9 Indian conservationists who helped to save wildlife
Dr MK Ranjitsinh Jhala is a wildlife and nature conservationist from India. He is notable for pioneering the scientific use of camera traps that help to study the population density of large wild mammals in India.
He played a crucial role in bringing cheetah back to India.
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Saroj Raj Choudhury was a wildlife conservationist, writer and the first Forest Conservator under the Government of Odisha. He was also the first field director of Similipal Project Tiger.
He adopted a tiger cub and raised it successfully in captivity. He was known for the pugmark technique he employed for tiger census.
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Edward James Corbett was a British hunter, turned conservationist, author and naturalist. He tracked and shot a large number of man-eating leopards and tigers. Corbett stood up to protect India's wildlife and advocated in creating a national reserve for the endangered Bengal tiger.
In 1957, the park was renamed Jim Corbett National Park in his honour.
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