User:Dr. Raju Kasambe/Asad Rahmani

New article name goes hereDr. Asad R. Rahmani''' new article content ... Asad R. Rahmani is the Former Director of the Bombay Natural History Society. He joined BNHS in 1980 and worked as Principal Scientist in various projects. In 1991, he joined the Department of Wildlife Science, Aligarh Muslim University, where he worked for six years. In 1997, he rejoined BNHS as Director and retired in July 2015. He has written more than 170 peer-reviewed research papers in national and international scientific journals, 20 books, and numerous popular articles and book reviews. His principal research interest has been conservation of Great Indian Bustards (Ardeotis nigriceps), storks and cranes, and many other threatened species of birds, as well as grassland habitats. He was the Executive Editor of Journal of the BNHS, and Editor of "Hornbill" and "Mistnet", the quarterly newsletter of Indian Bird Conservation Network (IBCN). He has been a Ph.D. guide to 10 students, and Principal Investigator of many prestigious projects of the BNHS, including the Important Bird Areas (IBA) Programme of BirdLife International, RSPB, and BNHS.

Books authored by Him Dr. Rahmani has written more than 20 books about the birds and wildlife of India. The most famous among his publications include the