Orus Ilyas

I am working as a Professor in the Department of Wildlife Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. I have served four terms as the Asia coordinator of the Deer Specialist Group of SSC/IUCN. I have been involved in field research on mammals, especially the ungulates community in India since 1995. I worked in the high-altitude Himalayas for more than 20 years and still working. After my PhD on Ungulates of Himalayas I got a project under "Young Scientists under the Fast Track Program of DST", for the conservation of Musk deer in Uttarakhand Himalayas. I have worked in various projects ranging from community participation to species conservation and ecology, funded by many organizations such as. WSI, WWF-India, CAPART, DANIDA, UGC, and UPFD-TERI projects as Conservation Corp Volunteer/ principal investigator, or project leader. She has published four books, and out of that one has been published by most prestigious publisher, Rutledge-Tailor and Francis, and more than 50 scientific papers in National and International Peer-reviewed high-impact factor journals. I have contributed more than 20 chapters to reputedly edited books. She has received many Extra Mural grants from UGC, SERB, and CSIR to work on ungulates of the high-altitude Himalayas and the Pench and Panna Tiger reserves in central India. In 2019, I was successfully secured Rs. 20 Lakhs from the corporate sector under their Corporate Social Responsibility for the Dept of Wildlife Sciences to organize the 1st International Conservation Conference-2019 from 21st -23rd October. She has visited more than 15 courtiers for different academic programs and chaired many technical sessions abroad such as New Zealand. She has delivered many popular Public Talks in different organizations, such as ISER Mohali also Invited by Wellcome Trust DBT-India Alliance to deliver talks at St. Stephens College, DU. She is the reviewer of many reputed journals, such as Mammalia, Journal of Zoology, Mammalian Biology, Mammalia, Threatened Taxa, Scientific report, Oryx, etc. Recently on 29th March 2023, she has been awarded "recognition for her excellent academic achievements in STEM disciplines by the APJ Abdul Kalam Center for STEM Education & Research and the International Society of Muslim Women in Science (ISMWS)". At present, I am working on the Ecology and conservation of Tahr, and the Project is funded by SERB-Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India under its Core Research Grant. My Research interests include Mammalian Ecology, biodiversity conservation, conservation genetics, population ecology, herbivore ecology, Wildlife policy and legislation, quantitative ecology, and human-animal conflict.
Phone: +919412501043
Address: Dept of Wildlife Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, ALigarh