Camera-trap monitoring
4 framesFour blocks on rotation — Jambhadi 1 and 2, Chulband, and the Karutola corridor stretch in Deori.
Year by year
The record, in photographs
Every year SEWA files an annual report: what was counted, what was built, who was reached. This is the same record in photographs, taken by the field team as the work happened.
2023-24
April 2023 – March 2024
The widest year on record: more animals rescued, more waterholes rejuvenated, and the highest attendance the Sarus Mitra Sammelan has had.
What the year counted
- animals rescued
- 98 animals rescued 60 reptiles, 29 birds, 9 mammals
- waterholes rejuvenated
- 19 waterholes rejuvenated
- camera-trap days
- 90 camera-trap days across four blocks
- forest patrols
- 68 forest patrols
- fire-monitoring days
- 55 fire-monitoring days
- people reached directly
- 3,010 people reached directly 42 school and 18 village programmes
- Sarus census participants
- 128 Sarus census participants
- waterbird census participants
- 80 waterbird census participants
Wildlife rescue & rehabilitation
3 framesNinety-eight animals in the year — 60 reptiles, 29 birds, 9 mammals. The line runs 24 hours.
Asian Waterbird Census
3 framesCounted on foot every January, alongside the Sarus census.
Minor forest produce & livelihoods
4 framesTendu leaf, mahua and other minor forest produce — the income that lowers the pressure on the forest itself.
Fire season & the Forest Department
2 framesFifty-five days of fire monitoring, and the training that has to happen before any of it works.
2022-23
April 2022 – March 2023
A hard fire season, and the year the water work moved from restoring tanks to building structures inside the corridor itself.
What the year counted
- animals rescued
- 78 animals rescued 49 reptiles, 23 birds, 6 mammals
- waterholes rejuvenated
- 17 waterholes rejuvenated
- camera-trap days
- 101 camera-trap days four blocks, including Khadbandah
- forest patrols
- 60 forest patrols
- fire-monitoring days
- 45 fire-monitoring days
- people reached directly
- 2,580 people reached directly 40 school and 15 village programmes
- Sarus census participants
- 131 Sarus census participants
- wetland ecology surveys
- 34 wetland ecology surveys
Camera-trap monitoring
5 framesWhat the trap line records in a season: tiger, leopard, sloth bear, honey badger.
Water source rejuvenation, NNTR buffer
4 framesSandbag bunds across forest nalas, so water holds later into the summer and animals can still move.
Forest fire mitigation
2 framesThe Murdoli fire, March 2023 — detected, reported and beaten out with the Forest Department.
2021-22
April 2021 – March 2022
The first year the activity register was kept in full — and the baseline every later year is measured against.
What the year counted
- animals rescued
- 62 animals rescued 30 reptiles, 27 birds, 5 mammals
- waterholes rejuvenated
- 15 waterholes rejuvenated
- camera-trap days
- 110 camera-trap days Jambhadi 1 and 2, Chulband
- forest patrols
- 45 forest patrols
- fire-monitoring days
- 35 fire-monitoring days
- people reached directly
- 2,349 people reached directly 38 school and 12 village programmes
- Sarus census participants
- 130 Sarus census participants
- tendu collection beneficiaries
- 3,280 tendu collection beneficiaries Deori block
Sarus Mitra Sammelan
2 framesTwenty-nine Sarus Mitras attended, with 350 more reached through them.
Sarus Cranes across the state line
1 frameBalaghat district in Madhya Pradesh holds the larger half of the same population.
2020-21
April 2020 – March 2021
Census and rescue work continued through the pandemic year; the awareness programme moved onto the road.
Sarus Crane monitoring & rescue
5 framesThe count, and the calls that come in between counts.
Grassland species & waterholes
5 framesBlackbuck and wolf counts run alongside the tiger work, because the same pressures decide both. Wildlife Week 2020 was given over to wolf conservation.
Awareness & village outreach
3 framesSchools, self-help groups, and a mobile exhibition for the villages no school programme reaches.
2019-20
April 2019 – March 2020
Wildlife Week 2019 ran across the district — corridor walks, school assemblies and a travelling exhibition.
Wildlife Week
6 framesStudents, villagers and forest staff on the same ground on the same morning.
Grassland species
2 framesThe counts that nobody else was running in this district.
The Sarus census on the ground
4 framesWalked field by field, on one fixed protocol, so twenty years of numbers stay comparable.
Sarus Mitra Sammelan
4 framesFarmers, Forest Department and police in one room — which is the whole point of the gathering.
2018-19
April 2018 – March 2019
Tank restoration at its widest: silt out by hand, scrub off the bed, and the wetland survey that follows it.
Malguzari tank restoration
6 framesManual, seasonal, and done by the households that use the tank.
2017-18
April 2017 – March 2018
The year the birds went up on the walls of the villages whose fields they use — and the first full fire season on record.
Village wall paintings
4 framesTen walls, each painted with a bird of the district at the scale of the bird itself.
Wetlands & the tank system
1 frameWatched from machans through the census season.
Working with the villages and the department
2 framesAlongside the Forest Department in three districts, rather than around it.
Forest fire mitigation
2 framesThe season runs February to June, and much of the work is done after dark.
2016-17
April 2016 – March 2017
Field survey for the dispersal study, two years after registration and five years into the work.
Corridor & dispersal study
1 frameSigns recorded on the ground, one field at a time.
Since 2011
Corridor & dispersal study, running continuously
The study that began three years before SEWA was registered, and has not stopped since. These frames are undated in the archive.
Tiger dispersal, Navegaon–Nagzira
5 framesNorth to Kanha-Pench, south to Umred-Karhandla. A reserve holds a population; a corridor keeps it from becoming an island.
Where these come from
Activity counts are SEWA's own, from the organisation's activity register. Years without counts are shown without them rather than estimated.
Every photograph here was taken by SEWA's own field team unless a different photographer is credited beneath the frame. Location metadata is stripped from each image before publication, because camera-trap and nest photographs carry coordinates that should not be public.