“Veterinarians are irrevocable generalists,” reads a line in the book Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology. While most people associate a veterinarian only with treatment and welfare of individual animals, their role extends to maintaining the health of wildlife populations and ecosystems … Read More
We walk up the cobbled stone steps, Dr. Anish Andheria and I, in a forest situated right in the middle of Mumbai’s hyper-urbanised, noisy suburbs. We soak in the beauty and significance of this small preserve better known as the… Read More
WCT’s FLOWIDER App Integrates Crucial Flood Data for Riverine Species Conservation and Flood Risk Management River flooding keeps species, ecosystems, and societies living on floodplains alive and healthy by annually replenishing and recharging them with life-giving nutrients, sediments, and water.… Read More
Every five years, India’s Finance Commission (FC), a constitutional body instituted by the President, determines the criteria for the devolution of the tax revenue by the Centre to the States. Of the total demarcated fund pool, a percentage of the … Read More
Tarun Nair is a conservation biologist with an affinity for crocodilians and rivers. Leading the Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (WCT’s) Makara Programme, he works along North-Central Indian riverscapes that harbour the last remaining populations of the Critically Endangered gharial, a fish-eating … Read More
We are pleased to announce that the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT) has won the prestigious UNDP Mahatma Award for Biodiversity 2023. WCT bagged this coveted award because of the success of its flagship ‘Heater of Hope’ project, which involves the… Read More
Where a vehicle doesn’t reach, Girish Punjabi walks with the forest staff installing camera traps and recording signs and tracks of tigers, leopards, dhole, and sloth bears. He and his team covered nearly 850 km. on foot in 2019-20 alone… Read More
Equipping the Enforcers and Interpreters of Law: The journey of a wildlife crime, from its undertaking to its adjudication in the court of law, is a complex affair fraught with umpteen challenges for law enforcement agencies in their struggle to… Read More
Bony and dishevelled, Kanta Kamde stands barefoot outside her house. I stand with her in silence, arms wrapped around my chest, gaze lowered. It feels like a condolence visit. Then she speaks, “We had run out of firewood. The cooking… Read More
She is there. Right there, inside a neatly dug-out borrow under those shapely boulders deep inside the Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh. Previously acquired camera trap footage confirms that she has a pup along with her.… Read More