The Ecological Footprint Of Invasive Plants

Ankila Hiremath

Ankila Hiremath is an ecologist interested in questions related to conservation, restoration, and sustainable resource use, which lie at the interface of human and natural systems. A lot of her work over the past two decades has been in forests and woodland savannas of the Biligiri Rangan Hills in Karnataka, across the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu, and in the Banni grasslands of Kutch. Much of it has involved working with invasive alien species, especially Lantana camara and Prosopis juliflora. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment.