Welcome back to the second of our two-part chat with Vena!

Vena Kapoor works with the Education and Public Engagement Programme at Nature Conservation Foundation in Bengaluru. She is interested in ecology, nature education research and outreach, looking for and documenting spiders and other 6 and 8 legged creatures.

Twitter: @venadavenu

Popular Writing:

• Spiders: the weavers and stalkers among us
• Nature Underfoot: Wild Flora and Fauna on City Pavements and Waysides
• Life on the Vertical: Exploring Nature on City Walls
• Vena's 6 favourite species of spiders from the Western Ghats
• Off to see spiders! - a children's book

Journal Articles:

• Restoring Rainforest Fragments: Survival of mixed-native species seedlings under contrasting site conditions
• An assessment of spider sampling methods in tropical rainforest fragments of the Anamalai Hills
• Effects of rainforest fragmentation and shade-coffee plantations on spider communities

Shownotes:

• The Montessori model of education, The concept of climate grief, retaining hope in conservation and the conservation optimism story, the silent-valley agitation and what exactly is iNaturalist?
• People mentioned on the show: Suhel Quader, M D Madhusudan, Birute Galdikas, Diane Fossey
• Wildlife: Mantids, potter wasps, tarantulas, fig-fig wasp associations