Publications

Johnson, J.A., Rajpurkar, S., Aggarwal, A. et al. (2026).

This document reports on the population status of dugongs in Tamil Nadu, covering Palk Bay, including the Dugong Conservation Reserve and seagrass habitats in the Gulf of Mannar. The report presents population estimates using non-invasive, state of the art tools, confirming that together, Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannar represent India’s largest viable dugong population.

Jones, B. et al. (2022), Ecology & Society, 2(10)

Published in Ecology & Society, this paper used tropical seagrass meadows in the Indo-Pacific as a model social-ecological system to investigate how sustainable development initiatives can result in unintended consequences with both positive and negative outcomes for the environment and society. The researchers analysed initiatives and their effects to show that sustainable development initiatives can produce unintended effects with major consequences that can undermine the initiative’s objectives. The paper emphasises the need for an a priori process that considers effects when planning interventions.

Wabnitz, C.C. et al. (2018), PloS one, 13(5).

Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). (2016). C. Cabrido (Ed.). Quezon City, Philippines: BMB-DENR, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Global Environment Facility (GEF), Foundation for the Philippine Environment.

Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand (2015)

Asian Development Bank (2014)

National Biodiversity Working Group (2011). Ministry of Economy and Development, United Nations Development Programme & the Global Environment Facility