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Thirty Years of Field Work: How GGI Helped Pull the Sri Lanka Leopard Back from the Brink

In the late 1990s, human-wildlife conflict in the Horton Plains buffer zone was escalating at an alarming rate. Farmers were retaliating. Leopards were disappearing. Ravi Corea flew back from the United States with a simple conviction: that local communities could become the most powerful wildlife advocates in the world — if given the tools and economic alternatives to do so.