Bio: Dincy Mariyam joined as a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS) under the guidance of Dr. Krithi K Karanth. She was trained as a biologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune and received a BS-MS dual degree. After graduation, she worked as a research assistant at CWS for two years. She worked on various projects including understanding trends of nature-based tourism in Indian protected areas, examining patterns of human-wildlife conflict around Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, and CWS’ conservation program WildSeve.
Work interests: Dincy’s research interests include nature-based tourism, human-wildlife interactions, protected area management and governance. She communicates her work through journal and popular articles. She has so far published five papers and twelve popular articles. She enjoys traveling and exploring new areas, as well as photographing them for personal and academic interests.
Current research: Dincy’s doctoral work, which builds on her work on nature-based tourism in India, explores opportunities to expand conservation efforts beyond protected areas through wildlife-friendly land-use and nature-based tourism. Towards this, she examined the preferences and perceptions of two tourism stakeholders — local communities and tourists. She hopes that her research can inform better tourism models that benefit local communities and enhance visitor experience.
Publications list:
Mariyam D, Vijayakrishnan S and Karanth KK (in review) Influence of charismatic species and conservation engagement on the nature-viewing preferences of wildlife tourists
Mariyam D, Puri M, Harihar A and Karanth KK (2021) Benefits Beyond Borders: Assessing Landowner Willingness-to-Accept Incentives for Conservation Outside Protected Areas. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9:663043. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.663043
Ghosh-Harihar M, An R, Athreya R, Borthakur U, Chanchani P, Chetry D, Datta A, Harihar, A, Karanth KK, Mariyam D … & Price, TD (2019) Protected areas and biodiversity conservation in India. Biological Conservation. 237, 114-124. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.06.024
Karanth KK, Jain S, & Mariyam D (2017) 14. Emerging Trends in Wildlife and Tiger Tourism in India, In Nature tourism, Edited by Chen JS & Prebensen NK. 171-183. Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315659640
Baig UI, Bhadbhade BJ, Mariyam D, & Watve MG (2014) Protein aggregation in E. coli: short term and long term effects of nutrient density. PloS One. 9(9):e107445.
