Conflict Mitigation

Human-wildlife conflict-prone & Co-existence landscapes (Co-Ex Scapes) with the goal of designating conflict-prone areas, prioritising human-wildlife conflict mitigation and strengthening coexistence as a pilot.

• Rapid Response Team (RRT) comprising a biologist, a sociologist and a veterinary doctor providing immediate specialised technical response to human-wildlife conflict situations.
• Primary Response Team (PRT) comprising local community volunteers providing immediate response to human-wildlife conflict situations by securing the conflict site, supporting victims with first aid, assisting forest and police departments, and crowd management. 
• Community-led & community-managed barriers based on scientific need assessment to prevent human-wildlife conflict using locally appropriate physical and/or psychological barriers.
• Suraksha kavach (measures to protect wild animals, human & livestock), protecting wild animals from retaliation, and humans and livestock from depredation by wild predators through participatory protection measures.
• Prahari (early warning & animal detection measures) to detect wildlife, alert local people & relevant stakeholders in select conflict-prone areas
• Prakritishala (nature interpretation hubs) serve as platforms for sensitising the local communities (e.g. youth, women, children, farmers, resource harvesters, etc.) on behaviour change through a campaign as a pre-emptive measure.
• Safe resource harvesting practices to improve the safety of forest-based resource harvesting practices in local communities, thereby minimising negative human-wildlife interactions.
• Capacity building to strengthen the knowledge and skills of key stakeholders in addressing human-wildlife conflict as a pre-emptive measure through basic, advanced and refresher modules and develop an online platform of training resources for stakeholders.
• Redefining the narrative of human-wildlife conflict by facilitating a transformation from a biased to a more nuanced narrative on conflict.