ICAR Researchers developed a detailed map showing the areas in Pune most affected by abiotic crop stresses, such as extreme temperatures, drought, poor soil quality, and poor or excessive rains.

Gubbi Labs

22 May 2025

Despite all our technological advances, we depend entirely on a healthy and vibrant ecosystem for our water, food, shelter, and energy. Respecting, protecting, and repairing our biological wealth is essential to ensure a habitable ecosystem.

This International Day for Biological Diversity, the theme, Harmony with nature and sustainable development, connects protecting biodiversity with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), showing that both agendas must advance together as they support one another.

20 Mar 2025

We at Gubbi Labs have always celebrated the humble yet remarkable sparrow, which is also the inspiration behind our logo. Our name is derived from the town of the same name located in Tumakuru district of Karnataka. This town derives its name from the house sparrow and is home to Gubbi Labs.

Bengaluru
11 Nov 2019

In a recent study, Mr Kamath, now a researcher at Gubbi Labs, Bengaluru, along with Dr Seshadri KS, a researcher at The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology, Tamil Nadu, has reported the feeding behaviour of Brown mongoose. Though accidental, the study adds knowledge about some previously unknown behavioural aspects of these elusive mongooses. It is published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa.

9 Feb 2017

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“Where are house sparrows these days? They have just become extinct!”, is a common rhetoric we hear these days in the cities. Yet, it is impossible to scientifically assert that they are dwindling in numbers, since there has not been any systematic observation or data gathered about them.

The case of the ‘vanishing’ sparrows in cities like Bengaluru throws light on an important issue associated with biodiversity – the lack of data. Old-timers across the city are able to recall a time when sparrows were ubiquitous and also observe them diminish by the day. To add to this, there has been significant drop in the tree cover and the number of insects and birds in our neighbourhood. But, to objectively answer any questions like the change in the numbers of any species, the total number of species present and the effects of a vanishing species on an ecosystem, rigorous observations, documentation and research is a necessity. In the lack of these, it is simply impossible to infer or conclude that there has been a change, let alone the decline or disappearance of certain species. This drives us to reconsider the strategies of understanding biodiversity.