Archive for the "Krithi Karanth" Category

  • Bhadra Relief Package Declared the Best

    Alladi Jayasri - India's National Newspaper The Hindu covers Krithi K. Karanth's work in India CRYING FOR A BETTER DEAL: A good relocation package for forest dwellers to save the tigers from the man-animal conflicts.

  • Making resettlement work: The case of India’s Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary.

    Krithi K. Karanth (2007), Biological Conservation, Issue 139, III-IV The Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is located in India's Western Ghats mountain range. The sanctuary contains some of India's most celebrated and endangered wildlife, including the Bengal Tiger and Asian Elephant. Other mammals include the Guar, Sambar, Slender Loris, Chital, and Leopard. In addition to containing some of India's richest biodiversity (recently India has applied for the Western Ghats to gain World Heritage status), the sanctuary was at one time home to thirteen villages that increasingly affected, and were affected by, their protected surroundings. In 2002 eleven of these thirteen

  • Successful relocation of people from Indian reserve

    Successful relocation of villagers from wildlife sanctuary Jeremy Hance, special to mongabay.com September 29, 2007 The Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is located in India's Western Ghats mountain range. The sanctuary contains some of India's most celebrated and endangered wildlife, including the Bengal Tiger and Asian Elephant. Other mammals include the Guar, Sambar, Slender Loris, Chital, and Leopard. The sanctuary is also rich in bird species (nearly 300 have been recorded) and butterflies. As well, the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is one of twenty-seven reserves that are apart of Project Tiger: a program