How much water should flow through a river to sustain animals on land? Both the water cycle and wildlife are intricately intertwined while both facing unparalleled antropogenic pressures. I use satellite remote sensing and field data to study these water-animal relationships. This is applied to a case in the Nepalese Terai Arc Landscape, home to Asian elephant, Greater One-horned Rhinoceros and also mesoherbivores that form the prey-base of Royal Bengal Tiger. Results will aid in making water-animal relationships explicit as empirical evidence for the required amount of water that should flow through a river to sustain life on land. This can be seen as extension of the ‘environmental flow need’ concept and the project runs in parallel to a NWA funded “Save the tiger, save the grasslands, save the water” research project (https://savethetiger.nl/).

Since 2023 I contribute(d) to education for BSc. and MSc. students that follow courses regarding sustainable development with courses such as Ecohydrology, Natural Processes, Global Climate Change, Mathematics & Systems Analysis, Regional Integration Project, Duurzaamheid als Wereldbeeld, Consultancy Project, Drinking Water & Sanitation, Statistics.