With rapidly declining populations, identifying the current distribution and extinction probabilities of large mammals is integral to future conservation efforts. a team of scientists led by Dr. Krithi Karanth from Centre for Wildlife Studies conducted research on 25 large mammals found in India.
Wildlife tourism is a powerful sector that can play an important role in boosting local economies and creating livelihood opportunities for local communities. Scientists from the Centre for Wildlife Studies and Wildlife Conservation Society - India published a commentary on the assessment of the Court's verdict on wildlife tourism.
In the last three years, Bandipore National Park and Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka have recorded 10,000 instances of human-animal conflict, shows data from the [...]
Late on July 8, on the fringes of Bandipur National Park, a farmer in Shivapura village heard noises from his livestock shed. Moments later, he [...]
WCS’s Wild Seve program, which helps farmers living around India’s Bandipur and Nagarahole National Parks recoup losses of crops or livestock from tigers, leopards, elephants, [...]
With growing human populations overlapping with forests that are rich wildlife habitats, increasing interactions between people and animals are inevitable. Rural communities of India are [...]
Shrinking wildlife spaces are highlighting the fragility of the complex relationship between people and wildlife in rural and urban India. People-wildlife interactions lead to crop [...]
Bangalore-based Eminent Conservation Scientist Dr Krithi Karanth has come up with ‘WildSeve’ project in 284 villages surrounding Bandipur and Nagarahole National Parks, two of country’s [...]
"WildSeve arose from seven years of my research on understanding the complexities of human-wildlife interactions across India and finding that compensation has a role to [...]
As the country grapples with rising incidents of man animal conflicts, a novel cell-phone based technology — “WildSeve” is set to show the way for [...]
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