Care Earth

About Care Earth

Care earth is an association of Scientists dedicated to bio-diversity research, education and conservation. It was founded in June 2000 and functions with the following objectives

• To conduct environmental education programmes addressing a wide range of issues such as loss of biodiversity, agricultural ecology and urban ecology.
• To provide scientific services in the area of biodiversity inventorying and monitoring and in the assessment of human impacts on environment.
• To provide services in taxonomy.
• To prepare a range of educational tools, both paper-based and electronic that could be used by school children, college-going youth and teachers.

Profile of activities includes

• 2000-2002: UNDP/GOI/MoEF: National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan – Western Ghats Ecoregion
• 2001-2002: UNDP/GOI/MoEF: Inland Wetlands of India – Tamilnadu
• 2001-2002: Project Lifescape: Freshwater fishes of Peninsular India
• 2002-2003: Project Lifescape: Amphibians of Peninsular India
• 2002-2003: Seed Grant of the Declining Amphibian Population Task Force (SSC/IUCN) – Impact of Pesticides on Amphibian Communities in a commercially utilized hill-landscape in the Western Ghats
• 2002: TN Pollution Control Board – Baseline survey of Biodiversity and Preparation of Action Plan for Conservation of the Pallikarnai Marsh in Chennai
• 2003: STRI/Centre for Tropical Forest Studies – post doctoral fellowship programme: Forest reserves as refugia for human impacted biodiversity: a case study of the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary
• 2003: IUCN – Regional Biodiversity Programme, Asia: Biodiversity Planning Specialist – Preparation of guidelines for Sub-national Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans
• 2002-2006: National Watershed Development Project for Rainfed Areas (NWPRA) – Kancheepuram district
• 2003: PhD Programme: Ecological Survey of Freshwater Catfishes in and around Chennai, Tamilnadu

The Organization

Scientific Staff
Director: Dr R J Ranjit Daniels
Joint Director: Dr Jayshree Vencatesan

Project/Research Assistants:

Mr G Das - Community organiser (National Watershed Development Project for Rainfed Areas, Kancheepuram)
Mr B Rajagopal – Doctoral Student (Salim Ali School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University)
Mr J Subramanian – MSc Student (Salim Ali School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University)

Accounts:

Mr Mayur Krishna Kumar, FCA (Chartered Accountant/Consultant)

CONTACT ADDRESS

Director,
No 5, 21st Street
Thillaiganganagar
Chennai 600 061
Tamilnadu
India
Email: careearth@usa.net
Phone: 91-044-22327862
Fax: 91-044-22331060