Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil (born 24 May 1942) is an Indian ecologist,
academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the ''Centre for Ecological Sciences'',
a research forum under the aegis of the
Indian Institute of Science
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute wa ...
.
He is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the
Prime Minister of India
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and the Head of the ''Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel'' (WGEEP) of 2010, popularly known as the
Gadgil Commission.
He is a recipient of the
Volvo Environment Prize
The Volvo Environment Prize is an annual international award originating in Sweden. The prize is awarded to individuals who "''explore the way to a sustainable world''." The prize is awarded by the independent foundation ''The Volvo Environment P ...
and the
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
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. The
Government of India
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awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the
Padma Shri
Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...
in 1981 and followed it up with the third highest award of the
Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...
in 2006.
Academic career
Gadgil was born on 24 May 1942
in
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...
, in the western Indian state of
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
. His parents were Pramila and
Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, a Cambridge scholar,
economist, former director of the
Gokhale Institute and the author of the
Gadgil formula.
He graduated in biology from
Fergusson College
Fergusson College is an autonomous public-private college offering various courses in the streams of arts and science in the city of Pune, India. It was founded in 1885 by the Deccan Education Society. Professor Vaman Shivram Apte was its fir ...
of the
University of Pune
Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Poona, is a collegiate public state university located in the city of Pune, India. It was established in 1949, and is spread over a campus in the neighbourhood of Ganeshk ...
in 1963, and secured a master's degree in zoology from the
Mumbai University
The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai.
The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed ...
in 1965.
Harvard years
Gadgil was encouraged to join
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
by
Giles Mead, then curator of fishes at the
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan cler ...
. Initially intending to do research under Mead, Gadgil later changed subjects by hearing lectures of
E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, entomologist and writer. According to David Attenborough, Wilson was the world's leading expert in his specialty of myrmecology, the study of an ...
, "the brightest young star in the ecology-evolution end of biology at Harvard at that time," and subsequently did his doctoral research on mathematical ecology and fish behaviour, under the guidance of William Bossert,
one of Wilson's former students.
It earned him a PhD in 1969.
Subsequently, he received a Fellowship from
IBM to continue his work as a research fellow at the Harvard Computing Center and simultaneously worked as a lecturer of biology at the university for two years.
Return to India
He returned to India in 1971
and took up a job as a scientific officer at
Agharkar Research Institute
The Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by ar ...
of the Maharashtra Association for Cultivation of Science, Pune where he stayed for two years.
In 1973, he joined the
Indian Institute of Science
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute wa ...
(IISc),
Bengaluru
Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...
, starting an association that would stretch for over thirty years, superannuating from the institute as its chairman in 2004.
During this period, he established two research centres at IISc, the ''Centre of Theoretical Studies'' and the ''Centre for Ecological Studies''.
He also worked as a visiting professor at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
(1991) and the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
(1995). After his retirement from IISc, he went back to Pune in 2004 to resume his association with Agharkar Research Institute
and holds the
Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (31 July 1907 – 29 June 1966) was an Indian polymath with interests in mathematics, statistics, philology, history, and genetics. He contributed to genetics by introducing the ''Kosambi map function''. In stati ...
chair of the visiting research professor at the
University of Goa.
In 1976, when the
Government of Karnataka
The Government of Karnataka, abbreviated as, GoK, or simply Karnataka Government, is a democratically-elected state body with the governor as the ceremonial head to govern the Southwest Indian state of Karnataka. The governor who is appointed ...
decided to look into protecting the bamboo resources of the state, Gadgil was asked to conduct a study, which is reported to have influenced the government to curb the subsidies provided to forest based industries.
A decade later, in 1986, he was appointed as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister of India, a post he held till 1990.
During this period, he assisted the efforts to establish the first
biosphere
The biosphere (from Greek βίος ''bíos'' "life" and σφαῖρα ''sphaira'' "sphere"), also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος ''oîkos'' "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also be ...
reserve in the country at the
Nilgiris
The Nilgiri Mountains form part of the Western Ghats in northwestern Tamil Nadu, Southern Karnataka, and eastern Kerala in India. They are located at the trijunction of three states and connect the Western Ghats with the Eastern Ghats. At le ...
in 1986.
In 1998, he was appointed the chairman of the ''Science and Technology Advisory Panel of Global Environment Facility'', an agency under the United Nations. He held the chair till 2002. He also served as a member of the environmental education panel of the
National Council of Educational Research and Training
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India which was established in 1961 as a literary, scientific and charitable Society under the Societies Registration Act. Its head ...
(NCERT) and as a member of the
National Advisory Council
The National Advisory Council (NAC) of India was a unconstitutional body set up by the first United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to advise the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh. Sonia Gandhi served as its chairperson for much of th ...
.
He is a member of the
National Tiger Conservation Authority
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was established in December 2005, following a recommendation of the Tiger Task Force, constituted by the Prime Minister of India for reorganised management of Project Tiger and the many Tiger Re ...
and is the chairman of the committee proposing ''Environmental Education Curriculum'' at School level.
In 2010, when the Government of India constituted an expert panel, ''Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel'' (WGEEP), to examine the ecological issues related to the
Western Ghats, he was selected as the chairman of the panel.
Personal life
Gadgil, an active sportsman during his college years, held the Maharashtra State Junior and
Pune University
Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Poona, is a collegiate public state university located in the city of Pune, India. It was established in 1949, and is spread over a campus in the neighbourhood of Ganeshk ...
high jump records in 1959 and 1961 respectively. He has also represented Pune University at the All India University Athletic meet.
He is married to
Sulochana Gadgil, a noted
meteorologist
A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists in research, while t ...
and a
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
scholar, whom he met during his Fergusson College years.
The couple has a daughter, who is a journalist cum Spanish teacher, and a son, a mathematician.
The family lives in Pune, his home town. His life story has been recorded in a biographical book, ''Vidnyanyatri – Dr. Madhav Gadgil'', written in
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
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by A. P. Deshpande.
Legacy
![Poomparai village](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Poomparai_village.jpg)
One of the major contributions of Gadgil is his effort towards the preservation of ecology of India. His early researches in the 1980s have helped in the identification of the
Nilgiris
The Nilgiri Mountains form part of the Western Ghats in northwestern Tamil Nadu, Southern Karnataka, and eastern Kerala in India. They are located at the trijunction of three states and connect the Western Ghats with the Eastern Ghats. At le ...
as the first
biosphere
The biosphere (from Greek βίος ''bíos'' "life" and σφαῖρα ''sphaira'' "sphere"), also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος ''oîkos'' "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also be ...
reserve in India.
As the chairman of the ''Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel'' (WGEEP), which later came to be known as the
Gadgil Commission, he submitted a report in 2011,
marking around 64 percent of the Western Ghats region as ''Ecologically Sensitive Area'' (ESA).
The report attracted support and dissension,
the environmentalists welcoming the recommendations and the state governments of the neighbouring states and the
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
lat, Ecclesia Syrorum-Malabarensium mal, മലബാറിലെ സുറിയാനി സഭ
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, caption = The Mar Thoma Nasrani Sl ...
of Kerala disapproving it.
This paved way for the subsequent
Kasturirangan Commission, which diluted the recommendations to a level more acceptable to the state governments.
He has been credited by many with the introduction of quantitative investigations of ecology and animal behaviour in India and for including humans as a vital part of
ecosystems
An ecosystem (or ecological system) consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the syste ...
.
His contributions, as a member of the draft committee, has been reported in the preparation of the Biological Diversity Act 2002
and the manual he prepared for the ''People's Biodiversity Registers'' has been accepted by the
National Biodiversity Authority
The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is a statutory autonomous body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and climate change, Government of India established in 2003 to implement the provisions under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 ...
.
He is still associated with the Authority in the preparation of a biodiversity inventory at the local bodies' level.
Gadgil is known to have done extensive researches in the areas of
population biology
The term population biology has been used with different meanings.
In 1971 Edward O. Wilson ''et al''. used the term in the sense of applying mathematical models to population genetics, community ecology, and population dynamics. Alan Hastings us ...
,
conservation biology
Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an int ...
,
human ecology
Human ecology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments. The philosophy and study of human ecology has a diffuse history with advancements in ecolog ...
and
ecological history. His researches have been documented by over 250 scientific articles,
published in various journals and magazines.
He developed a penchant for writing at an early age and his first publication was a series of ten articles on animal behaviour, published in ''
Srishtidnyan'', a
Marathi language
Marathi (; ''Marāṭhī'', ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the official language of Maharashtra, and additional official language in the state o ...
science magazine, when he was studying in the 10th standard.
His doctoral thesis is reported to have been a citation classic.
He published his first book in English,
This Fissured Land, a book on the ecological history of India, in 1992.
The next book, ''Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India'',
again co-authored by
Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economics. ...
, was released in 1995, followed by ''Nurturing Biodiversity: An Indian Agenda'', a book co-authored by P. R. Seshagiri Rao, in 1998.
In 2005, he published two books, ''Diversity : The cornerstone of life''
and ''Ecological Journeys''.
As a part of his responsibilities as a ''Pew Fellow in Conservation and the Environment'',
he has contributed towards the preparation of ''People's Biodiversity Registers'' and has published a manual, ''People's Biodiversity Registers: A Methodology Manual''.
Some of his books have been translated into many languages and serve as texts for academic studies.
He has also published two books,
''Nisarganiyojan Lokasahabhagane'' being one among them,
and over 40 articles in Marathi and handled a fortnightly column on natural history, in
The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...
, from 1999 till 2004.
He handles a monthly column in the Marathi daily,
Sakal
''Sakal'' (Marathi: सकाळ, meaning "Morning") is a Marathi-language daily newspaper by Sakal Media Group, its headquarters established in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Sakal is the flagship newspaper of the foundation publication, Sakal Med ...
.
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* Madhav Gadgil (2013), Science, democracy and ecology in India. Nehru Memorial Museum & Library
Awards and recognition
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The
Indian National Science Academy
The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology.
In August 2019, Dr. Chandrima Shaha was appointed as the president of Indian National Science Academ ...
(INSA) elected him as their Fellow in 1984.
Six years later, the two other major science academies of India, The
Indian Academy of Sciences
The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meet ...
(IAS)
and the
National Academy of Sciences, India
The National Academy of Sciences, India, established in 1930, is the oldest science academy in India. It is located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Prof. Meghnad Saha was the founder president.
Fellows
*Suddhasatwa Basu
* Sudha Bhattacharya
* Ch ...
(NASI), followed suit by electing him as a Fellow in 1990.
He is Fellow of the
Third World Academy of Sciences
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is a merit-based science academy established for developing countries, uniting 1,000 scientists in some 70 countries. Its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable devel ...
(TWAS), an honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) and a recipient of the National Environment Fellowship of the
Ministry of Environment and Forests
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is an Indian government ministry. This ministry is headed by Secretary Rank senior most IAS officer. The ministry portfolio is currently held by Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister of ...
for his field research in the
Western Ghats.
He was elected as a Foreign Associate of the
US National Academy of Sciences
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in 1991
and he serves as a member of the
British Ecological Society
The British Ecological Society is a learned society in the field of ecology that was founded in 1913. It is the oldest ecological society in the world. The Society's original objective was "to promote and foster the study of Ecology in its widest ...
and Ecological Society of America.
The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the
Padma Shri
Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...
in 1981
and the
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the l ...
(CSIR), an autonomous government agency awarded him
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...
, the highest Indian award in the Science and Technology sector, in 1986.
In between, in 1983, the Government of Karnataka honoured him with
Rajyotsava Prashasthi, their second highest civilian award.
His alma mater,
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
, presented him with the
Harvard Centennial Medal The Harvard Centennial Medal is an honor given by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to recipients of graduate degrees from the School for their "contributions to society."
The Medal was established in 1989 on the 100th anniversary o ...
, an annual honour given to its alumni for their achievements in their respective field of service, in 2002.
The next year, he shared the 2003
Volvo Environment Prize
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of the Volvo Environment Prize Foundation, with
Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance ...
, the
social entrepreneur
Social entrepreneurship is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. This concept may be applied to a wide range of o ...
from Bangladesh.
Gadgil received the
Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...
, the third highest civilian award from the Government of India in 2006
and the
H. K. Firodia award of the H. K. Firodia Foundation reached him a year later, in 2007.
The
Central University of Orissa
Central University of Odisha (CUO), formerly Central University of Orissa, was established by parliament under the Central Universities Act, 2009 (No. 3C of 2009) by Government of India, situated at Sunabeda Town, Koraput District in the Indian st ...
honoured him with the degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) in 2013
and
The Energy and Resources Institute
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is a research institute in New Delhi that specializes in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development. Established in 1974, it was formerly known as the Tata Energy Research Institute. ...
(TERI) recognised the contributions of the ''Western Ghats Ecology Experts Panel'' (WGEEP) and its chairman with the Georgescu-Roegen Award in 2014.
The
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...
awarded him the
John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2015, which he shared with
Jane Lubchenco
Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist who teaches and conducts research at Oregon State University. Her research interests include interactions between the environment and human well-be ...
, a Distinguished Professor of
Oregon State University
Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering co ...
,
making him the second Indian, after
M. S. Swaminathan
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born 7 August 1925) is an Indian agronomist, agricultural scientist, plant geneticist, administrator and humanitarian. Swaminathan is a global leader of the green revolution. He has been called the main archi ...
, to receive the Prize.
He is also a recipient of the
Vikram Sarabhai
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (12 August 1919 – 30 December 1971) was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped develop nuclear power in India. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vibhushan ...
Award and
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar Award.
He received the Fergusson Gaurav Puraskar 2019, for being an Outstanding Alumnus from his
Alma Mater,
Fergusson College
Fergusson College is an autonomous public-private college offering various courses in the streams of arts and science in the city of Pune, India. It was founded in 1885 by the Deccan Education Society. Professor Vaman Shivram Apte was its fir ...
on 6 January 2019.
Eponymy
''Elaeocarpus gadgilii'', is a tree species described in 2021 from the Nelliampathy hills in Palakkad district of Kerala, India named in honour of him.
[Manoharan, M.A., Prabhukumar, K.M., Arjun, S.K., Jose, S. and Veerankutty, S., 2021. Elaeocarpus gadgilii (Elaeocarpaceae), a new species from Western Ghats (India)]
Phytotaxa, 489(1), pp.87-93
See also
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This Fissured Land
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Gadgil Commission
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National Biodiversity Authority
The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is a statutory autonomous body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and climate change, Government of India established in 2003 to implement the provisions under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 ...
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National Council of Educational Research and Training
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India which was established in 1961 as a literary, scientific and charitable Society under the Societies Registration Act. Its head ...
*
National Advisory Council
The National Advisory Council (NAC) of India was a unconstitutional body set up by the first United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to advise the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh. Sonia Gandhi served as its chairperson for much of th ...
*
National Tiger Conservation Authority
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was established in December 2005, following a recommendation of the Tiger Task Force, constituted by the Prime Minister of India for reorganised management of Project Tiger and the many Tiger Re ...
*
Agharkar Research Institute
The Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by ar ...
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Sulochana Gadgil
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Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil
References
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