Bengaluru-based startup Katidhan, founded by S R Ayan, is working towards reducing human-animal conflict. Instead of causing any harm, they use technology to keep them away from the fields.
This operation was a model for how to deal with similar situations in the future, and brings with it the renewed possibility of peaceful human-animal interaction.
In their efforts to address the growing issue of man-leopard conflict in Maharashtra, Wildlife SOS and the Forest Department are micro-chipping leopards caught in conflict situations to monitor their movement patterns.
When Avital (Tali) Datskovsky came to Rajasthan as part of the William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India to work on a project conserving local knowledge and traditions at the verge of extinction, little did she know that a tiger conservation project in a nearby forest had a crucial role to play.