Six programme areas

What SEWA actually does in the field

Rescue, restoration, species monitoring, awareness, livelihoods and research — run continuously across the Navegaon-Nagzira landscape and its buffer villages.

Programme 01

Wildlife Habitats & Species Conservation

Long-run monitoring of tigers, Sarus Cranes, blackbuck and wolves, and the habitat each depends on.

Sarus Crane conservation programme
Tiger and habitat monitoring
Grassland species conservation
Camera trapping, patrolling, cattle-kill and forest-fire monitoring
Anti-poaching drives

Programme 02

Ecological Restoration & Management

Restoring the water infrastructure that holds this landscape together, starting with its historical Malguzari tanks.

Wetland restoration
Rejuvenation of natural waterholes and springs
Plantation drives with village institutions

Programme 03

Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation

A 24x7 response line for injured, displaced and conflict-affected animals across the Gondia landscape.

Rapid response to distress calls
Rescue and safe release
Rehabilitation with the Forest Department
Primary Response Team (PRT) training in buffer villages

Programme 04

Awareness & Sensitisation

Reaching schools, colleges and every peripheral village, because coexistence is a daily practice rather than an annual campaign.

School and village awareness programmes
Wildlife Week celebrations
Sarus Mitra Sammelan
Student volunteer and informer network

Programme 05

Sustainable Livelihood Initiatives

Lowering pressure on the forest by widening what a household can earn without it.

Sustainable MFP harvesting and collection
Self-Help Group formation and training
Alternative livelihood support
Poultry and fishery

Programme 06

Research & Survey

Evidence that field teams and the forest administration can both act on.

Baseline and end-line surveys
Corridor and tiger dispersal studies
Impact assessment and evaluation
Conflict management studies
Wetland ecology surveys
Sarus, waterbird and waterhole census

Fund a programme directly

Camera traps, Sarus Mitra stipends and waterhole restoration are costed per unit, so a donation maps onto a specific piece of field work.

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