Author Description

About author: dr asad r rahmani is the director of the bombay natural history society since 1997 he joined bnhs in 1980 and work as principal scientist in various projects in 1991, he joined the wildlife sciences, aligarh muslim university, where he worked for six years in 1997, he joined bnhs as director he has written more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers in national and international journals, for books and numerous popular articles and book reviews he is the executive editor of the jbnhs, and editor of hornbill and mistnet he has been a phd guide to eight students, the principal investigator of many prestigious projects of the bnhs, including the important bird area (iba) programme of birdlife international and bnhs m zafar-ul islam worked with the bombay natural history society (bnhs_india) from 1993 to 2006 in several research projects, including important bird area (iba), biodiversity conservation priortization project, and anatidae atlas he also developed many conservati