Wildlife Trust of India (WTI)

Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) is a leading Indian nature conservation organisation committed to the service of nature. Its mission is to conserve wildlife and its habitat and to work for the welfare of individual wild animals, in partnership with communities and governments.

WTI’s approach to wildlife conservation is best expressed through the nine strategies that WTI describes as Big Ideas:

Wild Rescue: To increase the welfare of displaced individual animals while enhancing conservation and pioneering science-based rehabilitation and wildlife health across India, and in doing so to save at least 40,000 lives in the decade.

Species Recovery: To recover populations of at least six threatened species or sub-species by lowering their IUCN national or global status of threat through direct conservation action.

Conflict Mitigation: Demonstrate seven innovative and replicable models of Human-Wildlife Conflict mitigation to catalyse appropriate changes in policy.

Right of Passage for two umbrella species secured in 50% of their landscape.

Enforcement & Law: To combat key wildlife crime, trade control, litigation and capacity building techniques that demonstrably reduce poaching or trade in at least six taxa or geographies.

Protected Area Recovery: To improve the existing functionality of selected Protected Areas (PAs) and restore their ecological integrity through habitat improvement activities, restocking and/or monitoring of populations of endangered species, providing specialised training to frontline forest staff, sensitising fringe communities about the importance of conservation, and legal and political programs to preserve or expand the territory of protected wildlife habitats

Wild Lands: To secure 2,00,000 hectares of critical habitats outside the traditional PA network and restore degraded and fragmented ecosystems like coral reefs, wetlands and mangroves.

Wild Aid: To provide at least 750 short-term, focused and innovative aid at times of emergencies and conservation issues so as to nip problems in the bud and provide game-changing solutions to age-old problems.

Natural Heritage Campaigns: To create a positive and measurable change in people’s perceptions to improve the conservation and welfare of wildlife in India with at least six planned campaigns.