Wild At Heart

The bagh mitras of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve are trained community mediators; they ease tensions, spread awareness, and show how coexistence can thrive through compassion and conversation.

Wildlife Trust of India’s 'Amphibian Recovery Project' works to protect India’s threatened frog and toad species through habitat restoration, population monitoring, and community engagement.

A community-led initiative in Bhopal is empowering young volunteers to protect tigers and prove that coexistence between people and the wild is possible.

In the wet markets of Northeast India, illegal pangolin trade once posed a major threat to the numbers of the species of the world’s most trafficked mammal. But a unique project is now helping.

High in the cliffs of Nagaland, the Khiamniungan honey hunters practice a vanishing art that blends livelihood, ritual, and reverence for the wild.

A team at Arunachal Pradesh’s CBRC guides orphaned Asiatic black bear cubs back into the wild. The story follows one such journey, capturing the team’s dedication, the gruelling terrain, and the triumph of giving these cubs a second chance at life.

Once royal trackers and hunters, the Pardhi community of Panna now uses its age-old forest skills to protect the very wildlife it once pursued.

Once hunters of Mangalajodi’s wetland birds, the villagers of this Odisha community have, since 1998, transformed into dedicated conservationists and guardians of their local habitat.

Forest guard Bhera Ram Bishnoi has dedicated his life to protecting the wilderness of Rajasthan’s Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.

From bagh-rakhi to pedalling through Pench with a song of hope, the forest department in Pench National Park is ensuring villagers become more aware of the wilderness that surrounds them.