During 2022, as many of us faced rocketing prices as the cost of living crisis bit hard, we were humbled by your generous support. Without your loyal support for our wild tiger conservation efforts more wild tigers would face uncertain futures each day! It seems like saying thank you for your continued incredible support isn’t enough, but believe me when I say that without your help we couldn’t give wild tigers a wild future. So thank you so much for your help to ensure that we can make a real difference for wild tigers in their natural habitat.
After Seven Months of Challenges
If you’ve read our previous project reports you’ll know we’ve faced many challenges whilst trying to provide year round water for wild tigers in the Panpatha Buffer Forest. We hoped that our troubles were over as we recently identified another underground stream which could supply the borewell pump and provide water for wild tigers where a desperate need persists. Sadly, we encountered problems we've never faced before.
Work in the area had already been halted by an aggressive tigress with three cubs, whilst the movement of wild elephants presented new challenges too. Then as the cold winter weather arrived, dangerous persistent fog blanketed the work site for what seemed like months but was only a matter of weeks. Finally, the fog cleared and the days were getting warmer with more daylight hours. Work could resume to provide year round water for wild tigers, elephants and other wildlife in the Panpatha buffer forest. This project sought to boost the water supply at two seasonal waterholes which were dependent on monsoon rainfall and frequently ran dry by the end of February each year. The larger waterhole had already been excavated in the summer of 2022 to ensure that a much larger and deeper waterhole would be there in an area with a lack of other water sources. The smaller waterhole is a small pond favoured by an aggressive tiger family, but only big enough to support one tiger at once. The borewell pump would increase capacity at both, or that was the plan.
绿藻覆盖整个水面t the larger waterhole and had spread across the sandy banks alongside, which had been our preferred location for the borewell. The algae rendered the site swampy and unable to support the weight of the drilling equipment, so we moved to higher ground to find a new drilling site. The water diviner confirmed the location of the underground stream and drilling started. Four days later, the terrain beneath the drill collapsed into the hole where the borewell had been created. Too much sand and not enough rock, we had to relocate again.
That Sinking Feeling Again
Again we moved the drilling site to higher terrain, this time adjacent to the road. The water diviner confirmed the presence of the underground stream below the surface rocks and drilling started again. Before long the drill had cleared the rocky terrain and was again drilling through soft sand. Once again, the borewell collapsed due to instability of the sub-terrain. The drilling equipment was stuck, and retrieving the drill overheated the motor. A new drill would be needed to try elsewhere. Only one more possible site remained, the distance was now more than 1 km (5/8ths of a mile) from the waterholes so underground feeder pipes would be stretched to their maximum capacity. Night had fallen, so it was going to be a task for the next day. The new drill arrived bright and early and there was great optimism that this time the ground would be stable enough to support the borewell pump system, however, it was not to be. After drilling all day and obtaining a small jet of water from the underground stream, the sub-terrain collapsed again. The team was distraught! After months of work, preparing for two permanent waterholes with year-round water for wildlife, our efforts have failed!
So What Happens Now?
Even though disaster has struck and we cannot put a solar pump system in place to provide a permanent water source at the two sites in the Panpatha Buffer Forest, the need does not go away. Filling the waterholes by tankers is not an ideal solution because it acclimatises tigers to large trucks and makes them vulnerable to poachers. So we must look at other options for the longer term. Rainwater harvesting solutions may be possible but further surveys including a full geological survey will be required to assess the terrain before any new work can commence, given the problems already encountered.
Panpatha isn’t the only buffer forest area in need of permanent waterholes for wild tigers so we can transfer work to another site. One such site exists in the Dhamokhar buffer where a large seasonal waterhole frequented by seven tigers has already run dry. As I write this report, we are conducting surveys at and near the site to establish the presence of underground water streams and whether these are beneath rocky terrain. On completion of the surveys, we will know if the Dhamokhar site is suitable for our next waterhole project or whether we need to move to the next priority site where human-wildlife and tiger-tiger conflict are rife.
Rainwater Harvesting Projects
我们将继续探索集雨年代olutions alongside our solar pump systems as there are many season water sources which are dry within two months of the end of the monsoon rains but are in locations not suited to solar pump systems. For now, our work in the Panpatha Buffer is on hold and work at the revised location in the Dhamokhar buffer will bring the total number of wildlife waterholes funded by Tigers4Ever to thirteen and the number of tigers which will benefit to 76. It is not where we wanted to be, but with the drought season already on its way we must act quickly before human-wildlife and tiger-tiger conflict get out of hand.
We still hope to put in Rainwater Harvesting systems at priority locations prior to the onset of the 2023 monsoon rains, but this will be subject to both fundraising and completion of essential site surveys. In the meantime, we will focus our efforts, with your help, on providing permanent wildlife water resources at a thirteenth and fourteenth location, which will be amazing. Thank you.
As Tiger and Elephant Numbers Continue to Grow
野生的大象班达迦继续革命制度党mary cause of human-wildlife conflict. There is no short term solution to the problem, as many factors need to be addresses concurrently. The wild elephant population is increasing year on year and they need space, water and food. Years of forest degradation due to illegal logging, clearance for crop growing, forest fires and plundering of scarce forest resources for both human and livestock benefit, means that a sustained project of forest regeneration and management will be required to redress the decline.
Prior to the pandemic, Tigers4Ever put forward an ambitious proposal for tree planting and habitat restoration. This would initially take 4 years to implement and up to 10 years for the reforested areas to be self-sustaining, but cannot be done in isolation, more waterholes would also be needed in the reforested areas to ensure wildlife returns and aids natural seed dispersal. During 2023-2024 we want to raise sufficient funds to kick-start this project and to plant quick growing vegetation which elephants can eat in areas of denuded forest around potential waterhole sites. In time the new forest canopy will help to retain natural water in streams and pools within the rehabilitated area, but in similar projects elsewhere it can take 10 -15 years to get to this stage. With water and forest cover, it won’t be just the elephants which benefit, deer and other herbivores will thrive too.
This project is essential to reducing tiger-tiger conflict too, as the tiger population increases more tigers need more space and more food, reforestation will help this too. As Bandhavgarh’s wild tiger numbers continue to increase, more space and more prey are vital for the future survival of the growing population. Tigers4Ever waterholes play a vital role in stabilising and increasing prey numbers too. When there is a shortage of water and food, deer and other prey animals don’t breed which means less food for a growing predator population. Tiger-tiger conflict is the result, as they fight for limited available prey. Tiger cub survival rates are still around 90-95% (which is much higher than the 50% average for wild tigers!), whilst this is good news for the wild tiger population, it increases the need for better habitat, more water and more prey.
At Least SixteenMore Waterholes are Needed
To sustain the growth Bandhavgarh’s wild tiger population, more permanent wildlife waterholes are needed in areas which can support both prey and predator dispersal. Sixteen such locations have been identified and work is underway to determine the availability of underground water sources for solar pump systems or sites suitable for future rainwater harvesting projects.
We will have our work cut out to provide 16 more wildlife waterholes at the pace at which they are needed. So your continued support and donations are vital to ensuring that our waterholes project (https://goto.gg/34315) can address this need.We need to raise at least £15000/$17000 annually to provide a minimum of three small-medium sized waterholes each year.So it will take us at least 5 years to provide the sixteen waterholes needed! We know that we’re in the middle of a cost of living crisis and fundraising will continue to be hard for some time.
Experience tells us that the best way to reduce the Human-Wildlife conflict is to prevent the prey animals from going to the villages in search of water. Thus we prioritise our permanent wildlife waterhole projects as the drought season begins, each year. We hope to provide permanent wildlife water sources at two more locations before the end of March, which will bring the total number of Tigers4Ever waterholes completed to fourteen in total. When prey animals have adequate water and food, the tigers and leopards will have enough food too. When we complete our 13thwaterhole project, the number of wild tigers benefitting from Tigers4Ever waterholes will increase to at least 76. Our next target will be to put a larger waterhole in place where it will help to reduce human-elephant conflict and benefit up to six more wild tigers.
100% Match Bonus on New Monthly Donations
This year the GlobalGiving is providinga 100% bonus in matched fundson new monthly donations so long as you donate for at least four months, when your online donations to our waterhole project will qualify for the matched bonus. Imagine if 250 of you wonderful people read this report and donate just £10 ($13) per month each, we will raise enough funds needed towards our next five waterhole projects://www.tuuhangaido.com/projects/water-for-bandhavgarhs-tigers/?show=recurring。With bonus matched funds too we’d be well on the way towards ensuring that wild tigers, their prey and wild elephants have water to drink as the 2023 drought season arrives! It would be amazing if during the matched funding campaign we could raise a total of £15000 (US$17000) so that we can create wildlife waterholes at two more seasonal sites and bring the total number of wild tigers benefitting from Tigers4Ever waterholes to around 90 including cubs.
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Permanent wildlife waterholes are essential to prevent future tiger-tiger and human-animal conflict, which arise from increased wild tiger numbers, and better cub survival rates. There are currently more tiger cubs (64) in Bandhavgarh than the total number of wild tigers (37) counted in the Tiger Census (in 2010) when Tigers4Ever started its work there, thus we need to do everything we can to prevent wild tiger deaths due to retaliatory response to human-wildlife conflict. One waterhole is nowhere near enough to reduce the conflict caused by wild tigers encroaching on the territories of other tigers and humans, so we need your help to be able to do at least two more waterholes too,before it is too late for the wild tigers andother wildlife://www.tuuhangaido.com/projects/water-for-bandhavgarhs-tigers/。在你的帮助下,我们可以筹集到足够的钱start work on another two waterholes which willsave another 16 wild tigers including cubs。
Our Challenges Ahead
We need to keep wild tigers safe right now. Our anti-poaching patrols are tripled to address the risk of retaliatory poisoning and poaching. With your help, we can complete two more waterhole projects soon, whichwill help to keep at least 16 more wild tigers safe.
These are some of the ways your donations will help us to save wild tigers:
- £10 ($13) per month for a year will help to drill 12 metres (39 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- a one-off £20 ($26) gift will help to drill 2 metres (6.5 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- a one-off £40 ($52) gift will help to drill 4 metres (13 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- £90 ($117) can pay a team of workers to prepare a site for a new waterhole for wild tigers;
- £120 ($169) can cover the cost of labour and preparation of a 1.5 metre wide by 1.5 metre deep elephant proof moat to protect a solar-pump system;
- £2000 ($2600) will enable the creation and lining of one larger waterhole.
Every donation, no matter how large or small, helps us increase and protect the tiger population. Thank you on behalf of the wild tigers, which you help us to keep safe; and on behalf of the wider tiger community in Bandhavgarh, which benefits from providing equipment and labour for our waterhole projects. We couldn’t do this without you, thanks to you, the wild tigers can live peacefully and those who live beside them can protect their livelihoods.
Any and all donations are welcomehttps://goto.gg/34315。
If you can’t afford to donate perhaps you could become a Tigers4Ever fundraiser, here://www.tuuhangaido.com/dy/v2/fundraisers/start/?fundraiser.projids=34315and ask your friends, colleagues and family to donate to your fundraiser to help us keep wild tigers safe.
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We’ve received some amazing support throughout 2022 for our wild tiger conservation efforts, so I can only say thank you for your continued incredible support, we couldn’t give wild tigers a wild future without you. I know that 2022 has brought significant challenges for many of you, but despite this you’re still helping us to make a real difference for wild tigers in their natural habitat.
More waterholes for the Panpatha Buffer Forest
In my last report we had good news about a new wildlife waterhole in the Dhamokhar Buffer forest, and the late monsoon had enabled us to start work on another waterhole in the Panpatha buffer forest. Shortly after writing the last report, the heavy monsoon rains arrived and halted our efforts at the Panpatha site. However, all was not lost because surveys confirmed that the underground water source is strong enough to support two waterholes in the Panpatha buffer, thus we will be able to provide even more permanent wildlife waterholes where they are needed most. The size of the main waterhole was more than doubled prior to the works being halted and routes have been identified to put underground feeder pipes in elephant proofed channels to ensure both waterhole sites will have a continuous supply of fresh water year round.
In September, the heavy rains usually subside, but this year it wasn’t the case so we had to put our work on hold for longer as we were unable to get the drill in situ due to soil and track instability. Every time we had three dry days, the fourth was a torrential thunderstorm which scuppered our plans! These unseasonal rains have continued into October too, bringing cooler temperatures than usual for this time of year. The Hindu (Indian) festivals of Dussehra and Diwali during October are times when people take time off to be with their families, so our work to complete two more waterholes in the Panpatha Buffer forest is likely to go into November now. The additional rainfall in September and October means that there is still plenty of wildlife water around at the moment, which is good news nonetheless. Once our work in the Panpatha Buffer is complete will bring the total number of wildlife waterholes funded by Tigers4Ever to fourteen.
Rainwater Harvesting Projects
In our last report, we also brought some exciting news about our plans to introduce Rainwater Harvesting projects in dry forest locationswhere the elevation and/or terrain make them unsuitable for solar-powered borewell pump systems. We’re delighted to say that we have now secured suitable expertise in Rainwater Harvesting projects and geological and hydrological data is currently being obtained so that we can put in Rainwater Harvesting systems at priority locations prior to the onset of the 2023 monsoon rains. This will be a year later than we had hoped, but finding suitable expertise, funding and obtaining the survey data has taken longer than we would have hoped. In the meantime, we will focus our efforts, with your help, on providing permanent wildlife water resources at a fifteenth location, which will be amazing. Thank you.
As Tiger and Elephant Numbers GrowMore Waterholes are Needed
野生大象继续给我们带来新的挑战both in protecting solar pump systems and water pipelines at our existing and new waterhole sites. Something which will be an ongoing problem as the wild elephant population grows. We continue to use a variety of solutions to elephant-proof each location as “the one size fits all” solution definitely doesn’t work, in our experience. We know that the wild elephants favour our larger waterholes, but they also cause significant crop damage and increase human-wildlife conflict with their fondness of the rice paddy fields. To reduce this conflict, we must now consider larger waterholes which will accommodate both tigers and elephants in areas where an absence of water is causing conflict to increase. In an ideal situation we would do this in conjunction with our forthcoming forest rehabilitation project as we seek to restore lost forest habitat, but wild elephants are like mammalian bulldozers clearing pathways through the forest as they consume up to 150kg (330lbs) of vegetation each day! Young tree saplings would be no match! We also tailor the elephant-proofing our solar-pump systems to the type of terrain involved as the deep wide moat system is best suited to rocky terrains, and chilli pepper or bee-hive fencing and lemon grass options are suited to more variable locations. As a matter of course, we now bury all of new waterhole feeder pipes at least 1.5 metres (60 inches) beneath the ground to prevent wild elephants from unearthing and damaging them.
The wild elephants are here to stay. Since their arrival from neighbouring Chhattisgarh, where mining activity disrupted their forest home, the herd has almost trebled. In fact, the herd has split into distinct groups which seem to have habitat preferences too. Whilst small groups are happy to forage in dense bamboo, the larger numbers tend to prefer established trees and grasslands. Whilst we know that the wild elephants continue to benefit from our current 12 wildlife waterholes, they have their preferences and our larger deeper waterholes play a key role in the elephant survival.
As Bandhavgarh’s wild tiger numbers continue to increase, more space and more prey are vital for the future survival of the growing population. Tigers4Ever waterholes play a key role in stabilising prey numbers too. When there is a shortage of water, the deer and other prey animals don’t breed resulting in less food for more predators. Tigers then start to kill each other as they fight over the prey which is around. Tiger cub survival rates are still around 90-95% (much higher than the 50% average for wild tigers), this is good news for the wild tiger population, but also increases the need for better habitat, more water and more prey.
SixteenMore Locations where Waterholes are Needed
班达迦的野生老虎数量继续grow against the odds as India has witnessed unprecedented increases in wild tiger poaching over the last two years. To sustain this growth, more permanent wildlife waterholes are needed in areas which can support both prey and predator dispersal. Sixteen such locations have now been identified and work is underway to determine the availability of underground water sources or sites suitable for future rainwater harvesting projects.
We will really have our work cut out to provide 16 more wildlife waterholes at the rate which they are needed. Your fundraising support and donations over the last few years has been amazing for both our anti-poaching patrols, where we quadrupled our patrolling during the monsoon season to address the increased risk (https://goto.gg/28767); and our waterholes project (https://goto.gg/34315). We hope that we can raise sufficient funds (£15000/$17000) each year to be able to provide at least three small-medium sized waterholes annually. It will take us 5 years at that rate to provide the sixteen waterholes needed, but we know that we’re in the middle of a cost of living crisis and fundraising will be hard.
Our experience has shown us that the best way to reduce the Human-Wildlife conflict is to prevent the prey animals from straying towards the villages in search of water. It is for this reason that we prioritise our permanent wildlife waterholes projects as the drought season begins. We have ensured permanent wildlife water sources are available at two more locations within the next month, which will bring the total number of Tigers4Ever waterholes completed in 2022 to seven, and to fourteen in total. When prey animals have adequate water and food, the predators including tigers and leopards will have enough food too. When we complete our 14thwaterhole project, the number of wild tigers benefitting from Tigers4Ever waterholes will increase to at least 78. Our next target will be to put a larger waterhole in place where it will help to reduce human-elephant conflict and benefit up to 6 more wild tigers.
Giving Tuesday Bonus Day
This year the GlobalGiving Giving Tuesday Bonus Day matched funding campaign will be on 29 November 2022, when your online donations to our waterhole project will qualify for a share of $1.2million in bonus matched funds on the first US$2500 (£2275) of your donations on the day. The more donations we get, the greater the percentage of matched bonus funds we will receive, thus even the smallest donations can have a huge impact on the day. Imagine if 250 of you wonderful people read this report and donate just £10 ($13) each we will raise one third of the funds needed towards our next waterhole:https://goto.gg/34315。With bonus matched funds too we’d be well on the way towards ensuring that wild tigers, their prey and wild elephants have water to drink as the 2023 drought season arrives!
Bonus matched funds mean that your larger donations will have an increased impact too, especially at a time when the wild tigers will desperately need your help to survive another drought:https://goto.gg/34315。It would be amazing if during the Giving Tuesday Bonus Day campaign we could raise a total of £7500 (US$8500) so that we can create wildlife waterholes at two seasonal sites and bring the total number of wild tigers benefitting from Tigers4Ever waterholes to around 90 including cubs.
If you feel able to help during the GivingTuesday Campaign (29 November 2022) our friends at GlobalGiving are giving us the chance to gain a bonus matched funds all day; so it’s a great time to donate because whatever you donate online on the day is sure to have a great impact for wild tigers:https://goto.gg/34315。
Permanent wildlife waterholes are essential to prevent future tiger-tiger and human-animal conflict, which arise from increased wild tiger numbers, and better cub survival rates. There are currently more tiger cubs (51) in Bandhavgarh than the total number of wild tigers (37) counted in the Tiger Census (in 2010) when Tigers4Ever started working there, thus we need to do everything we can to prevent wild tiger deaths due to retaliatory response to human-wildlife conflict. One waterhole (our 17th) is nowhere near enough to reduce the conflict caused by wild tigers encroaching on the territories of other tigers and humans, so we need your help to be able to do at least two more waterholes too,before it is too late for the wild tigers andother wildlife://www.tuuhangaido.com/projects/water-for-bandhavgarhs-tigers/。在你的帮助下,我们可以筹集到足够的钱start work on another two waterholes whichsave another 16 wild tigers including cubs。
You Can Help us to Make a Huge Difference Right Now
This year GlobalGiving is pledginga 100% bonus in matched fundson new monthly donations which are continued for at least 4 months. So now really is the time to give monthly, if you can, to make the most of your donation!//www.tuuhangaido.com/projects/water-for-bandhavgarhs-tigers/?show=recurring。
Our Challenges Ahead
We need to maximise our efforts to keep wild tigers safe right now. Our anti-poaching patrols are tripled to address the risk of retaliatory poisoning and poaching. With your help, we can complete two more waterhole projects soon, whichwill help to keep at least 16 wild tigers safe.
Here are some of the ways your donations will help us to save wild tigers:
- £10 ($13) per month for a year will help to drill 12 metres (39 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- a one-off £20 ($26) gift will help to drill 2 metres (6.5 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- a one-off £40 ($52) gift will help to drill 4 metres (13 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- £90 ($117) can pay a team of workers to prepare a site for a new waterhole for wild tigers;
- £120 ($169) can cover the cost of labour and preparation of a 1.5 metre wide by 1.5 metre deep elephant proof moat to protect a solar-pump system;
- £2000 ($2600) will facilitate the creation and lining of a larger waterhole at one location.
Every donation, no matter how large or small, helps us increase and protect the tiger population. Thank you on behalf of the wild tigers, which you are helping us to keep safe; and on behalf of the wider tiger community in Bandhavgarh, which benefits from providing equipment and labour for our waterhole projects. We couldn’t do this without you, thanks to you, the wild tigers can live peacefully and those who live beside them can protect their livelihoods.
Any and all donations are welcomehttps://goto.gg/34315。
If you can’t afford to donate perhaps you could become a Tigers4Ever fundraiser, here://www.tuuhangaido.com/dy/v2/fundraisers/start/?fundraiser.projids=34315and ask your friends, colleagues and family to donate to your fundraiser to help us keep wild tigers safe.
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Thank you for your incredible support as we fight to give more wild tigers a wild future. As I write this report there is good news, exciting news and some concern. The good news is that we have been able to provide year round water at another wildlife waterhole, this time in the Dhamokhar buffer area. Work is underway to complete construction at another site in the Panpatha Buffer, which when complete will bring the total number of wildlife waterholes funded by Tigers4Ever to thirteen.
The exciting news is that we are now looking for expertise in Rainwater Harvesting projects to enable us to provide year-round water for wildlife at sites where the elevation and/or terrain make the location unsuitable for a borewell pump system. If we can find the necessary expertise in the next couple of weeks, it may enable us to put in two such systems prior to the onset of the monsoon rains. If successful, you will have helped Tigers4Ever to provide water for wild tigers and other animals at fifteen locations, which we think is amazing. Thank you.
The concerning news is about the monsoon rains; once again the start is delayed with heavy rains expected from 15 July. It is a concern because 12 years ago when we started to work in Bandhavgarh, it wasn’t unusual for the monsoon rains to arrive around 15 June! This is concerning because as the monsoon rains arrive later each year and sometimes end early, there isn’t enough rainfall to replenish rivers, lakes and streams. Worst affected are the seasonal rivers, streams and ponds which will dry up in a matter of a couple of months when not fully replenished. For this reason, together with the drilling and accessibility issues encountered with recent attempts to provide year-round water in the Tala zone of Bandhavgarh, we are prioritising our search for expertise in rainwater harvesting projects.
The wild elephants have continued to bring us new challenges both in protecting solar pump systems and water pipelines at our existing and new waterhole sites. We continue to try a variety of solutions to elephant-proof each location as “the one size fits all” solutions definitely don’t work, in our experience.
Tiger and Elephant Numbers Grow
The latest tiger census figures are being finalised ready for publication at the International Tiger Forum (Tiger Summit) in September 2022. Early indications suggest that Bandhavgarh’s wild tiger numbers have increased again, since the 2018 count. We’re amazed at this achievement against the odds given the significant increases in India’s wild tiger poaching over the last two years. We really appreciate all your fundraising support and donations over this period for our anti-poaching patrols, as we’ve quadrupled our patrolling for the monsoon season to address this increased risk (https://goto.gg/28767). Wild elephant numbers have almost trebled since the herd first arrived in Bandhavgarh, having been displaced from their Chhattisgarh home by mining activity.
Tiger cub mortality continues to be at 90-95% (well above the 50% average for wild tiger populations), which is good news for the wild tiger population, but increases the need for better habitat and more prey. Without sufficient prey or habitat, both Tiger-Tiger and Human-Tiger conflict increases, often resulting in loss of life. In recent weeks, this conflict has increased as food for both prey and predators is harder to find in the forest. Wildlife searching for food inevitably wanders into villages where herbivores eat the crops and predators eat the livestock leaving angry villagers without food or vital income sources. Prompt action is essential in such cases to prevent the setting of snares traps and baited carcasses to eliminate the intruding wild animals and save the farmers’ livelihoods.
Our experience has shown us that the best way to reduce the Human-Wildlife conflict is to prevent the prey animals from straying towards the villages in search of water. It is for this reason that we have prioritised our permanent wildlife waterholes projects over the last six months. In this time, we have ensured permanent wildlife water sources are available at five more locations and we’re currently working on the sixth. When prey animals have adequate water and food, the predators including tigers and leopards will have enough food too. When we complete our 13thwaterhole project, the number of wild tigers benefitting from Tigers4Ever waterholes will increase to at least 71. Our next target will be to put rainwater harvesting step waterhole systems in places with high altitude and those where the underground water table is too difficult to access, if we are able to do this at the two planned locations, at least 16 more wild tigers will benefit.
Whilst the wild elephants continue to benefit from our 12 wildlife waterholes, they continue to be the greatest perpetrators of human-wildlife conflict with their destruction of both property and crops. As a result, we to tailor the mechanism for elephant-proofing our solar-pump systems to the type of terrain involved as the deep wide moat system is best suited to rocky terrains, and chilli pepper or bee-hive fencing is suited to all locations. As a matter of course, we have buried all of our existing and new waterhole feeder pipes at least 1 metre (39 inches) beneath the ground to prevent wild elephants from unearthing and damaging them.
Our recent and current focus has been on providing year-round water at seasonal waterhole locations to try to prevent the dispersal of wild animals in the drought season, to ultimately reduce Human-Wildlife conflict.
GlobalGiving Bonus Day
This year the GlobalGiving Bonus Day matched funding campaign will be on 20 July 2022, when your online donations of US$100 (£82) and above to our waterhole project will qualify for up to 50% in bonus matched funds on the first US$1000 (£820) of your donations on the day (whilst matched funding lasts). This means that your larger donations will have an increased impact at a time when wild tigers desperately need your helphttps://goto.gg/34315。Although you are more than welcome to donate smaller amounts but these won’t qualify for matched bonus funds on the day. A further Little by Little matched funding campaign will take place in September 2022 when 50% matched funding will be available on donations up to US$50 (£38). During the July Bonus Day campaign we hope to raise a total of £2500 (US$3050) so that we can create rainwater harvesting step systems at two further seasonal sites bringing the total number of wild tigers benefitted to around 87 including cubs.
If you feel able to help during this Campaign (20 July 2022) our friends at GlobalGiving are giving us the chance to gain a bonus matched funds whilst funds last on the day; so it’s a great time to donate because whatever you donate online on the day is sure to have a great impact for wild tigers:https://goto.gg/34315。
Human-Wildlife Conflict Continues to be a Growing Problem
Conflict between humans and wild animals is a major problem across the globe, and India is no exception. The damage and destruction caused by a variety of wild animals to
property and even to human life is a real and significant danger to many communities. Wild animals often are often killed, captured, or otherwise harmed in retaliation; as a result and thus human-wildlife conflict is a significant threat to the future survival of many species including wild tigers. Tigers4Ever views human-animal conflict as a priority issue for its work to give wild tigers a wild future, which is why we need your help to deliver solutions to reduce the conflict.
栖息地的丧失和人口迅速增长的公司rease the pressure on the last remaining pristine wild tiger habitat, and as the wild tiger population increases so does Tiger-Tiger and Human-Wildlife conflict. We have almost reached a saturation point where we’ve provided as many permanent wildlife waterholes filled by solar borewell pumps as the current forest habitat can support. But this doesn’t tell the whole story, as some locations are desperately in need of wildlife waterholes but terrain and elevation make them unsuitable for solar powered pump systems. As mentioned above, we are considering rainwater harvest systems at these sites, but we must act quickly as the monsoon rainy season is short and we only have one to two months to complete the work if we are to fill the waterholes this year.
We recently conducted a survey of forest areas in the buffer zone around Bandhavgarh to identify sites which have been denuded by forest fires and historical logging, as areas for a new tree planting initiative. A proposal has been submitted to plant up to 1600 trees per hectare at one of these sites to improve existing forest habitat and thus reduce human-wildlife conflict. We hope to launch our forest rehabilitation project to work alongside our waterhole project, to deliver new solutions to human-wildlife and Tiger-Tiger conflict, in the next few months.
Right now our focus is on providing permanent water for the wild animals to mitigate the impact of drought and reduce the risk of human-wildlife conflict. We hope this year during the July Bonus Day Campaign (20 July 2022) you will help us to give wild tigers the gift of life with a donation at:https://goto.gg/34315so we can start work to provide permanent water for wild tigers at two more locations in Bandhavgarh too. Remember that your gift during this campaign will have a greater impact if it is $100 (£82) or more it helps us to gain bonus matched funding from GlobalGiving on the first US$1000 (£820) of your donation, thank you.
Permanent wildlife waterholes are essential to prevent future tiger-tiger and human-animal conflict, which arise from increased wild tiger numbers, and better cub survival rates. There are currently more tiger cubs (51) in Bandhavgarh than the total number of wild tigers (37) counted in the Tiger Census (in 2010) when Tigers4Ever started working there, thus we need to do everything we can to prevent wild tiger deaths due to retaliatory response to human-wildlife conflict. One waterhole (our 13th) is nowhere near enough to reduce the conflict caused by wild tigers encroaching on the territories of other tigers and humans, so we need your help to be able to do at least two more waterholes too,before it is too late for the wild tigers andother wildlife://www.tuuhangaido.com/projects/water-for-bandhavgarhs-tigers/。在你的帮助下,我们可以筹集到足够的钱start work on another two waterholes which will benefit another 16 wild tigers including cubs.
You Can Help us to Make a Huge Difference Right Now
This year GlobalGiving is pledginga 100% bonus in matched fundson new monthly donations which are continued for at least 4 months. So now really is the time to give monthly, if you can, to make the most of your donation!//www.tuuhangaido.com/projects/water-for-bandhavgarhs-tigers/?show=recurring。
We need to raise £2500 (US$3050) to start work at two new rainwater harvesting step waterhole sites, so if just 25 of our supporters each donate £100 (£135) during the Little by Little campaign we’ll raise enough to start work as soon as our work at the thirteenth waterhole site is completed,新疆圆柏g the lives of at least 16 more wild tigersin the processhttps://goto.gg/34315。
Our Challenges Ahead
We need to maximise our efforts to keep wild tigers safe right now. Our anti-poaching patrols are quadrupled to address the increased risk of retaliatory poisoning and poaching. With your help, we can complete two more waterhole projects soon, which in totalwill help to keep at least 16 wild tigers safe.
Here are some of the ways your donations will help us to save wild tigers:
- £10 ($14) per month for a year will help to drill 12 metres (39 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- a one-off £20 ($28) gift will help to drill 2 metres (6.5 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- a one-off £40 ($56) gift will help to drill 4 metres (13 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- £90 ($126) can pay a team of workers to prepare a site for a new waterhole for wild tigers;
- £120 ($170) can cover the cost of labour and preparation of a 1.5 metre wide by 1.5 metre deep elephant proof moat to protect a solar-pump system;
- £2000 ($2700) will facilitate the creation and lining of step waterholes for rainwater harvesting at one location.
Every donation, no matter how large or small, helps us increase and protect the tiger population. Thank you on behalf of the wild tigers, which you are helping us to keep safe; and on behalf of the wider tiger community in Bandhavgarh, which benefits from providing equipment and labour for our waterhole projects. We couldn’t do this without you, thanks to you, the wild tigers can live peacefully and those who live beside them can protect their livelihoods.
Any and all donations are welcomehttps://goto.gg/34315。
If you can’t afford to donate perhaps you could become a Tigers4Ever fundraiser, here://www.tuuhangaido.com/dy/v2/fundraisers/start/?fundraiser.projids=34315and ask your friends, colleagues and family to donate to your fundraiser to help us keep wild tigers safe.
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Thank you for your continued support as we fight to give more wild tigers a wild future. The unseasonably cold weather has now made way for the hot summer months and the onset of the drought season in Bandhavgarh. Our team in India has been extremely busy since our last report bringing the total number of Tigers4Ever permanent waterholes for wild tigers to eleven. Thanks to your generosity and some grant funding we have completed 3 more waterhole projects since our last report and are currently undertaking surveys to determine the optimum drilling site for our twelfth waterhole project. The wild elephants have continued to bring us new challenges both in protecting solar pump systems and water pipelines at our existing and new waterhole sites. We have tried a variety of solutions to elephant-proof each location as “the one size fits all” solutions never seem to work, in our experience.
More Tigers Can Lead to More Conflict
The latest tiger census counting process is underway and we expect the number of wild tigers in Bandhavgarh to increase again when compared to 2018. This is even more remarkable given the significant increases in wild tiger poaching throughout India during the pandemic over the last two years. We’re really grateful for all your help in fundraising for our anti-poaching patrols as we’ve had to triple our patrolling to address this increased risk.
虽然老虎幼崽死亡率的改善(to 90-95% from 50%) is good news for the wild tiger population, it also presents many new challenges as the growing cubs need more food and new territories of their own. When there is insufficient prey or habitat the incidence of both Tiger-Tiger and Human-Tiger conflict inevitably increases. This always comes to a head as the drought season takes hold because prey disperses in search of water and tigers follow in search of food. These searches take animals into villages where they eat the crops and when the tigers follow, they kill cattle and other livestock leaving angry villagers without food or vital income sources. If prompt action doesn’t follow, snares traps and baited carcasses are set to eliminate the intruding wild animals and save the farmers’ livelihoods.
The best way to reduce the Human-Wildlife conflict is to prevent the prey animals from straying towards the villages in search of water. This is why our permanent wildlife waterholes are so important, especially at this time of year. If the prey animals have adequate water and food, so will the predators including tigers and leopards. When we recently completed our 11thwaterhole project we increased the number of wild tigers benefitting from Tigers4Ever waterholes to 56. If we can complete our 12thwaterhole in the next month, the number of wild tigers which will benefit will increase to 63.
Wild elephants are also benefitting our recently completed Mahaman waterhole project, whilst a nomadic young adult male has established his new territory in an area which benefits from our completed Kisanhai waterhole project. At our Kisanhai waterhole project we’re trialling a new system of elephant-proofing the solar-pump system with a deep and wide moat around the solar-pump site. We have also buried feeder pipes to the waterhole 1 metre (39 inches) beneath the ground to prevent wild elephants from unearthing and damaging them.
Our latest waterhole project, at Kamtamadhi, completed just a few weeks ago, has helped to rejuvenate a natural marshland which is also benefitting many wetland birds in addition to deer, wild boar, elephants and reptiles. This is a vital boost especially after the devastating forest fires at the end of March 2021. Our recent focus has been on providing year-round water at seasonal waterhole locations to try to prevent the dispersal of wild animals in the drought season, as this would inevitably lead to Human-Wildlife conflict.
Little by Little
This year the GlobalGiving Little By Little matched funding campaign is later than last year as it will be in April. Between 04 April and 08 April 2022, your online donations to our waterhole project will qualify for 50% in bonus matched funds on the first US$50 (£38) of your donations throughout the week. This means that your smaller donations will have an increased impact at a time when wild tigers desperately need waterhttps://goto.gg/34315。Although you are more than welcome to donate larger amounts too as this year there won’t be a matched funding campaign around Earth Day and Climate Action so our waterhole project will be our primary focus at the beginning of April. During this campaign we hope to raise a total of £5000 (US$7000) so that we can put solar powered bore-well pumps at two further seasonal waterhole sites bringing the total number of wild tigers benefitted to around 75 including cubs.
如果你觉得能够帮助在这个小被点燃tle Campaign (04 - 08 April 2022) our friends at GlobalGiving are giving us the chance to gain a bonus matched funds throughout the week; so it’s a great time to donate because whatever you donate online on the day is sure to be worth more and will have a great impact for wild tigers:https://goto.gg/34315。
Human-Wildlife Conflict is a Growing Problem
Conflict between humans and wild animals are a serious problem in many parts of the world, and India is no exception. The damage and destruction caused by a variety of wild animals to
property and even to human life is a real and significant danger to many communities. Wild animals often are often killed, captured, or otherwise harmed in retaliation, as a result and thus human-wildlife conflicts is a significant threat to the future survival of many species including wild tigers. Tigers4Ever views human-animal conflict as a priority issue for its work to give wild tigers a wild future, which is why we need your help to deliver solutions to reduce the conflict.
栖息地的丧失和人口迅速增长的公司rease the pressure on the last remaining pristine wild tiger habitat, and as the wild tiger population increases so does Tiger-Tiger and Human-Wildlife conflict. We will reach a saturation point where we have provided as many permanent wildlife waterholes as the current forest habitat can support, but we still have some way to go yet. We’re already looking at other ways to address the conflict issues by improving the existing forest habitat to support increased prey numbers and reducing the dependence on scarce forest resources by the tigers’ human neighbours, to help sustain the existing forest cover. Later this year, we hope to launch a forest rehabilitation project to work alongside our waterhole project to deliver new solutions to human-wildlife and Tiger-Tiger conflict.
Right now our focus is on providing permanent water for the wild animals to mitigate the impact of drought and reduce the risk of spontaneous forest fires starting where no water remains. We hope this year during the Little by Little Campaign (04 - 08 April 2022) you will help us to give wild tigers the gift of life with a donation at:https://goto.gg/34315so we can start work to provide permanent water for wild tigers at two more locations in Bandhavgarh too. Remember that your gift during this campaign will have a greater impact however large or small because it helps us to gain bonus matched funding from GlobalGiving on the first US$50 (£38) of your donation, thank you.
More permanent wildlife waterholes are essential to prevent future tiger-tiger and human-animal conflicts, which arise from increased wild tiger numbers, and better cub survival rates. There are currently more tiger cubs (41) in Bandhavgarh than the total number of wild tigers (37) counted in the Tiger Census (in 2010) when Tigers4Ever started working there, thus we need to do everything we can to prevent wild tiger deaths due to retaliatory response to human-wildlife conflict. One waterhole (our 12th) is nowhere near enough to reduce the conflict caused by wild tigers encroaching on the territories of other tigers and humans, so we need your help to be able to do at least two more waterholes too,before it is too late for the wild tigers andother wildlife://www.tuuhangaido.com/projects/water-for-bandhavgarhs-tigers/。在你的帮助下,我们可以筹集到足够的钱start work on another two waterholes which will benefit another 12 wild tigers including cubs.
You Can Help us to Make a Huge Difference Right Now
This year GlobalGiving is pledginga 100% bonus in matched fundson new monthly donations which are continued for at least 4 months. So now really is the time to give monthly, if you can, to make the most of your donation!//www.tuuhangaido.com/projects/water-for-bandhavgarhs-tigers/?show=recurring。
We need to raise £5000 (US$7000) to start work at two more new waterhole sites, so if just 140 of our supporters each donate US$50 (£38) during the Little by Little campaign we’ll raise enough to start work as soon as our work at the twelfth waterhole site is completed,新疆圆柏g the lives of at least 12 more wild tigersin the processhttps://goto.gg/34315。
Our Challenges Ahead
We need to maximise our efforts to keep wild tigers safe right now. Our anti-poaching patrols are still tripled to address the increased risk of retaliatory poisoning and poaching. With your help, we can complete three waterhole projects soon, which in totalwill help to keep at least 19 wild tigers safe.
Here are some of the ways your donations will help us to save wild tigers:
- £10 ($14) per month for a year will help to drill 12 metres (39 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- a one-off £20 ($28) gift will help to drill 2 metres (6.5 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- a one-off £40 ($56) gift will help to drill 4 metres (13 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- £90 ($126) can pay a team of workers to prepare a site for a new waterhole for wild tigers;
- £120 ($170) can cover the cost of labour and preparation of a 1.5 metre wide by 1.5 metre deep elephant proof moat to protect a solar-pump system;
- £1700 ($2400) will drill and line a deep bore-well to access underground water.
Every donation, no matter how large or small, helps us increase and protect the tiger population. Thank you on behalf of the wild tigers, which you are helping us to keep safe; and on behalf of the wider tiger community in Bandhavgarh, which benefits from providing equipment and labour for our waterhole projects. We couldn’t do this without you, thanks to you, the wild tigers can live peacefully and those who live beside them can protect their livelihoods.
Any and all donations are welcomehttps://goto.gg/34315。
If you can’t afford to donate perhaps you could become a Tigers4Ever fundraiser, here://www.tuuhangaido.com/dy/v2/fundraisers/start/?fundraiser.projids=34315and ask your friends, colleagues and family to donate to your fundraiser to help us keep wild tigers safe.
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Thank you for your continued support as we fight to give more wild tigers a wild future. The monsoon rains have now made way for some unseasonably cold weather in Bandhavgarh as the impacts of climate change continue to present us with new challenges each day. Our team in India has told us that they have never experienced an October quite so cold in their lives, so winter uniforms for our anti-Poaching Patrols are already in use.
We have some good news too, after months of delays due to early monsoon rainfall, unstable roads and COVID’s delta variant, we are ready to complete the work at the Mahaman waterhole next week. This is a very important large seasonal wildlife waterhole is used by at least eight tigers, wild elephants and countless other animals. Very soon, this will become a permanent wildlife waterhole thanks to your help, as we complete the installation of a solar powered borewell pump system and soak away channels. This will pump water to the surface from underground channels which reduces water loss due to evaporation as cool water is constantly pumped into the waterhole with any excess returning to the underground streams via soak away systems, which in turn provides more water when needed. We’re delighted to say that this work will be completed before the onset of the hot weather and accompanying drought season in the New Year.
Our minds have already turned to our next waterhole project, after all we did hope to complete the Mahaman waterhole in 2020-21 but were hampered by the COVID pandemic and associated lockdown restrictions before the weather decided to challenge us too. We’re just £2000 (US$2800) short of being able to complete another similar project at seasonal waterhole (or £6500 (US$9230) short of target to build a large waterhole with solar pump system at a new location). Given the current situation worldwide, we’re hoping to raise the £2000 (US$2800) by the end of December 2021 and will defer the larger project to give us more time to raise the necessary funds. If you feel able to help, this Giving Tuesday (30 November 2021) our friends at GlobalGiving are giving us the chance to gain a share of US$1million in bonus matched funds on the day; so it’s a great time to donate because whatever you donate online on the day is sure to be worth more and will have a greater impact:https://goto.gg/34315。
Coming Full Circle
Way back in 2007, two of the Tigers4Ever Co-Founders: myself (Corinne) and David Taylor-Smith encountered a young male tiger, pictured below, sitting by the side of the road in the early morning sunlight. At the time, they didn’t know that this young 22 month old sub-adult tiger would grow to be Bandhavgarh’s largest Alpha male with his territory spanning all four core areas of the national park. This was the young Bamera, a majestic and fearless tiger. What we did know was that without water, the chances of this young tiger and many others like him surviving to adulthood were slim. On our return to the UK, we were determined to make a difference for this young tiger. How hard could it be to raise £10500 (US$14910) to build a permanent waterhole for wild tigers? After all, everybody loves tigers; they are the world’s favourite animal, etc. Well it was a lot harder than we had imagined. After almost 3 years of trying to raise the funds to get another charity to build the waterhole and failing, we decided with Naomi, Steve and Andy to establish Tigers4Ever, in June 2010, and complete the quest ourselves. We had a few hiccups along the way, but eventually we raised sufficient funds for our first waterhole (of 8) for wild tigers.
我们的第一个项目是在Arharia水潭假名re our solar pump system delivered year round water in an otherwise parched area of the forest, more importantly at least 5 tigers benefitted immediately. The Arharia male, son of Bamera the tiger we had seen back in 2007, was one of the tigers to benefit. He is pictured above in one of the manmade waterholes filled by our solar pump system. A doting father to his tiny cubs, he would spend hours even days in the territory whilst their mother was away hunting or taking a break. When tragedy struck and the cubs’ mother was poached, our waterholes helped to save the lives of the 3 young cubs and ensure that they reached adulthood. Arharia went on to produce many more cubs including four with the famous tigress, Solo (BBC Tiger Dynasties made her famous), who became Arharia’s favourite tigress after the death of Kankati II. Despite finding new females to mate, Arharia always liked to spend time relaxing in the Tigers4Ever waterholes, he even added our waterholes in the Rajbehra territory to his widening domain.
这不是不寻常的Arharia被看到的seven waterholes filled by Tigers4Ever Solar borewell pump systems, Royal (Bengal Tiger) seal of approval for our work indeed. The legacy we had planned for the young Bamera is providing safe water and habitat for his offspring and grandchildren too. Yesterday, we received the sad news that Arharia, also known locally in Bandhavgarh as Bamera’s son, had died. At almost eleven years old, he wasn’t the oldest of wild tigers but his demeanour hadn’t been the same since the death of Solo and two of his cubs last year. He had recently recovered from a broken leg; sustained in a territorial fight with a younger would be alpha male challenger, so we had hoped for a few more years and cubs. Sadly it wasn’t to be, another territorial fight proved one too many and Arharia lay down in his jungle home for the last time as his life ebbed away. We will always remember him fondly, like we do his father Bamera, but at the same time we know that we must keep fighting, with your help, for those tigers which remain and the descendants of Bamera and Arharia yet to be born.
Giving Tuesday
For those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, we hope that it will be a joyous, peaceful and healthy occasion this year. We know that it marks the start of events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday too. We hope this year on Giving Tuesday you will help us to give wild tigers the gift of life with a donation at:https://goto.gg/34315so we can start work to provide permanent water for wild tigers at a tenth location in Bandhavgarh too. Remember that your gift on Giving Tuesday will have a greater impact however large or small because it helps us to gain bonus matched funding from GlobalGiving’s Share a US$1million fund, thank you.
More permanent wildlife waterholes are essential to prevent future tiger-tiger and human-animal conflicts, which arise from increased wild tiger numbers, and better cub survival rates. With more than 41 tiger cubs bornduring the pandemic, (which is 4 more tigers than were counted in total in Bandhavgarh’s Tiger Census (37 tigers) in 2010 when Tigers4Ever started working in Bandhavgarh) we need to do everything we can to prevent more wild tiger deaths. One waterhole is nowhere near enough to reduce the conflict caused by wild tigers encroaching on the territories of others and humans, so we need your help to be able to do at least one more waterhole too,before it is too late for the wild tigers andother wildlife://www.tuuhangaido.com/projects/water-for-bandhavgarhs-tigers/。在你的帮助下,我们可以筹集到足够的钱start work on another waterhole which will benefit another 10 wild tigers including cubs too.
You Can Help us to Make a Huge Difference Right Now
This year GlobalGiving is pledginga 100% bonus in matched fundson new monthly donations which are continued for at least 4 months. So now really is the time to give monthly, if you can, to make the most of your donation!//www.tuuhangaido.com/projects/water-for-bandhavgarhs-tigers/?show=recurring。
We need to raise £2000 (US$2800) to start work at the new waterhole site, so if just 100 of our supporters each donate US$28 (£20) this month we’ll raise enough to start work as soon as the cold weather allows,新疆圆柏g the lives of at least 10 more wild tigersin the processhttps://goto.gg/34315。
Our Challenges Ahead
We need to quadruple our efforts to keep wild tigers safe right now. Our anti-poaching patrols are still tripled to address the increased risk of retaliatory poisoning and poaching of wild tigers. With your help, we can complete our next two waterhole projects soon, which in totalwill help to keep at least 18 wild tigers safe.
Here are some of the ways your donations will help us to save wild tigers:
- £10 ($14) per month for a year will help to drill 12 metres (39 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- a one-off £20 ($28) gift will help to drill 2 metres (6.5 feet) of bore-well to access underground water;
- £80 ($115) can pay a team of workers to prepare a site for a new waterhole for wild tigers;
- £400 ($570) will fund 6% of a solar system to bring underground water to the surface;
- £950 ($1400) will drill and line a bore-well to access underground water.
Every donation, no matter how large or small, helps us increase and protect the tiger population. Thank you on behalf of the wild tigers, which you are helping us to keep safe; and on behalf of the wider tiger community in Bandhavgarh, which benefits from providing equipment and labour for our waterhole projects; we couldn’t do this without you. Thanks to you, the tigers can live peacefully and those who live beside them can protect their livelihoods.
Any and all donations are welcomehttps://goto.gg/34315。
If you can’t afford to donate perhaps you could become a Tigers4Ever fundraiser, here://www.tuuhangaido.com/dy/v2/fundraisers/start/?fundraiser.projids=34315and ask your friends, colleagues and family to donate to your fundraiser to help us keep wild tigers safe.
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