#07 The Thing About Nature Education with Vena Kapoor The Thing About Wildlife

Welcome back to the second of our two-part chat with Vena!

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:


The Montessori model of education, The concept of climate grief, retaining hope in conservation and the conservation optimism story, the silent-valley agitation and what exactly is iNaturalist?
People mentioned on the show: Suhel Quader, M D Madhusudan, Birute Galdikas, Diane Fossey
Wildlife: Mantids, potter wasps, tarantulas, fig-fig wasp associations