Krithi was only three years old when she spotted her first leopard and a tiger in the wild. By the age of 8, she was tagging along with her father, Dr. K. Ullas Karanth – one of India’s most renowned conservationists, to track tigers in the wild. Very early on Krithi decided to dedicate her life to working towards conserving and preserving the natural habitat in which these animals thrive.
Over the past 18 years, she’s worked on myriad projects including the impact of wildlife tourism, swept through the consequences of voluntary resettlement, researched land use change and understood the human-wildlife conflict.