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Krithi Karanth Wins 2026 Explorer of Year, Aids Human-Wildlife Coexistence

5/6/2026

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Krithi Karanth was named the 2026 Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year for helping people coexist with dangerous wildlife.
She is CEO of the Bengaluru-based Centre for Wildlife Studies, which tracks half of Asia’s elephants and three-quarters of the world’s tigers.
Karanth says her Wild Seve platform has compensated roughly 17,000 families for crop, livestock or property loss and reduced retaliatory hunting.

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Krithi Karanth was named the 2026 Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year for helping people coexist with dangerous wildlife.
She is CEO of the Bengaluru-based Centre for Wildlife Studies, which tracks half of Asia’s elephants and three-quarters of the world’s tigers.
Karanth says her Wild Seve platform has compensated roughly 17,000 families for crop, livestock or property loss and reduced retaliatory hunting.