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    • A Rocha Field Study Centre
      #13, Kasserguppe Village,
      Bilwardahalli (Dakle), Bannerghatta (Post),
      Jigani (Hobli), Anekal (Taluk),
      Bangalore South-560083
      Karnataka - IN

      +91 9886672041
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  • Studying elephants in Bannerghatta National Park, South India
  • Running nature camps and workshops for young people
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The forests of Southern India are critical for the conservation of many threatened large mammals, but they have high-density human populations. Bannerghatta National Park (BNP), lying in the Eastern Ghats, protects roughly 256 sq kms and is just 22 kms south of Bangalore, India’s third most populous city. It is part of the country’s largest scrub forests and is a critical landscape as it connects to larger forest tracts in the South, providing an undisturbed link between the Eastern and Western Ghats.

BNP is mostly known for its population of Asian Elephant Elephas maximus that are in constant conflict with people. The Park has a complex shape, resulting in a notably long boundary, further increasing the interface between humans and elephants. Park-edge communities are dependent on farming for subsistence and elephants moving out of the protected area destroy crops and claim lives, leading to retaliatory persecution of the elephants and strained relations with the protected area managers. Habitat loss, quarrying and sand mining in the region further disturb the elephant habitats. A failure to mitigate conflict effectively has resulted in increased antagonism of people towards elephants and the forest officials, thus hampering elephant conservation.

For the last decade our comprehensive conservation program has focused on researching, understanding and mitigating human-elephant conflict in and around BNP in order to find effective solutions for the long term sustainability of wildlife, habitats and the people who live there.

  • Conservation science

    A Rocha India’s conservation programs are largely based on mitigation measures reducing the threat of human-animal conflict in the highly fragmented landscape of Bannerghatta National Park (BNP).

  • Community conservation

    We believe that community is an essential key to conservation and therefore there is a requirement for sensitization and collaboration among local key factions.

  • Education programs

    Conservation in India depends upon the support of future generations. Our education programs are based on a hands-on approach to understanding the reality and challenges facing our natural heritage.

  • Kasserguppe Field Study Centre

    Our field study center is a fully functional rustic house set amidst the local community where one can enjoy getting away from the hustle and bustle of city life.

  • Creation and care

    Through the message of ‘Creation and Care’ we create an interest in people about the growing conservation concerns that our country faces and what we need to do to be environment conscious from a biblical perspective.

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