PA Update new issue - Vol XXXI, No. 5, October 2025 (No. 177)

[Pankaj Sekhsaria]

Dear All,
Attached pls find the new issue of the Protected Area Update of October
2025. It is being published late but we hope to catch up and return to
publishing on schedule in the next couple of issues.

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Many thanks
Pankaj Sekhsaria
Editor, PA Update
C/o Kalpavriksh
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Pankaj Sekhsaria, PhD
Associate Professor, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas
(C-TARA), IIT-Bombay.
- PI, Environment and Ecology Research Group (EERG), C-TARA
- PI, The Charkha Studio, C-TARA
Member, Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group

> New from the EERG: Great Nicobar Island - A digital Hub. Access here:
https://greatnicobar.org/

> From The Charkha Studio: A new film:
'The Spinning Experience: Hand Spinning as Pedagogy, Experiential
Learning, and Physical Output' (17 minutes)
Link: https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/253/527

Citation: Sekhsaria, Pankaj. 2025. The Spinning Experience: Hand
Spinning as Pedagogy, Experiential Learning, and Physical Output. KULA:
Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 8(2).
https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.253