Parshuram Prabhu Bajantri, Parasappa Siddappa Jajappagol and Ramesh Badiger work at Castlerock and Kadra, within the Kali Tiger Reserve in Uttara Kannada. They're employed as forest guards but each one of them is an eco-warrior. Parasappa has identified and conserved more than 52 out of 80 orchid species in KTR. Parashuram’s inquisitiveness resulted in the discovery of a new species — Ghatiana Dvivarna — the 75th species of freshwater crab in the Western Ghats. Ramesh has been monitoring several species of frogs in the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats for the last decade.
