Hi Alienor,

To put my comments into context, my feedback is around your general strategy based on some research I’ve done previously on this topic. You may also want to try to contact Simon Pooley who is an expert on human-wildlife conflict and works at Birkbeck university in London. Simon is also a crocodile expert and therefore well versed in human-wildlife/predator conflict.

I would encourage you to look at other successful and less successful Tiger conservation projects to obtain a holistic view on what works in Tiger conservation and what doesn’t to help inform your strategy further and develop a multi-pronged approach to increase your initiative’s chances of success.

Chitwan National Park in Nepal is a success story and there are a few articles and research papers available which show their strategy had many interdependent facets/areas that were addressed, namely:

• Obtaining tangible and visible support from the Nepalese government
• Stakeholder awareness raising via workshops held by top Tiger conservationists and experts.
• Tackling poaching through intentional legislation and establishment of wildlife crime central units given the powers to arrest poachers. Locals were also given this ability.
• New monitoring and evaluation tools implemented.
• Education future generations and locals e.g. The Ecoclub for children
• Forests protected and restored
• Understanding the effect of stewardship and faith and using this to promote conservation efforts.

I would encourage you to read this recent article on restoring Tiger populations in Bhutan which also used a multi and interdisciplinary strategy to increase its Tiger population.

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/restoring-ecosystems-and-tiger-populations-bhutan

Hope this helps.

Helena.