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 24^th 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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