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Project No. Project Tenure
Conservation - Mr Deepak Apte
225 ONGC - Mangroves Restoration and Conservation Unit- Phase II 3 years
164 Satpura Landscape Tiger Project - Education Mobile Unit and BNHS Tiger Cell 1 year
169 Financial Assistance for research under the AICOPTAX Scheme: Taxonomy Capacity Building Project on Mollusca 1 year
221 Oil Spill 
15 months
188 Whitely Lakshadweep
Reference & Collection - Mr. Varad Giri
113 Caecilians of the north Western Ghats, India: An assessment of the speices and their conservation status
184 New Species of Indian Caecilian (Gymnophiona)- Distribution Natural History, and Petential monitoring
185 Towards the conservation of caecilian amphibians of the northern Western Ghats - establishing the systematic foundation (Caecilian Project-MOEF) 
1 year
220 Tata Chemical Digitisation
Research - Dr S Balachandran
121 An assessment of the impact of Hydrological Intervention on the Bird Population of Chilika 3 years
178 Elucidating international migration routes of priority waterbirds species in India & the Central Asian flyway to evaluate their potential to transmit highly pathogenic avian influenza during 2008-09, through capture, avian influenza virus sampling 6 months
201 Elucidating international migration routes of priority waterbirds species in India & the Central Asian flyway to evaluate their potential to transmit highly pathogenic avian influenza during 2009-2010
6 months
208 Wild Birds and avian Influenza Project – Bangladesh 
2 months
211 Manipur Training Programme (Imphal)
212 Migratory Movements of Birds at Point calimere 
3 years
213 Heronries of Southern India 
3 years
226 Satellite Tracking Project- Manipur
227 Satellite Tracking of Bar-headed Greese & selected Ducks between Pong-Dam, Himachal Pradesh & their breeding grounds
Research - Mr Sujit Narwade
128 ENVIS Center on "Avian Ecology"  
Yearly
Research - Dr Ranjit Manakadan
199 An assessment of population, distribution and conservation issues of the Asian Elephant Elephas maximus in the Eastern Ghats areas of Karnataka State, India  
24 months
Research - Mr Rahul Chavan
204 Securing a long term future for Jerdon's Cursor (Rhinoptilus bitroquatus) and its habitat
24 months
143 Large-Scale habitat Mapping and Local Conservation initiatives for Jerdon's Courser
Research - Mr Mohammed Dilawar
190 Investigating causes of House Sparrow Passer domesticus Population decline in Urban Sub-Habitats of India 
3 years
Research - Dr Asad Rahmani
140 Civil Society Networks for Site Conservation in the North Bank Landscape, India 
3 years
189 Climate change impacts on the conservation of Birds in Asia. Birdlife 4.95 &.99 Mac Arthur 8.16 & 4.32 
2 years
196 Important Bird Area Mapping in India
1 year
202 Support for Bombay Natural History Society's bird conservation programme 2008-13 - IBA Advocacy
1 year
203 Support for Bombay Natural History Society's bird conservation programme 2008-13 - IBA RSPB 2008-2013
1 year
151 Migratory Movements of Birds of up 
3 years
Research - Dr. Vibhu Prakash
126 Carcass Sampling and NSAID prevalence monitoring (Diclofenac Project)
2 years
163 Vulture Breeding Programme in India
5 years
179 Vultures:in-Situ Conser, Col. Mon. & Training
1 year
200 Monitoring and use of Veterinary Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID) and painkillers and their distribution around select vulture site. 
1.5 years
207 Vulture Conservation Work in Biodiversity hot spot area - Western Ghats. 2 years
210 Road Transects,Monitoring & Research
2 years
214 Carcass Sampling & Laboratory Analysis
1 year
215 Vulture Construction ZSL
216 Vulture Safe Zones in India
1 year
217 Darwin Vulture Project
223 Diclofenac Monitoring in Livestock & Vultures
2 years
228 Trans-boundary solutions to the Asian Vulture Crisis 2 years