As part of Big Cat Week on Nat Geo Wild, several National Geographic big cat researchers, photographers, and conservationists (including me) are joining together for a live video chat via Google+ Hangout Wednesday, December 3rd at 1 p.m. EST (6 p.m. UTC). This is your chance to get your questions about these beautiful, fascinating, and highly endangered animals answered by those of us...
Krithi Karanth is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and in 2011 received the Society’s 10,000th grant for research and exploration. She is a conservation biologist working to save India’s increasingly fragile ecosystems and threatened animals. Her research utilizes many forms of data, including camera traps, to monitor and conserve a wide variety of Subcontinental creatures. Originally home to...
Krithi Karanth is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and in 2011 received the Society’s 10,000th grant for research and exploration. She is a conservation biologist working to save India’s increasingly fragile ecosystems and threatened animals. Her research utilizes many forms of data, including camera traps, to monitor and conserve a wide variety of Subcontinental creatures. By Krithi...
By Krithi K. Karanth and Arjun Srivathsa With close to 50 species of wild carnivores, India is a haven for elusive families of cats, dogs, hyaenas, bears, otters, civets and mongooses. The Wildlife Conservation Society-India Program has been camera-trapping critters in India for more than 20 years. This program originally started with pioneering camera trap...
By Krithi K. Karanth and Arjun Srivathsa With close to 50 species of wild carnivores, India is a haven for elusive families of cats, dogs, hyaenas, bears, otters, civets and mongooses. The Wildlife Conservation Society-India Program has been camera-trapping critters in India for more than 20 years. This program originally started with pioneering camera trap...
Everyone has a place that draws them back over and over again. Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is that place for me. I came here in 2002 for my master’s research project to assess impacts of villages on the park and voluntary resettlement of people. I have since worked in several wild places across India but I...
Everyone has a place that draws them back over and over again. Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is that place for me. I came here in 2002 for my master’s research project to assess impacts of villages on the park and voluntary resettlement of people. I have since worked in several wild places across India but I...
One of the biggest joys in field work is chancing upon interesting sights, people, and places in the middle of nowhere. The Eastern Ghats are full of such places. The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous mountain range along eastern coast of India. These drier Ghats are often neglected by naturalists, scientists, and conservationists in favor...
One of the biggest joys in field work is chancing upon interesting sights, people, and places in the middle of nowhere. The Eastern Ghats are full of such places. The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous mountain range along eastern coast of India. These drier Ghats are often neglected by naturalists, scientists, and conservationists in favor...
Google+ Hangout: Global Snapshot of the World’s Plants, Animals For 125 years, National Geographic has continued to share its never-ending curiosity about the world and all that is in it. Now we’re handing over the role of photographer and explorer to you. The Great Nature Project invites people of every age and from every continent...
Every week, embark with host Boyd Matson on an exploration of the latest discoveries and interviews with some of the most fascinating people on the planet, on National Geographic Weekend. Please check listings near you to find the best way to listen to National Geographic Weekend, or click the links after the descriptions below! Episode: 1328 – Air Date:...