After extensive development and testing, HEC ALERT BY NWA a new app for Human Elephant Conflict management, developed by NWA is now ready for public release. What is this app for? HEC Alert by NWA lets registered users: report elephant sighting real time get alerts for all elephant sightings within 25 km in the second …
NWA launched a technology-based project in December 2019 that enables park officials to catch poachers red-handed, force prosecution and discourage wildlife poachers using snares. The latest among informed and multi-faceted anti-poaching interventions, the trial project underway at a confidential location uses innovative devices developed by NWA over months of technology trials and years of field …
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A recommended HEC mitigation practice along forest fringes, using crop species that wild elephants find inedible, is misconceived and counter-productive, NWA field studies show. Alternative cropping is among HEC management guidelines recommended by conservation authorities in some countries (http://www.forest.uk.gov.in/files/01-HEC-guidelines.pdf), some scholars and hence some NGOs as well. As a result, villages along forest fringes have …
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The unscientific activist ideas that kill humans and wild elephants in Assam and elsewhere! Unscrupulous activists and organizations have devised ideas to save elephants lives through unscientific methods that do exactly the opposite! Scores of people get killed in just a small area in Assam every year. …
Open letter to all HEC stakeholders on Thailand nationwide HEC taskforce: Thanks to hard work by the Royal Thai Forest Department and the DNP, Thailand is now the leader in Asian wild elephant conservation. Unfortunately, the sharp increase in elephant populations has also led to a serious increase in HEC. The biggest concern is now, …
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The ethics in elephant conservation in Thailand A closer look at the definition of “ethical elephant sanctuary” Thailand has a century-old tradition of elephant keeping; originally used in the army and logging. After the logging ban,30 years ago, most elephants became redundant, resulting in begging elephants on the streets of Bangkok and elsewhere. Elephants then …
NWA Elephant team helping a wild elephant to cross a main highway Our well trained Elephant depredation team mastered a very difficult situation! When an Elephant bull came out of the forest, the team was alerted immediately. Recognizing the elephant, we knew that he was going to cross the nearby main highway at some …
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C.R.O.W. a new partnership with NWA NWA is proud to announce our new partnership with C.R.O.W. WHO WE ARE There is a WAR in Africa between Poachers and Rangers. On one side nearly endless resources coming from the Far East, on the other mere will to protect WildLife. WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? [Andy …
Reducing HEC in Udalguri A mission impossible? We at NWA do not think so! To find information to analyse the problems on hand and their implications, NWA team members started to collect data in early 2018. Based on the collected data, NWA is now developing a tailor made action plan. The Background: Udalguri districts high …
True Heros of Udalguri We would like to introduce you to 3 new members of Nature & Wildlife Association Dibakar Nayak from Orangajuli Tea Estate Ankit Tanti (on the left) from Orangajuli Tea Estate Mithu Sarkar from no.1 Garuajhar village For 10 years, these guys from local villages work on their own to help villagers …