WWF-India and Aircel have partnered through the Aircel Support Initiative Fund to support tiger conservation efforts across several wildlife sanctuaries and tiger reserves in India. This includes providing equipment like vehicles, boats, binoculars, GPS devices, and winter jackets to forest department staff to help increase patrols and monitoring of tigers. Training is also provided to frontline staff on combat and monitoring techniques. Awareness campaigns have been conducted in local villages near reserves to educate people and reduce human-tiger conflicts.
3. Panna Tiger Reserve WWF-India, with support from Aircel SIF, provided a four-wheeler and a motorcycle, to increase mobility of the staff of the tiger reserve and thereby deter poachers.
4. These vehicles will help forest officials observe the tigers recently translocated here, and help oversee the process of re-population of Panna.
5.
6.
7.
8. Nameri & Pakke Resrves (Assam) Six country boats provided on the park manager’s suggestion, to be used as mobile camps, increasing mobility of the staff.
9. 230 winter jackets provided to Forest Department staff to increase capability to move in the field during winter and monsoon seasons.
![Introduction ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)