Agumbe Rainforest Research Station (ARRS) is a permanent field station of the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, located on a 4.5 acre site, approximately 1.5 km from Agumbe village, in Shimoga District of Karnataka. ARRS was founded by renowned herpetologist Romulus Whitaker in 2005, with the financial support of the late Doris Norden Chattopadhyaya, the Whitley Fund for Nature, and the Rolex Award for Enterprise, with the long term mission to study and conserve rainforests through applied ecological research, outreach programs and partnerships.
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We conduct In-house workshops on various topics such as Rainforest Ecology, Statistics, Freshwater Ecology, Field Botany, Natural History Camps etc..
Snake Rescue, Ecology, Sustainable Living, and other aspects are often taught as a daylong (or more duration) workshop in schools, colleges, NGOs etc..
Regular workshops, presentations, training camps and awareness camps are held with the Forest Departments, Gram Panchayats, Primary Health..
