October 2024

MESH Symposium Speaker Ishika Ramakrishna and the Multispecies Ethnography of Endangered Gibbons in North-Eastern India Featured in The Guardian

MESH Symposium Speaker Ishika Ramakrishna and the Multispecies Ethnography of Endangered Gibbons in North-Eastern India Featured in The Guardian

Ishika Ramkrishna is a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Wildlife Studies, working on studying the interactions between human-nonhuman primates. Recently she presented her research during the 2024 MESH Symposium on Multispecies Convivialtity.

Alongside the villagers in Barekuri, Assam, who have lived closely with endangered hoolock gibbons for generations, Ramakrishna was recently featured in an article and short film by the British Media Outlet The Guardian.

Researcher Ishika Ramakrishna
Researcher Ishika Ramakrishna


You can read the full article titled „Guardians of the gibbons: inside the Indian village where humans and hoolocks live side by side“ here.

In addition, a new Guardian documentary is centered around the villagers of Barekuri and their fight to protect the endangered gibbon species. When researcher Ishika Ramakrishna arrives to study human-gibbon interactions, she joins forces with the villagers to tackle the gibbons‘ urgent population decline, endangered by habitat loss, deforestation and industrial catastrophe. You can watch the full fim below:



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