By Lis Speight | DSWF Marketing and Communications Manager
The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) funds vital anti-poaching and illegal wildlife trade investigations across Assam’s borders to help protect one of the most important tiger populations in the world. Your support of our work is helping on many levels in the fight to secure a safe future for wild tigers.
Since 1950, the world’s population has trebled and mass urbanisation has encroached on even the world’s most wild places. With escalating human populations and shrinking animal habitats, human-wildlife conflicts are becoming more and more frequent.
Over the last year, DSWF has continued its commitment to reducing human wildlife conflict, by funding innovative and tech-based solutions to mitigate dangerous interactions for both people and wildlife, such as tigers.
In India, DSWF has helped fund a new wildlife mitigation mobile phone app, to reduce human wildlife conflict. The Wild Watch app was successfully tested earlier this year and is now being implemented.
DSWF was also proud to launch an initial study into road traffic accidents involving large scale wildlife deaths, to better inform and prevent these unnecessary incidences.
With your support DSWF has also funded two day-long workshops for district police on the illegal wildlife trade. This should help officers handle wildlife crime in a more positive way and highlight the need for more concerted efforts to check wildlife crime, such as tiger poaching and the trade in illegal tiger parts.
DSWF has also funded the training of a new anti-poaching dog through our project partners Aaranyak. The dog squad was set up in 2011 and was the first in Assam. The highly trained dogs pick up scent at the scene of a wildlife crime and follow it back to the criminals involved, providing valuable support to the Wildlife Crime and Monitoring Programme and demonstrating a zero- tolerance approach to poachers and would-be poachers.
All of these projects are helping to save India’s precious wildlife, including the majestic tiger and their work is only possible because of the generosity of supporters like you. Thank you!
Look out for our future updates on how YOUR donations are helping to save this beautiful yet endangered species.
Click here to find out more about how we are protecting wild tigers.
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