It strives to deliver swift, targeted, and innovative assistance during emergencies and pressing conservation challenges, aiming to address issues promptly and introduce transformative solutions to longstanding problems.
“To increase the welfare of individual displaced animals while enhancing conservation and pioneering science-based rehabilitation and wildlife health across India, and in doing so to save at least 40,000 lives in the decade.”Wildlife displacement, as conceptualized within the framework of the Wild Rescue division's "Big Idea," refers to the undesired dislodgment of wild animals, either spatially outside their natural habitat or functionally within their habitat.
Additionally, habitats for cheer pheasants in Himachal Pradesh were restocked, and surveys in Jammu and Kashmir confirmed the presence of markhor in new areas.
Since 2003, WTI, in partnership with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), and the Assam Forest Department, has led conservation efforts to ‘Bring Back Manas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose flora and fauna were ravaged by militancy through the late 1980s and 1990s.
The veterinarian responds to wildlife emergencies, the biologist determines why animals could be straying into human habitation areas in that particular landscape, while the sociologist works with local communities to sensitize and prepare them for possible conflict scenarios.
The RRT works with the State Forest Department and the Primary Response Teams (PRTs) which comprise local volunteers and influential people.
Each PRT member is trained to extend support to RRT and take up activities like managing crowds, identifying the presence of carnivores, and negotiating safe passage for wildlife in conflict situations to mention a few.
The division has assisted in several raids and over 275 seizures of wildlife articles ranging from tiger bones and skins, ivory, shahtoosh shawls and wool, bear bile, hathajodi to mongoose hair and brushes.
The organization has assisted agencies in some high-profile cases in the past including the ones against Late Sansar Chand, Salman Khan and MAK Pataudi.
As the name suggests the division aspires to create a positive and measurable change in people’s perceptions of wildlife conservation and Natural Heritage in India.
Equally remarkable is the fact that the fish has achieved an iconic status as Vhali, or ‘the loved one’ in Gujarat with thousands of schoolchildren painting it, celebrating its arrival with plays and street drama, and with six towns on the western coast of India declaring it their city’s mascot.
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