Their role in the Save our Tigers Campaign: Train well-vetted new individuals/NGOs that operate near critical tiger habitats in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

Commitment:

a) Train new individuals/NGOs that operate near critical tiger habitats in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh;

b) Gather intelligence on wildlife crime in these areas;

c) Check known/historical campsites of poaching gangs;

d) Check electricity sub-stations for trip records;

e) Check known poaching hotspots;

f) Carry out awareness in villages and promote WPSI’s secret information reward scheme.

Support to Save our Tigers Campaign: Reach out to front-line staff through field training programmes

Commitments:

a) Live demos on tracking and time-tested anti-poaching tactics;

b) Training in use and maintenance of weapons;

c) Improving the understanding and implementation of the Wildlife Protection Act (1972) and Criminal Procedure Code (1973) with interactive sessions and discussions on important case laws for more effective prosecution of wildlife offenders;

d) Provision of on-line legal support including professional legal advice for important cases and support to personnel when they face malicious legal proceedings as a consequence of discharging their protection duties;

e) Institute motivational Rewards for deserving staff;

f) Monitoring and sharing of actionable intelligence to prevent and detect wildlife offences.

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Support to Save our Tigers Campaign: Enhance tiger protection at the village level by improving the rate of detection of poaching attempts and incidents.

Commitments:

a) Convince the communities to start foot patrol around the immediate periphery of selected villages of the buffer zones of tiger reserves in the Satpuda landscape;

b) Village squads along with the forest staff will search for snare/traps and gather intelligence which will be shared with the tiger reserve authority;

c) Both, assist and train the forest staff in law enforcement and matters related to the court;

d) Felicitate the village patrolling squads, village Joint Forest Management / Eco-development Committees, forest staff and individuals based on their performance.

Support to Save our Tigers Campaign: Strategize to win over the threats and challenges that face tiger conservation in Sundarban.

Commitments:

a) Work closely with villagers to gather baseline information to combat the threats to the tiger and its mangrove habitat;

b) Help reduce socio-economic dependencies on the flora and fauna of Sundarban through awareness building activities;

c) Help set-up a village Tiger Response Team

i) to reduce human infiltration into the forest and

ii) to monitor straying of tigers in villages, illegal logging of mangroves and poaching of the prey base of the tiger.

Support to Save our Tigers Campaign: Help protecting tigers beyond the boundaries of the tiger reserve by mapping and reconnecting fragmented forests using viable corridors.

Commitments:

a) Field surveys in buffer zone and corridors;

b) Monitoring of corridors for disturbance;

c) Improving people’s participation in protection by changing their perception about tigers;

d) creating a community alarm system to alert the forest department in the event that a wild animal enters their village/field.