August 2018
Culture-Nature Journey Symposium: A Culture-Nature Journey: Beyond Borders in Asia and the Pacific, 24-26th October, 2018 at Dehradun and New Delhi, India
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WII-GIZ Human-Wildlife Conflict Project launched
The Wildlife Institute of India launched its new project entitled “Knowledge Support to Development of Guidelines, Specialized Field Studies and Training on Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation in India” on 24th August 2018, funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH under the Indo-German Technical Cooperation project entitled “Human Wildlife Conflict Mitigation in India (HWC)”, which is being jointly implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and GIZ.
The inception workshop was chaired by Dr. H. S. Pabla, Chairman, Training, Research and Academic Council, Wildlife Institute of India and Dr Konrad Uebelhoer, Programme Director, Indo-German Biodiversity Programme, GIZ, who released the project brochure. This workshop was organized to launch the project activities, and to initiate planning for developing National Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Strategy and Action Plan (N-HWCM-SAP) and Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) for conflict mitigation with selected species. The primary agenda of the workshop was to share information of the overall cooperation between MoEFCC-GIZ-WII through this Grant project, and to discuss the framework, key elements, approach and work-plan for drafting N-HWCM-SAP and SOPs.
The workshop was attended by senior forest officials, scientists and researchers. The workshop included case studies, knowledge café, and group discussions on N-HWCM-SAP and SOPs for carnivore and herbivore species. At the end, frameworks and key elements of N-HWC-SAP and SOPs were finalized. Groups of experts for each, along with tentative dates and venue for regional and national workshops to present zero draft of N-HWC-SAP and SOPs were also decided.
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Last Updated: September 8, 2018
72nd Independence Day Celebration
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India’s 72nd Independence Day was celebrated in the Wildlife Institute of India campus on 15th August, 2018. Hoisting the national flag, Dr. V.B. Mathur, Director recalled the sacrifices of the countrymen during the freedom struggle that finally led to India’s Independence. He said that Government of India had assigned several new responsibilities to the Institute for planning and implementing species recovery programmes in respect of 4 critically endangered wild animal species viz. Great Indian Bustard, Gangetic Dolphin, Dugong and Manipur Deer and the Institute had taken up the challenge of ‘field conservation’ in 14 States of the country, where these species occur. Similarly, under the National Mission for Clean Ganga the Institute has recently established a ‘Ganga Aqualife Conservation and Monitoring Centre’ in the campus and ‘Ganga Biodiversity Knowledge Centres’ have also been established at Narora and Sarnath in Uttar Pradesh; Sahibganj in Bihar and Bhagalpur in Jharkhand. He urged the Institute’s scientists, researchers, students and staff for their continued support in successfully meeting the various challenges and new responsibilities assigned to the Institute. On this occasion, award and certificates were given to school children who had excelled in programmes organized during World Environment Day 2018 Painting Competition
Poster Making Competition
A certificate of appreciation was given to Shri Satish Kumar for providing excellent services in the Organic Solid Waste Management Programme initiated by the Institute in January, 2018.
The flag hoisting ceremony was followed by launching of Organic Solid Waste Management Programme in WII staff campus.
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Last Updated: August 16, 2018
