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High burden of acute malnutrition among children less than 5 years is a major public health problem in India. A \"Two-days National Consultation on Addressing Acute Malnutrition\" was organized to gather experiences and evidence from 13 states of India on prevention and management of acute malnutrition among children and documenting viewpoints from experts and government counterparts on the same. The consultation centered around five key themes of addressing acute malnutrition; 1) capacity building, 2) strengthening screening, 3) nutritional care of wasting, 4) tracking progress, and 5) scale-up. The paper highlights the experiences and key recommendations around the above key themes. It emerged that there is a need to further accelerate the efforts toward strengthening existing platforms and services to address acute malnutrition among children. Regular trainings of the frontline workers, increased convergence, regular monitoring, and continued service delivery during the pandemic should be undertaken for better outcomes.

Faecal samples have become an important non-invasive source of information in wildlife biology and ecological research. Despite regular use of faeces, there is no universal protocol available for faeces collection and storage to answer various questions in wildlife biology. In this study we collected 1408 faeces from ten different species using a dry sampling approach, and achieved 77.49% and 75.25% success rate in mitochondrial and nuclear marker amplifications respectively. We suggest a universal framework to use the same samples to answer different questions. This protocol provides an easy, quick and cheap option to collect non-invasive samples from species living in different environmental conditions to answer multidisciplinary questions in wildlife biology.

Faecal samples have become important non-invasive source of information in wildlife biology and ecological research. Despite regular use of faeces, there is no universal protocol available for faeces collection and storage to answer various questions in wildlife biology. We collected 1408 faeces from ten different species using a dry sampling approach, and achieved 94.87% and 86.02% success rate in mitochondrial and nuclear marker amplifications. We also suggest a universal framework to use the same samples for different use. This protocol provides an easy, quick and cheap option to collect non-invasive samples from species living at different environmental conditions to answer multidisciplinary questions in wildlife biology.