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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 [...]

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 [...]