Ruchi Badola is an Indian-born professor and scientist at the Wildlife Institute of India , Dehradun in the Department of Eco-development Planning and Participatory Management. [ 1 ] She has conducted research in the field of community based conservation ; [ 2 ] sustainable biodiversity ; Sustainable tourism , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and ecosystem services . [ 5 ] She obtained her master’s from Garhwal University and joined the Wildlife Institute of India in 1988 as a research scholar and pursued her PhD on Economic Assessment of People Forest Interactions in the Elephant Forest Corridor Linking the Rajaji and Corbett National Park . [ 6 ] Contribution to research She leads the “Pravasi Ganga Prahari” programme [ 7 ] [ 8 ] which is a platform for citizens of Indian origin, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and others residing across the globe to contribute towards Ganga Cleanliness and rejuvenation under National Mission for Clean Ganga vision . Other conservation programme, she has made critical contributions are "Biodiversity Conservation and Ganga Rejuvenation" project to aquatic life in the Ganga,; [ 11 ] [ 12 ] ENVIS Centre on Wildlife & Protected Areas ; [ 13 ] World Commission on Protected Areas [ 14 ] and REDD+ in India. [ 15 ] She has published widely in peer reviewed journals and has authored chapters in seven books. [ 16 ] Most recently, she was of the lead author in International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) assessment report on Hindu Kush Himalayas, [ 17 ] [ 18 ] and has contributed chapter on "Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Hindu Kush Himalaya." [ 19 ] ↑ "Faculty at Wildlife Institute of India" . Wildlife Institute of India . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ Badola, Ruchi (1998). "Attitudes of local people towards conservation". Biodiversity and Conservation . 7 (10). springer: 1245– 1259. doi : 10.1023/A:1008845510498 . S2CID 43796658 . ↑ "Managing Tourism in Indian Protected Area" (PDF) . Elsevier . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "Tourism in Corbett" . Telegraph . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "Valuation of Bhitrakanika Ecological Security" (PDF) . Integrated Research and Action for Development . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "Faculty at Wildlife Institute of India" . Wildlife Institute of India . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "pravasi ganga prahari programme" . Wildlife Institute of India . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "pravasi ganga prahari programme" . Press Reader . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "uttarakhand-woman-on-a-mission-to-protect-ganga-one-village-at-a-time" . hindustantimes . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "wii-holds-workshop-to-train-local-communities-in-protecting-ganga-aquatic-species" . The Times of India . timesofindia. 14 March 2018 . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "Second phase of aquatic life census in the Ganga launched" . financialexpress. 18 May 2017 . Retrieved March 8, 2019 .

↑ "Second phase of aquatic life census in the Ganga launched" . outlookindia. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019 . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "ENVIS Centre on Wildlife & Protected Areas" . Wildlife Institute of India . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "world-commission-protected-areas" . IUCN . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "REDD+ in India" (PDF) . Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Government of India . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "researchgate" . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ Wester, Philippus; Mishra, Arabinda; Mukherji, Aditi; Shrestha, Arun Bhakta, eds. (2019). Hindu Kush Assessment Report (PDF) . ICIMOD. doi : 10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1 . hdl : 10023/17268 . ISBN 978-3-319-92287-4 . S2CID 199491088 . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ "Hindu Kush Assessment Report" . dailypioneer . Retrieved March 8, 2019 . ↑ Xu, Jianchu; Badola, Ruchi; Chettri, Nakul; Chaudhary, Ram P.; Zomer, Robert; Pokhrel, Bharat; Hussain, Syed Ainul; Pradhan, Sunita; Pradhan, Rebecca (2019). "Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Hindu Kush Himalaya". The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment . pp. 127– 165. doi : 10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_5 . ISBN 978-3-319-92287-4 . Indian conservationists 21st-century Indian writers 21st-century Indian women writers Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University alumni Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles with hCards Year of birth missing (living people)