Mother Earth
This is Dr. Krithi Karanth with Nina Rao and Sunil Somalwar in NYC last week.
Nina met her father Dr. Ullas Karanth in 1998 at a conference for tiger and wildlife conservationists in Delhi. We have been friends and I have supported his research and conservation work ever since. Over these years his daughter Dr. Krithi Karanth has not only become a highly respected conservation biologist but also expanded conservation from pure scienctific research and working with the government, to the realm where humans interact with wildlife - highlighting and remembering and acknowledging the interconnectedness of Nature with humans.
With your help through SavingWildTigers.org we were able to help her most recently in providing basic medical necessities to hundreds of Primary Health Care centers in remote rural areas close to wildlife area during COVID. On a regular basis, her projects include helping people who live on borders of wildlife who suffer losses from predation from wild animals, educating the children who live around the parks cultivating their appreciation for wildlife and wild areas through illustrated books and presentations, bringing awareness via workshops to people about how to cope with zoonotic diseases and preventions, and avoiding dangerous human-wildlife conflict and co-existence and first-aid. Her work with Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS India) is expanding each year and the ultimate goal to expand the existing boundaries of the wildlife areas under protection. All these arms of conservation embrace and strengthen the interconnectedness of our world with real feet-on-ground effort.
Kritihi is the recipient of Eisenhower Fellowship for Women’s Leadership Program 2020, as well as one the Indian government’s 35 Women Achievers in 2021, and she and her team’s work has been recognized in the Washington Post, Sunday Guardian, TIME magazine and numerous Indian newspapers.
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