Our Communities

ATREE has set up Community-based Conservation Centres, or CCCs, to produce research pertinent to and usable by local communities and to provide a space for local communities to engage with us. The CCCs support:

• Long-term ecological monitoring
• Research by doctoral students and interns
• Collaboration with communities on conservation and sustainable livelihoods
• Interactions with local governance institutions
• Conservation education programmes
• Activities of other research organizations

ATREE has five CCCs in the Western Ghats stretch, ranging in character from peri-urban to Protected Area forest to Ramsar wetland.

Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve, Karnataka
Agasthyamalai (Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve), Tamil Nadu
Vembanad Community Environmental Resource Centre, Kerala
Male Mahadeshwara Hills, Karnataka
Kanakapura, Karnataka