Bibhab Kumar Talukdar

Bibhab Kumar Talukdar is an Indian conservation biologist. He is the founder of Aaranyak, a leading wildlife non-governmental organization based in Guwahati, India. It is a Scientific, Industrial Research and frontline environmental organization in India.[2]

Bibhab Kumar Talukdar
Born1968
Dhubri, Assam
NationalityIndian
EducationGauhati University
OccupationConservation Biologist
Years active1989–present
Known forAaranyak and Asian Rhino Conservation
Awards
  • IUCN Species Survival Commission Chair’s Citation Award, 2008[1]

He is a member of the Asian Rhino Specialist Group of the IUCN and a member of the National Board of Wildlife under the government of India. He worked in the monitoring of Asian Rhinos and their habitats. Working in South and South-East Asia, he studied the threats posed to Asian Rhinos due to the impact of climate change.[3]

Early life

Bibhab Kumar Talukdar appeared for his Bachelor of Science examinations in 1989. During this time, he founded Aaranyak in Assam as a nature club encouraging and engaging youths in birding. Assam was amid political unrest during the 1980s and early 1990s. Aaranyak came as a piece of positive news during this period. It is now Northeast India's biggest non-government biodiversity conservation & research organisation.[4]

Life description

Bibhab Kumar Talukdar is currently the secretary general and CEO of Aaranyak. The Aaranyak team consists of wildlife biologists, researchers and conservation workers and has its headquarters in Guwahati, India.

He was a member of the Standing Committee of the National Board of Wildlife, Govt. of India from July 2007 until May 2010.[5]  From 2010 to 2012, he was a member of the Project Elephant Steering Committee, Govt. of India and the committee for the formulation of the National Wildlife Action Plan for 2017–2031.[6]

He is a member of the Assam State Biodiversity Board.[7]

Work in Asian Rhino conservation

Bibhab Kumar Talukdar was appointed as the Chair of the Asian Rhino Specialist Group in 2007 for his work towards the conservation of Asian Rhinos.[8]

He also contributed to the conservation and management of critically endangered Javan and Sumatran Rhinos along with Indonesian conservation agencies.[9]

To curb the occurrences of rhino poaching and for awareness of its conservation, Bibhab Kumar Talukdar initiated legal orientation workshops for forest officials starting in 1998. He coordinated legal orientation workshops for Assam police, Sasashtra Seema Bal (SSB) and Border Security forces (BSF) in his state.[10] 

Dr Bibhab Kumar Talukdar with a rescued Indian Rhino Calf

Awards

Publications

He has published over 60 scientific papers and co-authored two papers published in the journal of Science. He contributed to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in the Eastern Himalayas between 2002 and 2004.[12]

Selected works
  1. Talukdar B.K. in Schipper et al. 2008. Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge. Science 322: 225-230 [13]
  2. Talukdar, B.K. in Hoffmann et al. 2010. The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates. Science 330:1503-1509.[14]
  3. Talukdar, B and Sinha, S 2013. Challenges and opportunities of transboundary rhino conservation in India and Nepal. Pachyderm 54(54):45-51 [15]
  4. Lahkar, B., Talukdar, B. and Sarma, P. 2011. Invasive species in grassland habitat: An ecological threat to the greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis). Pachyderm 49(1) [16]
  5. Havmøller, R.G., Junaidi Payne, Widodo Ramond, Susie Ellis, K. Yoganand, BarneyLong, Eric Dinerstein, Christy Williams, Rudi H. Putra, Jamal Gawi, and Bibhab Kumar Talukdar 2015. Will current conservation responses save the Critically Endangered Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis? Oryx (Oryx, Page 1 of 5 © 2015 Fauna & Flora International doi:10.1017/S0030605315000472)[17]
  6. Emslie, R.H.; Milliken, T.; Talukdar, B.; Burgess, G.; Adcock, K.; Balfour, D.; Knight, M.H., 2019. African and Asian rhinoceroses - status, conservation and trade. A report from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (IUCN/SSC) African and Asian Rhino Specialist Groups and TRAFFIC to the CITES Secretariat pursuant to Resolution Conf. 9.14 (Rev. CoP17). Report to CITES 17th meeting (Colombo, June 2019), CoP 18 Doc. annexe annex 3: 1-38 [18]

References
  1. "Sumatran rhino likely to go extinct unless action is taken urgently, warns IUCN". IUCN. 21 September 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  2. "G Plus Vol 4 issue 12 by G Plus". issuu.com. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  3. "World Rhino Day 2019: IUCN Asian Rhino Specialist Group Chair Bibhab Kumar Talukdar appeals for a strong community movement for protection of greater one-horned rhino". nezine.com. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  4. "Police will have to protect rhinos and tigers from poachers: Experts". Financialexpress. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  5. "Member Profile | Assam State Biodiversity Board | Government Of Assam, India". asbb.assam.gov.in. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  6. "National Wildlife Action Plan WII" (PDF). National Wildlife Action Plan.
  7. "Member Profile | Assam State Biodiversity Board | Government Of Assam, India". asbb.assam.gov.in. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  8. "Bibhab Talukdar to head rhino specialist group". assamtribune.com. 15 September 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  9. "Assam conservationist appointed to Indonesian Rhino Task Force". The Times of India. 3 May 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  10. "Assam Cops Sensitised On Wildlife Crimes". The Times of India. 19 February 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  11. "Bibhab Kumar Talukdar | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker". www.ashoka.org. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  12. Talukdar, Bibhab. "Millennium assessment" (PDF). Millennium Assessment: 24.
  13. Schipper, Jan; Chanson, Janice S.; Chiozza, Federica; Cox, Neil A.; Hoffmann, Michael; Katariya, Vineet; Lamoreux, John; Rodrigues, Ana S. L.; Stuart, Simon N.; Temple, Helen J.; Baillie, Jonathan; Boitani, Luigi; Lacher, Thomas E.; Mittermeier, Russell A.; Smith, Andrew T. (10 October 2008). "The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge". Science. 322 (5899): 225–230. Bibcode:2008Sci...322..225S. doi:10.1126/science.1165115. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 18845749. S2CID 45416687.
  14. Hoffmann, Michael; Hilton-Taylor, Craig; Angulo, Ariadne; Böhm, Monika; Brooks, Thomas M.; Butchart, Stuart H. M.; Carpenter, Kent E.; Chanson, Janice; Collen, Ben; Cox, Neil A.; Darwall, William R. T.; Dulvy, Nicholas K.; Harrison, Lucy R.; Katariya, Vineet; Pollock, Caroline M. (10 December 2010). "The impact of conservation on the status of the world's vertebrates". Science. 330 (6010): 1503–1509. Bibcode:2010Sci...330.1503H. doi:10.1126/science.1194442. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 20978281. S2CID 32375022.
  15. "Challenges and opportunities of transboundary rhino conservation in India and Nepal".
  16. "Invasive species in grassland habitat, an ecological threat to the greater one horned rhinoceros unicornis".
  17. Havmøller, Rasmus Gren; Payne, Junaidi; Ramono, Widodo; Ellis, Susie; Yoganand, K.; Long, Barney; Dinerstein, Eric; Williams, A. Christy; Putra, Rudi H.; Gawi, Jamal; Talukdar, Bibhab Kumar; Burgess, Neil (3 August 2015). "Will current conservation responses save the Critically Endangered Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis ?". Oryx. 50 (2): 355–359. doi:10.1017/S0030605315000472. ISSN 0030-6053. S2CID 208526639.
  18. "IUCN SSC report".
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