Help rescue wild animals and birds in India

Greeting to you from Wildlife Trust of India,

Hope you are doing well!

This email comprises an update for our project ‘Help Rescue Wild Animals and Birds in India’. Along the updates, we send to you our heartfelt gratitude for your generosity and for your trust in the work we do to protect our country’s wild animal population. It is through such acts of kindness that we are able to implement our conservation initiatives and work towards our vision of a secure natural heritage of India.

Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in the Western Ghats, India, located in Kollam district of Kerala and comes under the control of the Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve. The sanctuary is named after a tree endemic to the region – Chengurinji (Gluta travancorica), locally known as ‘Shenkuruny’. The Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary hosts an abundant plant diversity – about 1,257 species of flowering plants of which 309 species are endemic to Western Ghats. Birds from 267 species including migratory, endemic and endangered species have been reported here. Tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forests cover a major area of the sanctuary. The sactuary is also home to the lion-tailed macaque, an extremely rare and a highly endangered species.

Owing to the close proximity of the sanctuary and human settlements, encounters between wildlife and humans are commonplace. Wild animals frequently venture into the human-dominated regions and require immediate interventions to be safely relocated back into the Protected Area.

The Special Investigation and Protection Unit (SIP) of the Southern Circle, headed by the Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF), is extremely active in this regard. The unit has rescued several wild animals from human habitations including cobras, Russell's vipers, Asian palm civets, barn owls, kites and etc.

To facilitate such rescues, the ACF approached WTI seeking equipment support including sleeping bags, headlamps, ketch poles, rope ladders, barn owl nest boxes, jackets, raincoats and tents.

With your kind support, we were able to provide the rescue unit with the necessary equipment as they continue their good work. Thank you so much for funding the initiative.

Warm regards

Team WTI