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There has been a tremendous
increase in field based research in wildlife conservation and management in the
recent past. In order to disseminate scientific information to field managers,
wildlife biologists, teachers and voluntary organisations, the Wildlife
Institute of India (WII) brings out technical reports and manuals, workshop
proceedings, and publishes research reports, research papers, popular articles
and other documents.
Over the years WII has
published 16 technical manuals,
more that 120 technical
& research Reports, 256
workshop proceedings,
more than 500 research papers, and
more than 96 popular articles.
The research scholars working in various research projects in the Institute are
encouraged to enroll for M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree, and till today 52
Ph.D. and 1 M.Phil. dissertation
have been submitted by them. It must be emphasized that wildlife science is
essentially a field subject and personnel can't be adequately trained without a
major component of field studies. Hence in addition to a large amount of field
work associated with the course work of our master's programme, A six month
field research project is included in the 2 years programme. So far, 76
M.Sc. Dissertations have been submitted by our M.Sc. Students.
The institute also regularly
publishes a quarterly newsletter containing information on various activities of
this Institute. This publication acts as a medium for interaction among
participants of all the regular courses and short courses, workshops and
seminars organised by the Institute. The WII newsletter allows field managers to
present their views as well as to report on the latest development in the field.
Presently some thousand copies of newsletter are being sent out to Foresters,PA
Managers, Zoo Managers, Teachers, Lawyers, Voluntary Organisations and
interested individuals, free of charge.
The
Environmental Information System
(ENVIS) Centre on "Wildlife and Protected Areas" at WII also publishes a
bi-annual bulletin on different conservation themes for dissemination of
scientific information to a large number of users. |