The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Dr. Krithi K. Karanth, Human/Wildlife Conflict Resolution Expert
A Scientist Spotlight Interview
Dr. Krithi K. Karanth is one of the world’s greatest experts on conservation in India and human-wildlife conflict. She currently serves as the Chief Conservation Scientist and Director at the Centre for Wildlife Studies (based in Bengaluru and focused on the Western Ghats) and as a professor at Duke University. She has published over 100 scientific and popular articles based on her 20+ years of field research into human dimensions of wildlife conservation in India and across Asia. Dr. Karanth also became the National Geographic Society’s 10,000th grantee in 2011 and was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2012.
In the interview below, this writer’s questions and comments are in bold, Dr. Karanth’s words are in regular text, and extra clarification (links, etc) added after the interview are in bold italics or footnotes.
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