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Mridutpal Sinharay

@mridutpalsinharay.bsky.social
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Ph.D. researcher @ University of Cologne | Exploring the entanglements of humans, animals, and environments through conservation and historical perspectives | DAAD Fellow

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Wisse van Engelen @wissevanengelen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Published in Environment and Planning E, with Sandra Calkins, @estherturnhout.bsky.social, Michael Bollig and Andreas Weber: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mridutpal Sinharay @mridutpalsinharay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🐗 New paper: What does "wildness" mean in a rewilded pygmy hog? After 12 months in Assam, I explore: rewilded hogs are liminal, meanings of wildness, taming as joint politics, contaminated freedom, animal cultures, and how conservation learns (or fails to). 🔗 Link below doi.org/10.1080/1388...
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Stakeholder Perspectives on Wildness in Pygmy Hog Reintroduction
The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania), the world’s smallest and one of the rarest wild pigs, is the focus of a reintroduction effort in Northeast India, where a captive-breeding programme launched in 19...
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Emilie Köhler @e-koehler.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
My research on elephant conservation in the KAZA TFCA was featured by @mongabay.com in an article that argues for corridors, not culls, as a long term solution for Southern Africa‘s growing elephant population 🐘 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/corr...
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Corridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant population
Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 kilometers, or 7,500 miles — three times the distance between New York and Los ...
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