Conservation technology deployed to protect wildlife in India’s Corbett Tiger Reserve has become a means of surveillance and intimidation against local women, according to research from the University of Cambridge. The study, published in the journal Environment and Planning F, exposes how camera traps and drones intended for tracking tigers and other wildlife are being misappropriated by local authorities and male villagers to monitor women without their consent. Dr. Trishant Simlai, who spent 14 months interviewing 270 residents near the reserve, found forest rangers deliberately using drones to frighten women away from the forest, despite their legal right to collect … Continue reading Wildlife Monitoring in India’s Corbett Reserve Sparks Privacy Abuse and Danger for Women