January 2015


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66th Republic Day Celebrated at Wildlife Institute of India

The 66th Republic Day was celebrated on 26th January, 2015 at the Wildlife Institute of India campus with participation of faculty, staff, researchers and students. Officers of the Indian Revenue Service, Postgraduate Diploma Course in Advanced Wildlife Management and Certificate Course in Wildlife Management currently undergoing training at the Institute also participated in the event which began by unfurling of the national flag by Dr V.B.Mathur, Director of the Institute. Speaking on the occasion he said 26th January is a very significant date in our nation’s calendar, on which we celebrate the establishment of free India as a Republic, based on the ideology of justice and equality. It is a day when we recall with gratitude the sacrifices of our freedom fighters and the work of our Founding Fathers, for giving to us a country, where our dignity and individual freedoms are guaranteed by an enlightened Constitution.

Dr Mathur said that the strength of an institution is not determined by the challenges it faces, but by its responses to these challenges and therefore what actions the Institute will take now in terms of leveraging the advantages and addressing the shortcomings, will shape the destiny of the institution.

On this occasion awards were given to staff, officer-trainee and researchers for excellence in games and sports. Four Institute’s drivers were felicitated for showing valour and saving the life and property, which got endangered due to an accidental fire which broke out during night in a camp of officer-trainees in Rajaji National Pak. 

Glimpses of 66th Republic Day Celebrated at Wildlife Institute of India

Release of TIGER~MEETR – 2015 : Measuring the Management Effectiveness Evaluation of Tiger Reserves in India (2014)

The Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) process is a global framework to evaluate the performance of protected areas. India is among the select countries in the world that has institutionalized the MEE process for its network of protected areas. India has not only independently assessed the effectiveness of 28 tiger reserves in 2006, but has taken this process forward, by extending this evaluation in 2010 to 39 tiger reserves and in 2014 to 43 tiger reserves. The outcomes of this assessment are encouraging and despite all odds, Field Directors and front-line staff are putting up a valiant effort to conserve our natural heritage. There has been an overall improvement in the overall MEE score of all 43 tiger reserves from 65 percent in 2010 to 69 percent in 2014.

Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Government of India released the MEE report on 20 January, 2015. He expressed happiness on the overall performance of the tiger reserves and urged the managers of the tiger reserves to closely monitor the performance of the 31 ‘headline indicators’ used in the MEE process

 

Glimpses of the function for the Release of TIGER~MEETR – 2015 20 January, 2015

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Special Certificate Course on Coastal and Marine Biodiversity and Protected Area Management for field-level staff of the Forest Departments from January 12 to February 6, 2015 at Tarkarli, Malvan, Maharashtra

“Conservation and Sustainable Management of Coastal and Marine Protected Areas (CMPA)” project of the Indo-German Biodiversity Programme of GIZ aims at strengthening capacities of key training and learning organizations relevant to Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). In this context, a “Special Certificate Course on Coastal and Marine Biodiversity and Protected Area Management” for field-level staff of the Forest Departments from January 12 to February 6, 2015 at the Indian Institute of Scuba Diving and Aquatic Sports (IISDA) at Tarkarli, in Malvan Maharashtra is being jointly organized by the Wildlife Institute of India and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. This course is intended to enable the participants to have a sound understanding of the concepts and issues related to managing coastal and marine biodiversity, coastal and marine protected areas, ecological and socio-political context, conservation approaches and legal-policy framework between terrestrial and coastal marine PAs, as well as to acquire necessary skills to conduct assessment and monitoring of coastal and marine habitats and species and prepare field reports, and develop-under supervision-operational plan for MPAs based on management effectiveness guidelines.