Tag Archives: Social Initiative

A Cartoonist Draws for Wildlife Conservation: Meet Rohan Chakravarty

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This week on our ‘Wild Mentors’ series our attention is on a young cartoonist who uses his artwork as an educative awareness tool for wildlife conservation. Meet Rohan Chakravarty,  our Wild Navigator Wild Mentor. Combining his talent in art and the effects of green humour messages has certainly influenced many in the field of wildlife

The First Scottish Bird Fair

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Interested in Wildlife? Do you love the Outdoors? Are you an avid birder, with interests in raptor species, garden birds or just simply a nature lover? Nothing better than spending the weekend at the first ever Scottish Bird Fair which was held at the famous Hopetoun House on the outskirts of Edinburgh (19th & 20th of

Using Tourism as a Tool for Sustaining Biodiversity Conservation

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Biodiversity can be rightly described as ”diversity of life on planet earth”.  It is a collection of all living things, the places, their existence. According to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Biodiversity is a key tourism asset for many developing countries worldwide. It is directly responsible for 40% of the world’s economy, particularly in

Your Holiday Gift to Nature Conservancy

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The Charity Today we focus our attention on Nature Conservancy, a leading non profit conservation organisation working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for people and nature. They address the most pressing conservation threats at the largest scale. Thanks to the support of their more than 1 million members, they have built a

”Our life at the cost of theirs” - WWF India’s Ad Campaign

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This is the new call for conservation charities, to use advertising as their new awareness campaigns. With depleting wilderness species around the world, people need to be aware about the natural environment and how important these species are for their own human survival. WWF (World Wildlife Fund for Nature) hired creative giants Ogilvy & Mather from India

India’s ‘Cats in the Cradle’: Will Wildlife Tourism be its silver spoon?

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Recent reports have come from India where wildlife tourism could potentially be banned in India’s core critical tiger habitats. Wildlife activists, conservationists, tourism providers and travellers are all concerned about India’s future. This write-up has been waiting to be posted for a long time and nothing worse to come around a time when wildlife tourism in India’s tiger

Charity Focus: The Elephant Family

The Elephant Family is UK’s biggest charity fundraiser for the Endangered Asiatic Elephant. This charity works to save this iconic animal from extinction in the wild. Along with the elephant they work on other species like the orangutan, crocodile, tigers and hornbills that exist in this ecosystem. They work with local NGO and partners where they

Will tiger tourism help conservation? CNN-IBN chats with Abhishek Behl

I am attaching this chat I had many years ago (2008) with India’s News Channel CNN-IBN and their environmental team. The Topic of the chat was ‘Will Tiger Tourism help Conservation.’ At that time I was heading the Travel Operators for Tigers India Wildlife Association in India as their Executive Director. All views expressed were

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