Divya Mudappa, bulk: 2022-05-21, 2022-06-25

Divya Mudappa is a Wildlife and Conservation Scientist at the Nature Conservation Foundation, India. She is known for her work on the Western Ghats restoration project, where she and her team work to ecologically restore rainforest fragments in plantations and estates. She specialises in studying hornbills and small carnivores, specifically those involved in frugivory and seed dispersal. She has worked extensively on the distribution, abundance and nest-monitoring of Hornbills along the Western Ghats. Her primary research areas are tropical ecology, particularly rainforests, and applied ecological subjects such as restoration ecology and conservation biology. She was presented the Wildlife Services Award by Sanctuary Asia which she shared with T. R. Shankar Raman for their work in Restoration Ecology. She has co-authored Pillars of Life with T. R. Shankar Raman, which is an illustrated book on the rainforest trees of the southern Western Ghats. Her long-term plan is to improve the scientific understanding of the patterns and processes of tropical ecosystems and use that knowledge to implement conservation programmes that would benefit both wildlife and local communities.