Complex sentence: In the 1970s he supported Dillon Ripley at the Smithsonian Institution for a project involving radio-collaring tigers in India that met with considerable resistance, with Kailash Sankhala and Madhaviah Krishnan suggesting that Indians could conduct such studies on their own.
Split into simpler sentences: In the 1970s, he supported Dillon Ripley and the Smithsonian Institution for a project that proposed to radio-collar and study tigers in India. The project met with considerable resistance, with Kailash Sankhala and Madhaviah Krishnan suggesting that Indians could conduct such studies on their own.