Dr. Narayan Sharma studies community and behavioural ecology, and the conservation biology of the primates in the fragmented landscape of the Upper Brahmaputra Valley of northeastern India. He is also interested in political, human and landscape ecology, and ecological history. More recently, he has also been deeply involved in teaching environmental biology and wildlife sciences at Cotton College, Guwahati, where he is an Assistant Professor.

Twitter: @assamensis7

Popular Writing:

• Spotting a Mighty Troop of Stump-tailed Macaques
• The singing farmers of the forest
• Pig-tailed Macaque: Elusive Monkey of the Deep Forest

Journal Articles:

• Size matters! The largest wild stump-tailed macaque Macaca arctoides troop ever reported, located in the Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, northeastern India
• Chronic extraction of forest resources is threatening a unique wildlife habitat of the Upper Brahmaputra Valley, northeastern India
• Socio-economic Drivers of Forest Cover Change in Assam: A Historical Perspective

Show notes:

• Department of Environment Biology and Wildlife Science, Cotton University, Guwahati
• An interview with Nicholas J. Gotelli
• After Assam oilfield fire, a central agency sought a review of environmental clearances to Oil India