Their book 'Jeeva Jaala', co-authored with K. Puttaswamy, won the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award 1999 for science writing.
Krupakar and Senani, along with the then forest officer D Yathish Kumar, have been instrumental in the formation and functioning of Namma Sangha, a conservation effort on the fringes of Bandipur National Park in south India.
The society has been very successful in reducing the pressure of removal of fuelwood from the forest, by introducing cooking gas in the villages around the park.
"The Pack" was produced and directed in the dense forests of Nilgiris for over a decade and unfolds the lifestyle of dhole.
[2] Krupakar and Senani both were kidnapped by the Indian bandit Veerappan in October 1997 mistaking as an important government officials, and after holding them captive for two weeks, he released them.