Our forests can easily support 20,000 tigers. We gloat about having 4,000: Wildlife Biologist Ullas Karanth On India’s Animal Census Methods
Bad science leads to poor conservation outcomes and is a colossal waste of public funds, says Ullas Karanth Wildlife biologist Ullas Karanth pioneered the use of radiotelemetry to track tigers for population density studies in the country. The former US-based Wildlife Conservation Society’s India programme director believes India took the “wrong approach when conducting censuses…
