Café Oikos: Ecology & conservation straight from the horse’s mouth
![Rucha Karkarey talking about her research on how coral reef fish cope with climate change in the Lakshadweep archipelago during a Cafe Oikos session](https://indiabioscience.org/imager/articles/124171/Cafe-Oikos-Featured-Option-2_4b32b63c5c28c858e051e9d1a2a717a1.jpg)
Café Oikos, a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit initiative, is the brainchild of engineer-turned-ecologists Anisha Jayadevan and Shishir Rao. It is a free and open public event regularly held at Bengaluru bookstores or cafés wherein people from all walks of life can come to learn about ecology and conservation research directly from active scientists. In this article, Anisha writes about how Café Oikos came to be, and what it aims to achieve.
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