Lecture: Coffee, Frogs, and Workers: The frontiers of conservation in southern India

Though some new areas for conservation are still being set aside in South Asia, the era of wildlife "enclosures" is ending. Can chaotic, semi-humanized environments be coaxed to protect rare, endemic species? When and under what conditions? Robbins' research seeks to answer these questions by investigating biodiversity, plantation export economics, and labor migration in the commodity production landscapes of coffee, rubber, and arecanut in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India.