WCT vehicles power forest departments across the country. We provide a range of vehicles to frontline forest staff to improve their mobility. 
WCT equips Anti-poaching Camps and trains frontline forest staff in wildlife law enforcement.
We support and partner with grassroots NGOs to tackle region-specific conservation issues in a timely manner.
Our specially-designed conflict mitigation vehicles help frontline forest staff respond to emergencies in a timely and effective manner.
From shoes and water bottles to rucksacks, WCT ensures that our foot soldiers have the personal equipment they need.
Our flagship training in wildlife law enforcement helps frontline forest staff tackle wildlife crime.
WCT’s workshops on chemical restraint and wild animal rescue save human and animal lives in conflict-prone areas.
WCT conducts dedicated workshops for the Special Tiger Protection Force on patrolling and law enforcement.
WCT partnered with national media to bring tiger conservation to the forefront of India’s consciousness.
WCT’s awards motivate officials battling against all odds to protect India’s wildlife.
WCT ensures that resettled communities have access to necessary amenities.
WCT acts as a support system for frontline forest staff, providing ex-gratia compensation and medical insurance.
WCT initiates dialogue on conservation issues and helps design effective policies.
WCT vehicles power forest departments across the country. We provide a range of vehicles to
frontline forest staff to improve their mobility.
WCT equips Anti-poaching Camps and trains frontline forest staff in wildlife law enforcement.
We support and partner with grassroots NGOs to tackle region-specific conservation issues in a
timely manner.
Our specially-designed conflict mitigation vehicles help frontline forest staff respond to
emergencies in a timely and effective manner.
From shoes and water bottles to rucksacks, WCT ensures that our foot soldiers have the personal
equipment they need.
Our flagship training in wildlife law enforcement helps frontline forest staff tackle wildlife crime.
WCT’s workshops on chemical restraint and wild animal rescue save human and animal
lives in conflict-prone areas.
WCT conducts dedicated workshops for the Special Tiger Protection Force on patrolling and law
enforcement.
WCT partnered with national media to bring tiger conservation to the forefront of India’s
consciousness.
WCT’s awards motivate officials battling against all odds to protect India’s wildlife.
WCT ensures that resettled communities have access to necessary amenities.
WCT acts as a support system for frontline forest staff, providing ex-gratia compensation and medical insurance.
WCT initiates dialogue on conservation issues and helps design effective policies.
WCT works to improve the mobility of field staff, donating bicycles, 125cc motorcycles, 4WD vehicles, 22-seater troop carriers, high-speed motorboats, water tankers and tractors to forest departments across the country. Trucks are donated to parks that have constituted a Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) to allow 20 guards to travel as a unit.
WCT provides tankers so that officials can fill waterholes strewn across a difficult terrain more efficiently for wildlife during the summer.
WCT has a multi-dimensional approach to tackling poaching. We work to improve the living conditions of staff living in remote Anti-poaching Camps (APCs) in forests by installing Solar Integrated Systems and providing potable water filtration systems, first-aid kits, furniture, wireless sets and other items.
Simultaneously, we train frontline forest staff in wildlife crime prevention, effective patrolling strategies and much more.
In 2012, WCT provided essential funding support to grassroots organisations working to halt the Amur Falcon massacre in Nagaland. The campaign worked at various levels, engaging with the Chief Minister and local authorities to pass a regulation to protect the falcons and simultaneously with the local community to sensitise them on the importance of the birds. A teaching manual about the ecology of the Amur Falcon was designed and distributed. In 2013, to our delight, not a single bird was hunted!
WCT began funding Lifeline for Nature, a local NGO working to restore the Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Rajasthan, in 2012. An UNESCO World Heritage site, the wetland supports an incredible amount of biodiversity – over 365 bird, 375 plant and 50 fish species are found here in addition to several species of mammals, reptiles and invertebrates. An invasive weed Prosopis juliflora had spread rapidly through the wetland, endangering the nesting sites of several migratory birds. With WCT support, over 150 hectares of the wetland were restored.
WCT supports local NGOs and individuals working to rehabilitate injured wild animals or those rescued from the illegal wildlife trade. In 2014, WCT supported the Thane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (TSPCA), Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA), Wildlife S.O.S and the Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare (RAWW). The raptor rehabilitation centre created by TSPCA in Karnala Bird Sanctaury provides injured raptors with needed medical attention and ample space for them to recuperate before they are released into the wild.
In 2012, WCT provided essential funding support to grassroots organisations working to halt the Amur Falcon massacre in Nagaland. The campaign worked at various levels, engaging with the Chief Minister and local authorities to pass a regulation to protect the falcons and simultaneously with the local community to sensitise them on the importance of the birds. A teaching manual about the ecology of the Amur Falcon was designed and distributed. In 2013, to our delight, not a single bird was hunted!
WCT began funding Lifeline for Nature, a local NGO working to restore the Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Rajasthan, in 2012. An UNESCO World Heritage site, the wetland supports an incredible amount of biodiversity – over 365 bird, 375 plant and 50 fish species are found here in addition to several species of mammals, reptiles and invertebrates. An invasive weed Prosopis juliflora had spread rapidly through the wetland, endangering the nesting sites of several migratory birds. With WCT support, over 150 hectares of the wetland were restored.
WCT supports local NGOs and individuals working to rehabilitate injured wild animals or those rescued from the illegal wildlife trade. In 2014, WCT supported the Thane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (TSPCA), Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA), Wildlife S.O.S and the Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare (RAWW). The raptor rehabilitation centre created by TSPCA in Karnala Bird Sanctaury provides injured raptors with needed medical attention and ample space for them to recuperate before they are released into the wild.
Each WCT Rapid Response Unit (RRU) comprises a 4WD vehicle, three motorcycles, stretcher, GPS, sleeping bag, torch and other items needed during an emergency. WCT also donates modified 4WD vehicles and lightweight, injury-proof carnivore trap cages to help rescue wild animals that have strayed into human habitation.
This is supplemented with training in wildlife rescue and conflict mitigation.
WCT sees that frontline forest staff have the equipment they need to conduct their daily protection duties. We provide individual guards with shoes, rain and winter gear, rucksacks, GPS devices, wireless sets, compasses, torches, binoculars and other essential items.
WCT staff travel to forest training institutes and Protected Areas across the country to train frontline forest staff in wildlife law enforcement.
Our intensive three-day workshop covers the fundamentals of wildlife law, the powers that forest guards hold, setting up intelligence networks, effective patrolling strategies, and the methods to be followed to build cases that will hold in a court of law.
Wild animal rescues are extremely stressful situation.
WCT conducts trainings on chemical restraint (tranquillisation) and wild animal rescue to ensure that casualties, both human and animal, can be minimised.
We also sponsor veterinary doctors and deputy conservators of tiger reserves to attend international trainings such as the ‘Chemical and Physical Restraint of Wild Animals Course’ conducted by the Zimbabwe Veterinary Association Wildlife Group at the Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve in Zimbabwe, Africa.
WCT worked with international conservation organisation Panthera to conduct a first-of-its- kind workshop for Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) personnel from the Pench and Tadoba- Andhari Tiger Reserves in Maharashtra.
Twenty four STPF officials were trained in law enforcement, effective patrolling strategies, camouflage, concealment, basic self-defence and how to communicate among themselves during a field operation.
In 2010, WCT partnered with Aircel and NDTV to launch the 'Save Our Tigers' campaign.
WCT’s role was that of a conceptualiser and implementer. Starting with a 12 hour telethon on NDTV 24x7 on December 12, 2010, the campaign brought tiger conservation to the drawing rooms of millions of people worldwide. The Chief Ministers of several Indian states joined the campaign, publicly committing to protecting tigers in their respective states.
The campaign generated 45 million INR and the funds were used by WCT to design, test and deploy Rapid Response Units in tiger reserves across India.
In 2012, the second phase of 'Save Our Tigers' was launched. A 12-hour telethon was broadcast in 74 countries, reaching over 100 million viewers. The initiative generated 50.1 million INR which was used to strengthen Anti-poaching Camps in the core and buffer zones of tiger reserves.
In 2014, the focus turned to influencing policy. A nationwide signature campaign was held and a tiger agenda was created by WCT and presented to Chief Ministers of tiger states.
The ‘WCT Wildlife Service Awards’ were instituted to felicitate officials who do exemplary work.
Recognition, through monetary incentives, is given to frontline forest staff along with associated agencies such as the judiciary, police, Eco-development Committees and NGOs, who work closely with the forest department to curtail forest offenses.
Forest officials in the Kanha, Pench (Madhya Pradesh), Satpura, Tadoba-Andhari, Pench (Maharashtra), Ranthambhore and Panna Tiger Reserves and the Gir National Park have received awards from WCT.
WCT provides facilities such as hand pumps for drinking water, bore wells for irrigation, medical camps, toilets and community halls in villages that have voluntarily relocated out of the core of tiger reserves such as Tadoba-Andhari, Nagarahole, Satpura and Ranthambhore.
WCT helps pay for medical treatment if officials are injured during the course of their duties. In certain parks such as the Kanha Tiger Reserve, WCT has paid for medical insurance for all frontline forest staff.
WCT supports cross-pollination of ideas between wildlife researchers, conservation practitioners and park managers. WCT partnered with Sanctuary Asia to host the Royal Bengal Tiger Consultations, a series of panel discussions on region-specific conservation issues that brought together politicians, civil society, forest officials, NGOs, local authorities and environmentalists.
Recommendations from the consultation were conveyed to state governments for implementation.
From 2012 onwards, WCT has co-funded the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS), an annual gathering in Bengaluru. The event brings together students, researchers and conservationists from around the world and provides a forum for discussion on conservation issues.
