Ph.D. researcher @ University of Cologne | Exploring the entanglements of humans, animals, and environments through conservation and historical perspectives | DAAD Fellow
Mridutpal Sinharay
🐗 New paper: What does "wildness" mean in a rewilded pygmy hog?
After 12 months in Assam, I explore: rewilded hogs are liminal, meanings of wildness, taming as joint politics, contaminated freedom, animal cultures, and how conservation learns (or fails to).
🔗 Link below
doi.org/10.1080/1388...
My research on elephant conservation in the KAZA TFCA was featured by @mongabay.com in an article that argues for corridors, not culls, as a long term solution for Southern Africa‘s growing elephant population 🐘
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/corr...
The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania), the world’s smallest and one of the rarest wild pigs, is the focus of a reintroduction effort in Northeast India, where a captive-breeding programme launched in 19...
Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 kilometers, or 7,500 miles — three times the distance between New York and Los ...
