University, Pondicherry Andaman & Nicobar Islands State Wildlife Board, Port Blair Andaman & Nicobar Islands State Level Environmental Council, Port Blair. Andaman & Nicobar Islands 'Monitoring Committee for the Working Plan for the South Andaman Division'. Andaman & Nicobar Coastal Zone Management Authority. Andamans Science Association, Port Blair Society for the Andaman & Nicobar Ecology, Port Blair Auroville Index Seminum, Tamil Nadu Ashoka Innovators for the Public, New Delhi Kalpavriksh, Pune Coral Reef Monitoring Network—South East Asia, Sri Lanka Survival International, UK Trust for Environmental Education (TREE), Chennai Zoo Outreach Organisation, Coimbatore The Indian people’s Tribunal on Environment &Human Rights, Mumbai The Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi Smithsonian Institution, United States Marine Conservation Society, UK UNEP/Conservation for Migratory Species of Wild Animals, Germany Wildlife conservation activities Animal research and publication The bank acts as a large outdoor laboratory and provides opportunity to observe and document the reptiles' features, behavior, social interactions, and breeding biology at close range. Select enclosures are wired to record all the basic environmental parameters to facilitate studies on the biology of the reptiles at the bank. The bank has served as a regional source of status information for the World Conservation Monitoring Centre and has hosted numerous international meetings of the IUCN Specialist Groups dealing with reptiles. Since 1978, the centre has also hosted numerous local and international specialists. Research A total of 300 individuals of 20 species are kept as part of the centre's ongoing research program. In addition, the bank also conducts research on the biology of crocodiles, turtles and monitors lizards. Research in freshwater turtles and tortoises in India: Center is home to 28 species of freshwater turtles and tortoises some of which are extremely endangered. Research at center started in the early 1980s when Prof. Edward Moll of Eastern Illinois University accepted an Indo-American Fellowship for a year-long sabbatical and based his studies and surveys, conducted throughout India, at the CrocBank. The bank's research biologists have studied freshwater turtles in the Chambal River in Uttar Pradesh on a WWF-India grant. Publications The bank publishes a biannual herpetology journal called Hamadryad and is home to the largest library of herpetological literature in India. Research in the field of herpetology within the bank has resulted in over 600 scientific publications, books, reports, newspaper and magazine articles and films. Outreach and consulting The CrocBank serves as a consultant on reptile management and conservation issues