Category: <span>Education</span>

Dealing Man-animal conflict through innovative approach

WILD-CER is helping farmers embrace a new LED light barrier system to prevent crop depredation by wildlife in Manora village of Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary. Background of the project: We conducted a baseline survey in which farmers’ crop losses were revealed due to wild animals. The survey was conducted in …

Workshop on “Vulture Conservation … Vets perspective”

Every year, we celebrate World Vulture Awareness Day on the first Saturday of September. This year, the Wild CER students’ club had organized a guest lecture on “Vulture Conservation…Vet’s perspective” with Guest lecturer Dr. Bahar Baviskar, Wildlife veterinarian and President Wild-CER at Nagpur Veterinary College. Dr. Sanjay Banubakode (Head of Department Veterinary Anatomy, …

International Tiger day celebrated at Pench Tiger Reserve

International Tiger Day was celebrated by Wild CER at Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) in collaboration with Maharashtra Forest Department and Jivhala Club. Shri Prabhunath Shukla, Conservator of Forests and Field Director, P.T.R. was present as the chief guests and Shri Ajinkya Bhatkar, W.W.F. guided the audience as the main speaker. …

Wild-CER received Jivhala award 2023

Considering its immense contribution in the field of wildlife conservation, Jivhala foundation awarded Wild-CER with the Jivhala award 2023. Dr. Bahar Baviskar founder of Wild-CER, received the award in the presence of Jivhala team Shri. Avinash Sanghwai, Shri. Narendra Kulkarni, Shri. Vilas Deshpande. Shri. Mukulji Kanetwar was the chief guest …

Wildlife forensic training for frontline staff of Melghat Tiger Reserve

One day training workshop on “Capacity building of frontline staff for conservation of threatened species by conducting Wildlife Investigation through Forensic Techniques” for Melghat Tiger Reserve was held at Semadoh on 29th August 22.

Seminar on vulture conservation to be organized on 4th September 22

Wild-CER in association with Vanrai Foundation and Asia Big Cat Society is organizing a one day seminar on ‘Status of vulture conservation efforts in India’ at Nagpur on 4th September 2022. The seminar will be organized from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm at Baburao Dhanawate Sabhagruha, Shankar nagar, Nagpur. Abstracts on …

Training on wildlife forensics was organized for Frontline staff

One day training workshop on “Capacity building of frontline staff for conservation of threatened species by conducting Wildlife Investigation through Forensic Techniques” for Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) was held on 2nd March 2022 at Sakoli. According to CCMB, the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are the states that collect

Wildlife forensic training for frontline staff of Navegaon Nagzira Tiger Reserve

One day training workshop on “Capacity building of frontline staff for conservation of threatened species by conducting Wildlife Investigation through Forensic Techniques” for Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) was held on 22nd July 2021 at Sakoli. According to CCMB, the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are the states that collect …

Research presented at 3rd Asian Wild Cat Conservation Workshop, Taiwan.

Findings of the eight year research on ‘Man-animal conflict’ in Central India conducted by Wild-CER was presented during the 3rd Asian Wild Cat Conservation Workshop, Taiwan. The work on ‘Formulating strategies for handling negative interactions involving large cats in Central India’ was presented by Dr. Bahar Baviskar, Wildlife Veterinarian, Wild-CER …