I am a wildlife conservationist and researcher from India. My research focuses on understanding the different facets of human-wildlife conflict and finding ways to promote co-existence between humans and wild animals.

Since 2012, I have been working with various organisations in India to better understand what drives human-wildlife conflict and how it manifests on ground and in reality. Over time, I grew more interested in understanding how habitat loss influences conflict, especially among humans and Asian elephants.

My PhD study gives me the unique opportunity to examine how habitat loss, a major threat to wildlife, influences wildlife distribution and human-elephant conflict. In the coming years, I will assess how tropical dry forests in India have changed since 1900 and the kind of impact this has had on the distribution of large mammals and on human-elephant conflict.

tamanna.kalam@hu-berlin.de
+49 (0) 30 2093 9341
Rudower Chaussee 16, 12489 Berlin
Room 2'101