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Grassroots NGO Support Network

This project has been designed to improve the protection of wild tigers by strengthening and supporting small but dedicated NGOs working at the grass roots level. WPSI selects NGOs that have first hand information on forest conditions, tiger movements, poaching, and the effect of human activities on the habitat, and provides them with modest funds.

Initial progress was slow because of the need to obtain government clearances. The project finally took shape in 1999, since when WPSI has supported the following NGOs:

 

Wildlife Society of Orissa (Orissa)
Rhino Foundation for Nature (Assam)
Friends of Forests (Maharashtra)
North Eastern Society for Preservation of Nature and Wildlife (West Bengal)
Nature's Beckon (Assam)
Nature Conservation Society Amravati (Maharashtra)
The Friends of the Doon (Uttaranchal)
Bali Nature and Wild Life Conservation Society (West Bengal).

Examples of support provided to these NGOs include:

  • Providing basic office equipment for The Friends of the Doon, a well-known local NGO in the Corbett and Rajaji national parks;
  • Assisting the Bali Nature and Wild Life Conservation Society, which works for tiger conservation in the Sundarbans, to hold a conservation awareness seminar and build an awareness centre;
  • Printing 10,000 Hindi language awareness posters for Friends of Forests in Maharashtra, plus 2,000 copies of the Hindi version of “The Wild Life Protection Act - A Brief Guide”;
  • Providing a photocopying machine for Aaranyak, an NGO dedicated to the conservation of wild flora and fauna in northeast India.


 

 

 

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