Wildlife Conservation India Project #51283

Protect India's Tigers And Promote Co-Existence

by Born Free Foundation

Protect India's Tigers And Promote Co-Existence

Project Report | Jun 17, 2022
June 2022: A Busy Three Months Protecting Tigers

By Victoria Lockwood | Project Leader

A tiger photographed in the wild (c) Yashvardhan

Thank you for choosing to support our work to protect India’s tigers and promote co-existence.

The new financial year brought with it new opportunities for our Satpuda Landscape Tiger Partnership (SLTP) colleagues to implement conservation initiatives in Central India, and share learnings from the field.

Yashvardhan Dalmia, Network Support Consultant for SLP reports directly from India about the latest developments in our efforts to protect tigers.

Embarking on new initiatives and continuing existing ones with renewed energy:

Fresh from the SLTP Annual Seminar in March 2022, where teams got the opportunity to present the work and share learnings, SLTP partners have continued their on-ground conservation initiatives from April through to June. Relaxation of COVID-19 regulations has allowed many projects to restart their community-based conservation work. This included medical camps, nature conservation awareness programs for schools, sustainable livelihood training, human-wildlife conflict mitigation programs and provision of assistance to forest staff. It’s great to see these initiatives in action again!

New social media pages and a newsletter launch

In order to regularly share stories, testimonials and updates from the field with our supporters and well-wishers, dedicated SLTP Instagram and Facebook pages have now been launched. This is really important in getting our message across to a global audience. A quarterly SLTP newsletter is also in the works, which will enhance awareness of our projects and celebrate some inspirational success stories. We can’t wait to get this up and running to share them with you too!

Conservation Hero Award Presented

The SLTP partners selected Dr. Gajanan D Muratkar for this year’s SLTP Conservation Hero Award for his invaluable grassland conservation efforts in the Central Indian landscape. This award is presented to grassroots-level conservationists as a mark of recognition for their invaluable conservation work in Central India. Congratulations to a tiger hero!

Exhibition for camera trap images captured by students

SLTP partner Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) organized an exhibition showcasing camera trap images captured by school students living in buffer and fringe areas of Tiger Reserves.

This exhibition was a result of BNHS’ conservation awareness programs which helps students to learn about new technologies, like camera traps, which are widely used in conservation to monitor individual animals, population figures and activity in the field. It was a big win for the team as such activities encourage students to get involved in conservation and learn more about their surrounding environment and wildlife, including tigers of course!

Thank you for your continued support for this vital conservation programme.

Human Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Awareness

Conservation Hero Award Winner in the field

Camera Trap Image Exhibition

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Feb 18, 2022
Feb 22: New role drives tiger protection forwards!

By Victoria Lockwood | Project Leader

Conservationist Yash will support field work

Thank you for choosing to support our work to protect India’s tigers and promote co-existence.

We are pleased to announce that, thanks to generous public support, we’ll be able to protect even more of India’s precious tigers, thanks to the appointment of a new Network Support Consultant who will help support the work of our partners in the field.

Yashvardhan Dalmia, known as Yash, who has five years’ conservation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experience in India, will work alongside the team at Satpuda Landscape Tiger Partnership (SLTP) to support the amazing work of the SLTP partners and help identify and share conservation success stories in the region. Not only will the role help increase the impact of our work across this vast tiger conservation landscape, it will enable even more local people to discover the vital importance of co-existence and tiger protection.

Born Free’s Head of Conservation, Dr Nikki Tagg, said: “The Satpuda Landscape Tiger Partnership has been active for many years, and all the partners are doing amazing work on all areas of tiger conservation in the Satpuda Landscape, Central India. We are so excited about this newly recruited Network Support Consultant who will be instrumental in maximising on the successes of each partner of the network. Yash will help to measure, collate and communicate all this excellent work and in doing so will drive the partnership forward. This will of course benefit the tigers and people of India.”

Yash added: “Tigers are a huge source of inspiration to me. They are a symbol of biodiversity conservation and have inspired people from across different age groups, cultures, and backgrounds to know more about the importance of wildlife and do their bit to protect it. Moreover, initiatives for conserving Tigers have the potential of indirectly leading to the conservation of several lesser-known but important wildlife species which share their habitats with Tigers. I am very excited to be a part of a team in which everyone shares the common goal of biodiversity conservation.”

Thank you for your continued support for this vital conservation programme.

Yashvardhan Dalmia

Wild tigers (c) Sanjay Karkare

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Oct 22, 2021
Oct 2021: Technology for monitoring and education

By Victoria Lockwood | Project Leader

Tiger Bhola (c) Satpuda Foundation

Thank you for choosing to support our work to protect India’s tigers and promote co-existence.

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges for field conservation projects this year, as countries around the world experienced lockdowns and travel restrictions. During recent months, the Satpuda Landscape Tiger Programme (SLTP) team has embraced new technology to ensure vital tiger monitoring can continue, and local education initiatives can thrive despite the challenges.

Landscape Monitoring

The Satpuda Foundation supports government policy-decision making affecting tigers by attending meetings, seminars, conferences, workshops and site visits. This year, many of these sessions have taken place online, utilising web-hosted platforms such as Zoom and Teams. The team’s attendance at these sessions is crucial for suggesting mitigation measures to avert development projects which would negatively impact wild tigers. In the field, camera traps have never been more important for remote monitoring, and new pictures have shown tigers using underpasses on major roads for the first time, with reduced tiger (and leopard) deaths in the area a really positive sign.

School Education Programme

To adapt to the challenges of national lockdown, the SLTP team set up a WhatsApp group and arranged online activities for students, continuing their important conservation outreach even under these difficult circumstances. Implemented by the Bombay Natural History Society, the SLTP team helped ten model ‘Green Schools’ develop their own conservation curriculum. Tiger information posters featuring relevant local reserves were presented in each school together with a lecture on conservation – inspiring the next generation to step up for tigers!

Thank you for your continued support for this vital conservation programme.

Satpuda Forest (c) BFF

Tiger sign (c) BFF

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