International species conservation course concludes at Amravati

The Times of India , Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Correspondent : Vijay Pinjarkar,
NAGPUR: An international course organised by Satpuda Foundation in collaboration with Amravati University, USA based Environment Education and Conservation Global (EECG), Wildlife wing of Maharashtra and Nature Conservation Society, Amravati (NCSA) in 'Behaviour change conservation campaigns — A new tool for species conservation with focus on tiger in India' — concluded at Amravati.

Around 14 participants from tiger range countries including Bangladesh, Nepal and India participated in the three-week-long course. They were given certificates at the graduation ceremony on Friday. The concluding function was presided over by Edward McCrea of EECG, USA, and Mohan Jha, chief conservator of forest (Amravati) was the chief guest.

During the course, participants learnt how to use conservation education as a tool to change behaviour of various target groups of communities for tiger conservation issues through lecture sessions at Amravati University. Field modules were also conducted at Melghat and Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR).

This is the second such course organised by this alliance aiming at tiger conservation and to prepare conservation practitioners and forest staff, so that they can learn how to use media tools and techniques to change the community behaviour to address the issues of species conservation. The course was inaugurated on November 11, 2013 at Amravati University.

Kishor Rithe, a former member of Standing Committee of National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), who started this course in India in 2009 through this alliance, explained the course proceedings. Jha lauded the efforts and expected that the participants will bring positive change in different tiger landscapes.

Edward McCrea, president and co-founder of EECG and course instructor, said the course was successful looking at the feedback. "We discussed complex problems like poaching, wildlife trade and man-animal conflict and use of media tools and effective techniques to address species conservation were explained to participants to make them capable to handle the ground situation," he said.

Rabin Kadariya from Nepal, Zubair Hussni Fahad from Bangladesh and Santosh Kumar Sahoo from Punjab, spoke about the usefulness of course to them.

 
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