The Indian Ecological Society (IES) was established in 1974 at College of Agriculture, Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, under Prof. A.S. Atwal, an eminent ecologist, educationist and administrator, as the Founder President. During that era the main emphasis was on increasing production which leads to ‘Green Revolution’, however, its impact on ecology, natural resource, environment etc were not the prime issues. The Indian Ecological Society, one of the pioneering organizations of India, is engaged in advances in ecological sciences and environmental protection. The Society is managed by senior faculty members, assisted voluntarily by scientists from various fields, in addition to their regular assignments.
Aims and Objectives: The specific aims and objectives of the society as 1974 documented were
- To advance the cause of ecology in India;
- To encourage and promote ecological studies in the country and to integrate research in different fields of ecology;
- To cooperate with organizations with related aims and interests, and provide opportunities for communication among ecologists;
- To provide technical know-how for reducing environmental pollution through proper recycling of industrial and agricultural wastes.
- Moreover, there is change in definition and area of ecology during the last 5 decades. These objectives were amended time to time keeping in mind the priority areas in the field of ecology and environment. . In addition, it was also suggested to involve policy planners, not directly related, but having critical role in planning issues related to environment, pollution, climate etc
Dedicated web site: The IES has three dedicated web site with significant role.
- Main Ecological Society (https://indianecologicalsociety.com/) :This is operated under the President of Indian Ecological Society. This site is dedicate to the activities of Indian Ecological Society including the constituent of Woking group in varius area, media and outreach, membership, memorial lecture from expert in various fields , publication , conference proceeding etc. This site will soon include the profile of scientist in India and abroad with significant contribution to ecology
- Indian Journal Ecology (https://www.indianjecol.org-). This is operated under the guidance of Editor Indian J Ecology. This will provide assistance to the various organization for publication of conference paper as per guidelines of journal. Indian J Ecology is published regularly for last 52 years .
- Conference web site (https:// www .iesconf.in/) : This is operated under the guidance of General Secretary relvvant to various conference/ symposium and seminars. Indian Ecological society will collaborate with other organisation for conduct of seminars etc. Indian Ecological has organised nation and 4 international conferences
IES Chapters
The initiative to establish IES chapter was taken at the 2nd International Conference in 2016. Local Chapter can be formed in institute/state universities/ state . All member of executive council should by preferably life /annual member of IES. Each Chapter shall conduct its affairs in accordance with the constitution of Indian Ecological Society. Chapters can organize popular lectures, quiz programmes for students, training programmes, and conference/ workshops/panel discussions related to specific problems of the region. All these will require approval from EC of the society. State chapters of IES have been set-up in States of Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pressed and NE state of covering state of Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Assam, Sikkim, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh
Conferences
IES had organised 4 International and 12 National conferences for more intentional in area of ecology.
Fellow Indian Ecological Society
IES has honoured 38 scantiest for significant contribution in field of ecology and related area. In addition has nominated 15 scientist as fellow of Indian Ecological Society for significant role in ecology.
Membership
Members: More than 200 members joined as ‘Life members’ during the last five years and 675 joined as ‘Annual members’ in 2025. Further, to have more interaction in the related fields, the Society has initiated ‘State and Institution Chapters’.
Indian Journal of Ecology’
The Society attempts to fulfil the objectives by publishing the ‘Indian Journal of Ecology’ (ISSN-0304-5250since 1974), proceedings and other such publications, as may be considered desirable. The ‘Journal’ is considered ‘a premier journal’ reporting the research findings in the field of basic and applied ecology. The ‘Indian Journal of Ecology’ is an official publication of ‘Indian Ecological Society’ and is refereed and peer reviewed journal for the members of ‘Indian Ecological Society’. The ‘Journal’ is not paid but it is only for the members of IES. It is an open assessed ‘Journal’. Recently, the ‘Society’ has also considered the publication of research articles from different institutions‘ outside India’ and at present the contributions are from 21 countries. Due to the tremendous response and participation of number of institutions within/outside India, the issues per year were raised from 2 (2016) to 4 (2018) and to 6 (2021). The time frame for manuscript acceptance varies from 43 to 180 days, with average of 88 days. The acceptance percentage varied from 31.71 to 43.30 during the last five years Indian Ecological Society has published 51 volumes and 4446 research articles. In addition published 6 supplementary issue on various subjects.
KEY LINKS
Submission of paper : https://www.indianjecol.org/login
Status of paper : https://www.indianjecol.org/login
Author guidelines: https://www.indianjecol.org/page/submission-guidelines
Indian J Ecology: https://www.indianjecol.org/
All Volumes & Issues Indian J Ecology: https://www.indianjecol.org/volumes-issues
Latest issue: https://www.indianjecol.org/latest-issue
Become reviewer :https://www.indianjecol.org/reviewer/register
Abstracts of research papers: http://indianecologicalsociety.com/indian-ecology-journals/
Membership: http://indianecologicalsociety.com/memebership/
