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.

A report from the "Role of Youth & Students in Forest Conservation" workshop conducted in Bangalore by the Karnataka Forest Department in collaboration with NCBS.

A conference held at IISc focussed on elephants and explored various facets of their relationship with humans.