Human – Wildlife Conflict Mitigation

India’s total forest cover now stands at 697,898 sq km or 21.23% of the country’s area. That’s well short of the official goal to get cover up to 30% of land area (in February, the government has approved  £4.46m project to increase forest area). As both the human and wildlife populations increase, the level of human-animal conflict is also increasing.

In India,  several million people rely on agricultural crops and livestock for income.  A roaming tiger, leopard, bear, elephant, wild dogs, or other wild animals can pose a threat to their livelihood not to mention human life. Most common human-wildlife conflicts are injury, death, damage to crops, property, livestock predation etc.,

The immediate reaction of people would be to kill the animal involved.  Our aim would be to reduce the negative aspects of wildlife on human activities through education and awareness.

We shall conduct workshops, awareness training’s to sensitize and educate the people to deal with human wildlife conflict, like building, trenches, fences, setting up alarm systems and other mechanisms to the people that is living within and close by the forest areas and instill a sense of ownership and responsibility to protect the wildlife resources.