Interest in protecting the world’s biological diversity has intensified during the last few decades. Understanding the consequences of habitat change and developing effective strategies to maintain biodiversity in developed and disturbed landscapes is a major challenge.

Effective Conservation Planning should be based on rigorous field investigations, cutting-edge conservation strategies and tested ecological principles. It must also be grounded in sound land use planning approaches. While the primary focus of conservation plans is to develop management strategies for ‘natural areas’, the key to making conservation planning work is its seamless integration with human settlements and associated cultural activities.

It takes a multidisciplinary team to identify and prioritize conservation areas, assess threats to biodiversity, design and implement conservation strategies, and monitor complex changes - all at multiple scales.

It takes Biohabitats.