Conservation Science
Roopa Krithivas
Program Associate
Areas of Expertise: Conservation and land rights, South Asia
Roopa joined WWF in February 2011. She works with the social science team to examine patterns, trends, causes, and implications of protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD). Roopa is particularly interested in the intersection of conservation and land rights, particularly in South Asia. She has worked as a field assistant in Madagascar and a human-wolf conflict researcher in India. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Chicago, and a Master’s in Environmental Science from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. Roopa is fluent in Tamil and Hindi and is attempting to learn Spanish.
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