Looking for Markhor: The first Schaller Conservation Team on the Indo-Pak Line of Control

Wild Species projects reflect long-term organisational commitment and are selected after careful thought is given to the conservation status of the species, conservation relevance of a particular project, manpower and local support, government priorities and fund availability.

Helping the recovery of the last remaining wild buffaloes in central India; reviving the habitat of the tiger by reducing the dependence of people on the forest, in the forgotten Valmiki Tiger Reserve that borders Nepal; working to connect lost tiger corridors in central India to strengthen the gene pool; researching effective ways of mitigating human-elephant conflicts; are some of the projects that WS is working on.

Tibetan antelope: The first confirmation of its number and distribution in India

The generous donation made by Dr George Schaller, has kickstarted WTI's Schaller Conservation Surveys. The first of these looked at the markhor, a spectacular goat found on the border of India and Pakistan in Kashmir, and the results of the study have led to the government declaring a new National Park after decades to protect the species. A survey of the range of the Tibetan antelope on the China border, has for the first time, established numbers and age and sex of the herd. A team of dedicated researchers are scouting the forests of southern India for the Malabar civet, last seen sixty years ago.