#06 The Thing about Spiders with Vena Kapoor The Thing About Wildlife

Vena Kapoor works with the Education and Public Engagement Programme at Nature Conservation Foundation in Bengaluru. She is interested in ecology, nature education research and outreach, looking for and documenting spiders and other 6 and 8 legged creatures. 

Twitter: @venadavenu





Popular Writing:


Spiders: the weavers and stalkers among us
Nature Underfoot: Wild Flora and Fauna on City Pavements and Waysides
Life on the Vertical: Exploring Nature on City Walls
Vena's 6 favourite species of spiders from the Western Ghats
Off to see spiders! - a children's book

Journal Articles:


Restoring Rainforest Fragments: Survival of mixed-native species seedlings under contrasting site conditions
An assessment of spider sampling methods in tropical rainforest fragments of the Anamalai Hills
Effects of rainforest fragmentation and shade-coffee plantations on spider communities

Shownotes:


Institutions: Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) and their rainforest restoration project, Bird Count India, Cafe Oikos, MPhil in Conservation Leadership at Cambridge-UK, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) 
People: Harini Nagendra, Seema Mundoli and Renee Borges
Wildlife: Jatropha (plant), Aphid (insect), Lynx spider (spider), Indian Beech or Pongamia (tree)
GISS in bird-watching parlance is what can only be described as the "vibe" of a species of bird