The Kaigal Group
During the early part of 2021, the teachers of our Sanctuary Schools, a few students from the Schools and our Kaigal Trust team got together at the Kaigal Conservation Centre for a shoot and a happy get together.
SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
DECEMBER 2022
Anaswara a Ph.D student in ecology from IISER Trivandrum does research on butterflies to identify and document their host plants in the Kaigal and Thottakanama forests in December 2022.
Video of Anaswara explaining about her research work
Suresh from FEEL locating butterfly larva and host plants in the field.
PhD student, Kavya, from IISER (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research), Tiruvananthapuram, residing in Kaigal Conservation Centre since January 2021, studying foraging pattern of honey bees in forest boundary and farms
Manasvi , Post Graduate student from The University of Transdisciplinary Sciences (FRLHT),Bangalore, working on “Ethnobotanical studies on medicinal plants used by Yanadi Tribes” in Chittoor district
Jayapal from FEEL also assisted Kavya by explaining the benefits of her study to the neighbourhood farmers and locating bee boxes in the farm boundary.
Akshay, PG student from IISER, Thiruvananthapuram, spent over three months at the Kaigal Conservation Centre from March 2021 observing the behavior of social spider Stegodyphus sarasinorum
