We are delighted to share our new picture books on nature conservation for children! Illustration: WCT and Pratham Books At the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), we have long aspired to bring wildlife conservation stories and concepts to children from all … Read More
One of WCT’s flagship community interventions in Chandrapur District, Maharashtra, has been the Water Heater Project that is focused on not just reducing firewood consumption, but also forest degradation, the drudgery of women and their exposure to harmful smoke, and … Read More
A Data Visualisation Feature A new dot appears on the screen every hour. It is a Global Positioning System (GPS) fix, a real-time update on a large carnivore that has been rescued from a potentially dangerous situation in a human … Read More
Achieving co-existence between freshwater biodiversity and river-dependent fisheries is becoming increasingly challenging in the Gangetic plains. The negative ecological effects of dams and other impoundments, water pollution, habitat destruction from sand mining, impact of water transport, riverfront development, and many … Read More
The Eurasian Otter in Peninsular India “The otter (Lutra vulgaris), of which genus I have never been able to distinguish more than one species in the Central Provinces… is found locally in all the main rivers and larger jungle streams. … Read More
A recent groundbreaking assessment has unveiled a sobering reality: over one-third (nearly 38 percent) of the world’s tree species are on the brink of extinction. This alarming figure comes from the first-ever Global Tree Assessment (led by Botanic Gardens Conservation … Read More
In November of 2023, very exciting news came to light. A male tiger from Maharashtra, that had been captured on Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (WCT) camera traps in Brahmapuri in 2021, had travelled nearly 2,000 km. and had been spotted in … Read More
We are thrilled to share some incredible news! Our recent camera trap footage captured a heartwarming moment: one of the rescued and rehabilitated female Indian pangolins, with her little pup riding on her tail! Video: WCT/ MPFD A journey to … Read More
A tale of human-canine collaboration to save India’s elusive mammal The Indian pangolin, a shy and nocturnal creature, is facing an urgent crisis. Poaching and illegal trafficking have pushed this elusive mammal to the brink. To combat this threat, a … Read More
You won’t know when. You won’t know where. You must keep your peripheral vision peeled and neck rotating 180 degrees perpetually, for a split-second sighting along the river as it breaks the surface for air. That is the only way … Read More
Mercy “She asks me to kill the spider.Instead, I get the mostpeaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin.I catch the spider, put it outsideand allow it to walk away. If I am ever caught in … Read More
When we think of charismatic mammals of the central Indian forests, we tend to think of tigers, leopards, dholes, barasinghas, and gaurs. With the recent return of elephants to central India, some would add these pachyderm to the list as … Read More
There was a time when millions of vultures soared across the skies of the Indian subcontinent. This was true right uptil the late 1980s, when the estimated population of vultures was around 4 crore. Then, in the 1990s, the vultures … Read More
Ganges river dolphins are never quiet. They are effectively blind and do not need eyesight to live in the super-murky, sediment-rich waters of their riverine habitat. But this means that they must echolocate almost constantly to map their environment and … Read More
We drive through the dusty road that promises to take us to my much-awaited destination ensconced in the Siwalik Hills in Himachal Pradesh. The hills grow bigger as we get closer, and soon we are in Suketi village, driving past … Read More