{"id":81117,"date":"2025-01-16T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/?p=81117"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T09:34:23","slug":"invasive-species-and-habitat-loss-national-seminar-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/invasive-species-and-habitat-loss-national-seminar-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive Species and Habitat Loss: National Seminar Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-81118 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0007-e1737020030519-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1016\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0007-e1737020030519-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250116-WA0007-e1737020030519-768x342.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A two-day national seminar titled &#8220;Invasives and Habitat Loss: A Threat to the Biodiversity of Kerala&#8221; commenced at Mahatma Gandhi University. Vice Chancellor Dr. C.T. Aravindakumar inaugurated the event. The seminar focuses on critical concerns affecting Kerala&#8217;s biodiversity, including habitat loss, invasive species, biodiversity conservation, and eco-restoration.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. K. Jayachandran, Director of the Graduate School at MGU; Dr. Shaji C.P., a distinguished fish taxonomist and conservation biologist; Dr. M.S. Jisha, Director of the National Institute of Plant Science Technology; and Dr. Jomi Agustin addressed the gathering during the inaugural session.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the first day, Dr. Muhammed Jafer Palot, Scientist at the Zoological Survey of India, and Dr. Shaji C.P. presented their views on the subject.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 17, Pramod P.P., Chief Conservator of Forests and Field Director of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, and Dr. T.V. Sajeev, Chief Scientist at the Kerala Forest Research Institute, will address the seminar.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The seminar is organised by the National Institute of Plant Science Technology at the university in collaboration with the Kerala State Biodiversity Board.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-day national seminar titled &#8220;Invasives and Habitat Loss: A Threat to the Biodiversity of Kerala&#8221; commenced at Mahatma Gandhi University. Vice Chancellor Dr. C.T. Aravindakumar inaugurated the event. The seminar focuses on critical concerns affecting Kerala&#8217;s biodiversity, including habitat loss, invasive species, biodiversity conservation, and eco-restoration. \u00a0 Dr. K. Jayachandran, Director of the Graduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81119,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81117\/revisions\/81119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}