my field research in the higher Himalayas, I strived towards developing a multidisciplinary approach as a means to identify and predict the critical factors driving distinct threats to biodiversity as well as to local communities. This helped me devise a one-of-a-kind paradigm for animal-human coexistence using primates (Himalayan Langur, which is a virtually unknown species) as a model since they are the ideal species for behavior studies. Based on my research, I have already started the mitigation practices to facilitate the coexistence of locals and wild animals.
 

Latest news

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Conservationist of the Year Award by We Naturalists 
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Latest project: Assessment of a multidisciplinary framework for human–wildlife coexistence. Funded by Rufford Small Grant, UK. 
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Featured in Sanctuary Asia magazine 

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​Women Empowerment: Successfully helped 80 women farmers in the Himalayas
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Interview with The Logical Indian Media 

          
Contact Details 

 Dr. Himani Nautiyal
 Email: himani.nautiyal08@gmail.com
Rui Diogo Lab, Washington DC, USA


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  • Home
  • Introduction
  • Research
  • Conservation Activities
  • Media
  • CV
  • Collaborative Projects
  • Project Interns
  • Photo Gallery (Field site)
  • Field Stories
    • The loud silence of Himalayan langur
    • Living With Langurs
    • Adventurous Life Of Langurs In The Himalayas
    • Gone Too Soon
  • YouTube Channel
  • Link Page
  • Internship opportunity