Ruchi Badola is an Indian-born

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at the

Wildlife Institute of India The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is an autonomous natural resource service institution established in 1982 under the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate change, Government of India. WII carries out wildlife research in areas of stu ...

Dehradun Dehradun () is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislative As ...

in the Department of Eco-development Planning and Participatory Management. She has conducted research in the field of community based

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; sustainable

biodiversity Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic (''genetic variability''), species (''species diversity''), and ecosystem (''ecosystem diversity'') l ...

;

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, and

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Education

She obtained her master’s from

Garhwal University Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University(HNBGU) (formerly known as Garhwal University) is a Central University (India), Central University, established in 1973, located in Srinagar, Uttarakhand in Northern India. The university is named after ...

and joined the Wildlife Institute of India in 1988 as a research scholar and pursued her PhD on Economic Assessment of People Forest Interactions in the Elephant Forest Corridor Linking the

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and

Corbett National Park Jim Corbett National Park is a national park in India located in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand state. The first national park in India, it was established in 1936 during the British Raj and named ''Hailey National Park'' after William ...

Contribution to research

She leads the “Pravasi Ganga Prahari” programme which is a platform for citizens of Indian origin, and others residing across the globe to contribute towards

Ganga The Ganges ( ) (in India: Ganga ( ); in Bangladesh: Padma ( )). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river to which India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China are the riparian states." is ...

Cleanliness and rejuvenation under National Mission for Clean Ganga vision. Other conservation programme, she has made critical contributions are "Biodiversity Conservation and Ganga Rejuvenation" project to aquatic life in the Ganga,; ENVIS Centre on Wildlife & Protected Areas; World Commission on Protected Areas and

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in India. She has published widely in peer reviewed journals and has authored chapters in seven books. Most recently, she was of the lead author in International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) assessment report on Hindu Kush Himalayas, and has contributed chapter on "Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Hindu Kush Himalaya."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Badola, Ruchi Living people Indian conservationists 21st-century Indian writers 21st-century Indian women writers Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)