Jul 2025
Resource Highlights on Reimagining Coexistence
About: The photo essay by Earth Focus Foundation explores the barriers smallholder farmers face in adopting millet cultivation from policy neglect to lack of processing infrastructure while highlighting its potential for climate resilience and nutritional security in tribal communities.
The Forests and the Classrooms
About: The Forests and the Classrooms explores how contextual, nature-based education rooted in local landscapes can bridge the gap between tribal knowledge systems and formal schooling. Drawing from experiences in forest-fringe villages, the report highlights how learning that reflects children's lived realities can better ecological awareness and cultural pride.
By Network for Conserving Central India
About: This resource from the Network for Conserving Central India explores how little millet and other traditional grains are deeply embedded in tribal food systems. It highlights community-led efforts to revive millet farming for nutrition, resilience, and cultural continuity, making a case for supporting indigenous knowledge in strengthening local food security.
Article: How Assam prepares for human elephant interaction as hathi season arrives
By World Wildlife Fund, India
About: This commentary explores how communities and forest officials in Assam prepare for the annual migration of wild elephants locally known as ‘Haathi Season.’ It highlights proactive measures such as early warning systems, community awareness drives, and conflict mitigation tools aimed at fostering coexistence during this high-risk period.
About: The article highlights the deadly impact of plastic pollution on Asian elephants, using a tragic case in Kerala to spotlight how unmanaged waste is becoming a silent killer. It calls for urgent waste management reforms and community awareness to prevent such avoidable losses and protect India’s gentle giants.
About: Drawing on the parable of the blind men and the elephant, the article reflects on the fragmented understanding of human-wildlife conflict in India. It calls for integrated, multi-stakeholder perspectives to foster genuine coexistence where community voices, ecological science, and policy align to address both conservation and human needs.
About: This article examines how media framing of wild elephants as “rogue” influences public perception and policy around human-elephant conflict. Through the story of a single elephant, it calls for more nuanced, responsible reporting and highlights the importance of empathy and coexistence in conservation storytelling.
About: Lesson in Harmony is a documentary by WWF India that captures ground-level efforts to reduce human-elephant conflict in Assam. The film follows how local communities and authorities use early warning systems, awareness programmes, and coordinated responses to foster peaceful coexistence between people and elephants in high-conflict zones.
About: The video highlights conflict mitigation strategies in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, a critical tiger conservation landscape. It showcases community awareness efforts, early warning systems, and forest department collaboration aimed at reducing human-tiger encounters and promoting coexistence in shared spaces.
About: This short film by WWF India explores the rising instances of human-leopard conflict in India, shedding light on the causes, consequences, and community-driven strategies to reduce tensions. Through real stories and expert insights, it highlights the need for coexistence and conservation solutions that protect both people and wildlife.
By Foundation for Ecological Security
About: This atlas by FES presents spatial data and insights on how rural communities across India depend on land commons for their livelihoods, highlighting patterns of use, pressures, and critical role of these landscapes in sustaining ecological and economic resilience.
By Foundation for Ecological Security
About: This report by FES investiages the ecological and socio-economic impacts of Lantana camara invasion across India's forested landscapes, offering data driven insights into its spread, implications for biodiversity, and the need for integrated management strategies.
Report Community Conserved Areas: The Emergence of a Conservation Movement
By Foundation for Ecological Security
About: This visual brief by FES highlights the significance of Community Conserved Areas (CCAs) in India, showcasing how local stewardship of ecosystems contributes to biodiversity conservation, sustainable resource use and climate resilience.
Report: Fostering Co-existence
By The Corbett Foundation
About: The Corbett Foundation’s Annual Report 2022–23 offers a comprehensive look at its conservation and community welfare work across landscapes like Corbett, Kanha, Kutch, and Kaziranga. The report highlights efforts in species protection, habitat restoration, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, community health, and education. It showcases how integrated, community-first strategies are helping build long-term ecological resilience and social well-being in India’s biodiversity hotspots.
About: This illustrated brochure introduces Panbari Forest, a biodiversity-rich section of Kaziranga National Park, highlighting its birding trails, key wildlife species, and conservation infrastructure. Featuring a detailed map, species checklists, and visitor information, it invites readers to explore Panbari’s ecological richness while promoting responsible tourism and wildlife protection.
Report: Rewilding Forests of Central India – A Comprehensive Report of TCF's Reforestation Work in MP (2018–2025)
About: This in-depth report documents The Corbett Foundation’s eight-year journey restoring degraded forest patches across key landscapes in Madhya Pradesh, including Kanha, Satpura, and Bandhavgarh-Sanjay Dubri corridors. It details ecological interventions like invasive species removal, grassland revival, watershed and soil-moisture conservation, and biodiversity monitoring demonstrating how science-driven restoration and community engagement can rebuild critical tiger habitats in Central India.
About: This illustrated awareness poster by The Corbett Foundation offers practical tips to reduce human-sloth bear conflict in forest-edge communities. It provides the do’s and don’ts for safely navigating shared landscapes, emphasizing group travel, clean surroundings, and cautious behavior during mahua and tendu collection all designed to prevent surprise encounters and promote peaceful coexistence.
Awareness Poster: Snakes of Kaziranga
By The Corbett Foundation
About: This illustrated guide by The Corbett Foundation introduces the diversity of snakes found in and around Kaziranga National Park, categorizing them as venomous, mildly venomous, and non-venomous. It shares safety tips, first aid measures, and conservation messages to reduce fear, promote awareness, and encourage peaceful coexistence with snakes as vital components of the ecosystem.
About: Tales from Kanha is a beautifully illustrated children’s storybook by Katie Bagli, published by The Corbett Foundation in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh Tiger Foundation Society. Through folklore-inspired stories set in the Kanha landscape, the book sensitively weaves together wildlife myths, local beliefs, and conservation values encouraging young readers to reflect on coexistence and environmental stewardship. It serves as both an educational tool and a tribute to the communities living in harmony with the forest.
About: This visual handbook by The Corbett Foundation offers practical guidance on minimizing human-sloth bear conflict, highlighting the species' behavior, signs of presence, and preventive measures through easy-to-understand illustrations and community-centric messaging.
About: This edited volume by The Corbett Foundation compiles diverse insights from experts across South Asia on Asian elephant ecology, human-elephant coexistence, and conservation challenges, offering a multidisciplinary perspective on safeguarding this iconic species in a rapidly changing landscape.
About: This informative poster by The Corbett Foundation highlights the critical role of vultures in ecosystem health, the devastating impact of veterinary drugs like diclofenac on their populations, and urgent conservation actions needed to protect these essential scavengers.