INTEGRATED HABITAT CONSERVATION AND ECO-DEVELOPMENT IN VIDARBHA TIGER LANDSCAPE Primary Response Teams in 60 Conflict affected villages
Creating local leadership and participation in 60 villages in Brahmapuri Forest Division, in the corridor of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, to ensure a first line of defence in this area to address human - large carnivore conflict. (Click here to read more..) Supported by International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN)
INTEGRATED HABITAT CONSERVATION AND ECO-DEVELOPMENT IN VIDARBHA TIGER LANDSCAPE Sustainable Livelihood in 5 Conflict affected villages
Creating capacity in local women and youth to ensure livelihood alternatives that are sustainable and to reduce their pressure on the forest. This initiative is being done in 5 villages in Brahmapuri Forest Division, in the corridor of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (Click here to read more...) Supported by International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN)
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP FOR CONFLICT MITIGATION Education and Local Leadership for Mitigating Human - Tiger conflict in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve and its peripheral forests in Central India
Based on our study of human – wildlife conflict, the local communities are the most crucial stakeholder in its mitigation. We have been working in 92 villages situated in the forested Buffer of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve and its corridors since 2013, to create awareness leaders within the communities; imparting skills and knowledge to resolve the challenges that this co-existence throws at them and to minimise attacks. * Primary Response Teams *Early Warning systems *First line of Defence (Click here to read more..) Supported by U.S Fish and Wildlife Service
TIGER AMBASSADORS - SATPUDA LANDSCAPE TIGER PARTNERSHIP Addressing Human - Wildlife Conflict through people's participation
A program to create local leadership ‘Tiger Ambassadors’ within communities of 75 villages situated in fringes and buffer area of Nawegaon Nagzhira Tiger Reserve, Gondia, to minimise the negative interface between large carnivores on people; Creating local capacity in each village to secure themselves from conflict, and to share this awareness among their communities; encouraging peoples participation in conservation. (Click here to read more..) Supported by Saving Wild Tigers and Born Free Foundation
TIGER CONSERVATION - SATPUDA LANDSCAPE TIGER PARTNERSHIP Protection to wildlife and its forest habitat
Addressing threats to tigers and its habitat in the Nawegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve landscape; patrols for minimising threats, monitoring presence of wildlife in peripheral human dominated forests, securing water sources, studying the livestock losses by carnivore predation, Camera trapping to monitor presence of large carnivores near villages, rescuing animals, reptiles and birds and much more. (Click here to read more..) Supported by Born Free Foundation
HUMAN WILDLIFE CONFLICT MITIGATION Solutions for Conflict in Human Dominated Areas
Understanding the conflict between humans and wild animals (Leopards and Sloth bear) in areas with high human densities, finding solutions for mitigation, and long term management of this co-habitation. TRACT also works towards creating awareness in the urban communities to reduce conflict and to understand their role in securing themselves. (Click here to read more..) Supported by the Maharashtra State Forest Department
COMMUNITY FOR TIGERS Support to the Local Community for their participation in Conservation
Providing scholarship for 20 students from the buffer villages of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, to facilitate their ITI courses, thereby creating employment capacity and reducing their dependence on the forest. Working towards improving the quality of the local communities by converging government schemes to ensure an end to open defecation, clean drinking water and employment opportunities. (Click here to read more..) Supported by the Serenity Trust
JUNGLES PATROLS Training local youth for protection of Wildlife and Habitat
Field patrols for protection of the wildlife and the habitat in parts of the buffer of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. TRACT teams patrol areas on foot, fight fires, address local issues and identify threats to the wildlife. (Click here to read more..)
Supported by Born Free Foundation and Wildlife Conservation Trust
CONSOLIDATION OF HABITAT Voluntary Rehabilitation of Villages
TRACT has worked towards Consolidation of habitat by facilitating the ongoing Government supported Voluntary Rehabilitation of Villages from the core of the Tiger Reserves. A win-win solution that ensures employment opportunities, basic amenities and more to the local communities, and simultaneously ensuring that the core forest becomes inviolate for the wildlife. (Click here to read more..) Supported by Wildlife Conservation Trust
TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS Support to the Community Primary Response Teams in Tadoba Buffer
Supporting the trained community leaders of the Village primary response teams with field equipment and gear; motivate them and facilitate their participation in addressing the challenges of co-existence with wild animals in the buffer of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. (Click here to read more..) Supported by Serenity Trust, The Rotary Club, Germany and individual donors