Saving man and beast in India’s Jungle Raj
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 [...]
Dr. Krithi Karanth interviewed on Scientific American’s ’60-Second Science’ Podcast
Dr. Krithi Karanth and the CWS program Wild Seve were featured on the Scientific American '60-Second Science' Podcast. Dr. Karanth talked about her experiences of [...]
Compensation for wildlife conflict in the age of mobiles
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 [...]
Compensation process for wildlife conflict eased via mobiles
"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 [...]
New cellphone tech to pave way for abating man-animal conflicts
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 [...]
Farmers get compensation for wildlife conflict thanks to a mobile
After a farmer reports an incident using the toll-free number, motorcycle-borne trained responders, located strategically in the affected areas, rush and assist families in filing [...]
Mobile helping farmers get compensation for wildlife conflict
Farmers living near two tiger reserves of Karnataka are getting help in filing compensation claims with the help of a new mobile technology based platform, [...]
WildSeve: Addressing Human-Wildlife Conflict In India
In 2015, Dr. Krithi Karanth launched the ‘WildSeve’ Project in 284 villages surrounding Bandipura and Nagarahole National Parks, two of India’s premier tiger reserves. This [...]
Tiger Got Your Goat? Here’s Who to Call
Dawn breaks to reveal the elephants’ damage: footprints the size of large woks puddled with rain, a wire fence mangled beyond repair, healthy tomato plants [...]
Mobile telephony comes to aid of farmers trapped in human-wildlife conflict
“Our research revealed that 57% of households in the area reported crop loss to authorities, 64% reported livestock loss, and 77% reported human injury or [...]
