Abi Tamim Vanak is a National Environmental Science Fellow working on landscape mapping and conservation prioritisation of Indian semiarid savanna grasslands. He is a member of the Savanna Grasslands Working Group at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, and is part of a long-term multi-institutional research effort, “Research and Monitoring in the Banni LandscapE (RAMBLE)” in the Banni grasslands of Kutch, Gujarat.