Nonprofit organisation. Science-based conservation of wildlife & habitats. Nurturing positive human-nature relationships. NE India. Connect with us #conservinit
Shillong, India
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Conservation Initiatives is dedicated to conserving our natural world in all its beauty and complexity. Our passion is our strength. Science is our guiding light. Participatory conservation is our foundation. The hoolock gibbon is one of our priority #conservation #species.
A decade ago, we embarked on a conservation journey with Hima Malai Sohmat. This partnership to secure the future of India’s only wild ape has led to various community-led efforts, from conserving forests to ecological restoration. Thank you for helping support this initiative.
#WildlifeWeek
In Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills, communities are helping restore the forests of Hima Malai Sohmat, home to the Western Hoolock Gibbon and other wildlife. 🌿
🌱 Fire lines protecting 22.45 hectares of regenerating forest
🌱 Nurseries raising native saplings for restoration
🌱 Nature guide training for villagers
This Wildlife Week, we celebrate community-led efforts to protect wildlife habitats.
#WildlifeWeek #Conservation
#Biodiversity
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#NewPublication Thrilled to share our publication in Science, A well-connected Earth, where we provide a roadmap for operationalising the restoration or protection of connectivity for targets of well-connected landscapes, for eg, for 30x30 CBD goals.
doi.org/10.1126/science.adn2…
Celebrating the western hoolock gibbon and its conservationists this #internationalgibbonday!
Our conservationists from Karbi Anglong, Assam, express their joy in sharing their home with gibbons, and appeal to everyone to help conserve this incredible primate.
VC: Rohan Sharma
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What better way to wake up to a refreshing tropical forest than with the call of the gibbon!
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A very important long term study with greater understanding of the gentle giants and ways to reduce human elephant conflict.
#BookRelease #Kaziranga #Elephants 🧵
Just out! Our book, 'A Practitioner's Guide to Photographic Monitoring of Asian Elephants for Science and Conservation' was released yesterday at the re-opening of Kaziranga National Park for the tourism season 2024-25… [1/8]
#BookRelease #Kaziranga #Elephants 🧵
Just out! Our book, 'A Practitioner's Guide to Photographic Monitoring of Asian Elephants for Science and Conservation' was released yesterday at the re-opening of Kaziranga National Park for the tourism season 2024-25… [1/8]
This book represents the cumulative effort of our 🐘 team over the years—the Elephant Guardians Binod Gogoi, Anju Bawri, Loknath Gogoi, Jayanta Gogoi, @aishanyasarma, Simon Sona, @anush_uthaiah, Prity Hait, Pragyan Sharma, and others—whose passion and dedication enabled it. [7/8]
Authored by Dr. @varunrgoswami, Dr. @dv_conservinit and Ms. @ParvathiKPrasad, the book is an outcome of our long-term photographic monitoring of elephants in Kaziranga NP, serving as a guide to individual identification of elephants and… [5/8]