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| Runacres, A. | |
| The Panna revival: achievement and failure in Indian Tiger Conservation | |
| 2016 Conference Proceeding | |
My research is on Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, Central India. It focuses on the recent success of the tiger reintroduction and rewilding program in the reserve, which has managed the population of tigers in Panna to grow from zero individuals in February 2009 to thirty-two individuals currently. I hope to find a group of people who are simultaneously involved in some way in the management of the reserve and locally resident in the villages around the reserve to explore the impact of this reintroduction program. The research hopes to draw from anthropologies of achievement, wherein the ethnographer attempts to understand both how achievement is measured with regard to a particular activity or within a particular paradigm and how that resonates at different social scales and within different social areas. It is clear that Panna's reintroduction program is an achievement of sorts from a conservation science perspective. However, it is yet unclear what sort of reaction the success garners at a local level and whether it is recognised in the same way or at all. As literature in conservation science and management continue to emphasise the importance of local impact and local involvement and actively seek to develop frameworks which monitor and evaluate such objectives, it is worth considering what anthropologies of achievement have to offer discussions of what counts as success in conservation and vice versa. This is what I hope to achieve with my research in Panna. |
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