The Mud on Boots Project is designed to empower people working on wildlife protection on the ground across India. Over a two-year period, carefully selected Project Leaders receive a monetary grant and other strategic support from the Sanctuary team led by Cara Tejpal, assisted by Maitreyee Mujumdar. Designed to be flexible, Sanctuary’s support is curated and customised to each project. It is on the shoulders of such ‘invisible’ efforts that the entire wildlife conservation edifice stands.
SAVING BENGAL’S FISHING CAT!
What do domestic goats have to do with wild feline conservation? Plenty if we’re talking about West Bengal’s Howrah district where Sanctuary’s Mud on Boots Project Leader Joydeb Pradhan has developed an innovative initiative to improve community relationships with wildlife, in this case fishing cats. West Bengal’s state animal and listed as vulnerable by the IUCN, this cat, sometimes predates on goats, the main livestock of communities in Howrah.
Predictably, retaliation killings take place too and it is this problem that the Mud on Boots Project seeks to resolve in the specific villages of Saoria, Sardah and Khusberia, within a proposed Biodiversity Heritage Site under the Indian Biological Diversity Act, 2002.
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