Chetan Rao

Profile: I joined Dakshin in December 2013 as a project assistant on the long term monitoring project of olive ridley sea turtles in Ganjam, Odisha. I subsequently moved on to work on another marine reptile- sea snakes, one of the speciose but less understood animal. I currently supervise the effect of fishing practices on the ecology of sea snakes in Malvan, Maharashtra.
Projects:
Publications:
Serpents of the Sea. Hornbill. August 2018
A quick guide to the sea snakes of Sindudhurg
‘How Life Came a Full Circle for the snakes that call the Ocean their Home’. The Wire. October 2017
Rao, C. “The Big Squeeze” Saevus. July. 2014. 27-29. Print (Popular Article)
‘The Ridley’s Riddle’. Nature Kaleidoscope- Bulletin on the Wildlife Institute of India 2014.
Rao, C., Talukdar, G and Choudhury, B.C. 2011. Factors influencing movement pattern, habitat use and distribution of king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)- a multi scale approach. Thesis submitted to the Wildlife Institute of India.
Rao, C. “Human-wildlife conflict in India”. Economic times. July 2010. Print (Popular article)