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
In 2018, WCT President Dr. Anish Andheria sent me to the Melghat Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, to witness the life and work of frontline forest staff, so that I could be their voice. With each of the forest guards… Read More
What is the value of a 100 year-old Banyan tree sustaining countless animals and providing oxygen, shade as well as aesthetic reprieve to people? What price would you assign an entire mangrove forest that buffers a city from bearing the… Read More
The Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) has been categorised as ‘Endangered’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s latest Red List Assessment of the species. The species’ status remains the same as it was in previous assessments, given… Read More