A herd of 10 wild elephants used to damage standing paddy in crop fields of the Maliata area in Kamrup district around the harvesting season causing hardship to the farmers.
In a pioneering effort, the region's premier biodiversity conservation organisation, Aaranyak, has formed Community Surveillance and Monitoring Teams (CSMT) in some villages in Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur as part of an initiative to elicit proactive community cooperation in monitoring and
The event took place at the Rangia Sectoral Headquarter of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), where experts discussed the ongoing trend of wildlife crimes and how border police can play a crucial role in deterring them.
Aaranyak’s official Sanjib Kumar Bezbaruah played a key role in organising these two workshops as part of the organisation's sustained efforts to facilitate coordinated actions among various agencies in the prevention of wildlife crimes.
Biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak with the objective to highlight the importance of primate species in our ecology, facilitated several collaborative awareness programmes in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on the occasion of International Primates Day on Friday.
The sensitisation workshop on "Preventing Wildlife Crime and Illegal Wildlife Trade" was conducted jointly by wildlife crime experts and resource persons from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and premier biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak on being invited by the SSB.
Biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak has initiated an ambitious project for improvement of elephant habitat in Assam's Rowta Reserve Forest to mitigate Human Elephant Conflict (HEC).
She died at her place of posting at Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary near Guwahati, casting a pall of gloom over the entire Aaranyak family as well as all those involved in the conservation of wildlife in the region.
Premier biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak in collaboration with Samagra Shiksha Assam (SSA), Baksa district of Assam conducted a day-long teachers training workshop on Biodiversity conservation and sustainability education in Baska district recently at Nikashi High School.
To boost efforts for mitigation of Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) and facilitate much-needed coexistence through community participation, Aaranyak, a biodiversity conservation organisation, has formed seven Rapid Response Units (RRUs) at the grassroots level in some of the HEC affected areas
In order to mitigate the increasing human-elephant conflict (HEC), Assam launched the Gajah Kotha' campaign, engaging over 1,200 people to foster coexistence.
One of India's foremost research-driven biodiversity conservation organisations, Aaranyak installed 10 solar street lights in seven villages identified as Human-Elephant conflict (HEC) areas in West Garo Hills district.