Wildlife Week 2025 Launches Five National Projects for Coexistence and Species Recovery
SDG 15: Life on Land | SDG 13: Climate Action
Institutions: Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change
During Wildlife Week 2025 celebrations in Dehradun, the Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change launched five national initiatives aimed at advancing conservation and mitigating human-wildlife conflict. These include Project Dolphin (Phase II), a new Project Sloth Bear, an Action Plan for Gharial Recovery, a Centre of Excellence for Human-Wildlife Conflict Management (CoE-HWC) at SACON, and the “Tigers Outside Tiger Reserves” initiative.
Complementing these were four national action plans for population monitoring of snow leopards, river dolphins, tigers, and bustards, along with a National Hackathon on human-wildlife coexistence that drew 420 youth from 75 institutions across 20 States/UTs.
What is Wildlife Week? → Observed annually in India from 2–8 October, Wildlife Week promotes awareness of biodiversity conservation and recognises contributions of forest and wildlife staff across the country.
Together, these projects expand India’s species-recovery network beyond flagship tigers and elephants, addressing mid-range species and ecosystem interfaces where conflict mitigation, landscape planning, and community coexistence are critical. They reinforce the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan and India’s commitments under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
Relevant Question for Policy Stakeholders:
How can India integrate conflict-management science and local stewardship into national wildlife-conservation planning to sustain coexistence landscapes?
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