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Dr. Chaitanya Krishna Y. was awarded PhD from Manipal University in 2017. His doctoral dissertation was titled, ‘Resolving conflict between conservation and livelihoods – crop damage by blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) in semi-arid India’. At CWS, he was mentored by Dr. Ajith Kumar. Dr. Krishna is a Senior Fellow at Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy, and Learning.