Back in the 1998, after my high school days, I have come across a book by E. O. Wilson, Diversity of Life,- “Every country has three forms of wealth: material, cultural and biological. The first two we understand well, because they are the substance of our everyday lives. The essence of the biodiversity problem is that biological wealth is taken much less seriously. . . . The fauna and flora are also part of a country’s heritage, the produce of millions of years of evolution centred on that time and place, and hence as much a reason for national concern as the particularities of language and culture”. This idea drives me to research for understanding and exploring the diversity of faunal life around us. As a part of my post graduation curriculum, I worked on urban ecology of butterflies, which inspired me to look on conservation issues related to these species which lack enough public attention.
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