Tiger Consultations
Locations of past tiger consultations: Delhi (3), Mumbai (1), Kolkata (1), Chennai (1)
Tiger consultation, Mumbai
Tiger consultation , Delhi
Rationale for investing in consultations
- Need for conducting national consultations to mitigate conservation issues
- Need for dialogue between forest departments, scientists and conservationists to device conservation strategies
- Submit conservation recommendations to MoEF for rapid action
- Encourage the print and television media to highlight real conservation issues on a regular basis
- Come up with a policy for tourism in wilderness areas
- Popularise conservation issues among the masses
- Educate and inform the student and teacher community
Facilitating NGO output
| TRACT, Tadoba |
| WPSI, Delhi |
| Corbett Foundation, Ramnagar |
| Trust for Environment Education (TREE), Chennai |
| Katti Trust, Pune |
| Tiger Watch, Sawai Madhopur |
| Satpuda Foundation, Nagpur |
| Nature Conservation Society, Amravati |
| BSPCA, Mumbai |
| Sanskara Development Trust, Delhi |
| Conservation Action Trust, Mumbai |
| Film-makers |
| Journalists |
| Retired forest department officials |
| Honorary Wildlife Warden, Corbett |
| Wildwatchers, Kolkata |
Rationale
- Local NGOs/individuals are well verse with issues at the grass-root level
- Greater and more-effective interventions possible by aligning with life goals of NGOs/individuals
- Funding is often a limiting factor in remote, wildlife areas
- Funds help in capacity building of these organisations/individuals
- Helps expand their horizon
- Further WCT’s conservation goals
