She checked more than 3,000 frogs through rain, leeches and dark nights in the Western Ghats: how researcher Keerthi Krutha is tracking a deadly fungus so India can be warned of the threat before it spreads
Image courtesy: Sanctuary Nature Foundation When Keerthi Krutha’s mother asked her to return home for festivals, the wildlife researcher often had a different answer. “Amma, I am already home. The forest is my home,” she told her. For Krutha, the forests of the Western Ghats became a workplace where she spent nights searching for frogs, […]
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