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WildAID KASHMIR

 

allowing threatened species to recover safe levels in Kashmir

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WildAID are now in Kashmir to motivate the public to prevent cruelty to animals and to promote animal welfare and conservation policies that advance the well being of both animal and people. Small, but effective, seeking to prevent further destruction of Kashmir's Wildlife and its habitat and level the playing field by infusing resources and broad-based support into campaigns to protect wildlife, captive-held animals, and biodiversity wildlife rescue and rehabilitation. WildAID Kashmir esro Kashmir Chapter sharing a vision of a world where wildlife and wild places are truly protected.  

 

WildAID  

      Protected Area Network

      Faunal Diversity Monitoring
      Red Data Book
      Wildlife Human Conflict Mgt Programme
      Kashmir Faunal Inventory Programme

      Trans Himalaya Conservation Network

      Species Specific Conservation Programe

      WAID Projects Reports & Activities

 KASHMIR
 

 

WAID KashmirObjectives:

  • Promoting animal welfare & conservation policies. 

  • Providing media, educational, legal and technical support.

  • Research and disseminate wildlife information.

  • Monitor trade in fauna in Kashmir.

Goals: Our goal is simple & specific: to decimate the legal wildlife trade within our lifetimes, allowing threatened species to recover safe levels in Kashmir

  • Creating Public Awareness about animal welfare

  • Adovocating -  legislation for animal protection

  • Planning development areas with safety for animals

  • Protection of wild habitations from adverse impacts

We at WildAID Kashmir, conservation initiative of esro Kashmir, largest wildlife advocacy group in the Valley, are committed to initiate catalytic action to prevent destruction of Kashmir's biodiversity resources, protection of wildlife, and curtailment of animal abuse and exploitation, by providing media, educational, legal, technical, and other forms of support and advocacy.

We inform and educate the public through the media, internet, and publications, about significant issues and legal battles that need immediate attention and support, and we monitor, generate, and disseminate media coverage of important environmental and animal protection issues. We research, analyze, and write about controversial issues that the public needs to mobilize against to protect wildlife and other natural resources from further degradation and depletion.

Kashmir WildAID provides resources, strategic, substantive advice and expertise, to organizations. We help grassroots activists develop and implement legal, organizing, media, and lobbying strategies to achieve the goals. We can achieve greater protection for wildlife in the courts, legislatures and the regulatory agencies, when the public is educated and mobilized to fight against the degradation of wildlife.

The mission of WildAID Kashmir, is also to monitor trade in fauna in Kashmir and support enforcement measures for control of illegal trade into and out of Kashmir. This is done through trade studies, market monitoring, information gathering.

Study Background

The Kashmir region, straddling India, Pakistan, and China is one of the world's most beautiful and remote. But long-standing conflicts are contributing to environmental destruction here. The environment of Kashmir is suffering from severe perturbation and is drastically losing its biodiversity and ecological balance.  Though some problems existed before, 13 years of armed turmoil in Kashmir is destroying its forests, lakes and wildlife. As well as outright bombing destruction in the remote mountains, the ongoing fighting between India and guerillas has made forest work and patrols difficult and dangerous. Endangered wildlife is freely poached and human habitation is destroying the area’s ecosystem, leaving its fate hanging in the balance environmentally as well as politically. Land mines don’t discriminate between humans and animals and unfortunately animals can ‘t sense mine fields and are therefore easily trapped.

 

Help Us : Looking to the future, we need your help to create a world for our children where animals like Kashmir Stag, Snow Leopard and Brown Bear exist safely in the wild, rather than just in captivity or museums. If we don't fight for this future, whole ecosystems will be in jeopardy, many species will become perilously rare, and some will disappear forever. We hope that you will join us in sharing a vision of a world where wildlife and wild places are truly protected.
 

Just Call  Hot Lines Antipoaching  

Minister for Wildlife 9419000697 Chief Wildlife Warden  2462469

 Regional Wildlife Warden  2452429 Wildlife Warden Wetlands 2100278

OR WildAID Kashmir  9906407442

Fragile Kashmir Let the Fact Speaks Itself

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The State has 3 National Parks, I6 Sanctuaries, 26 Reserve Area covering an area of about 16000 sq. kms i.e just about 4.21% of the state is designated as protected area. Of the total 622 endangered plants listed so far in the Red Data Books, 137 occur in the Himalayan region. Of the 137 species, 71 species are from the Eastern Himalaya, 56 species from the Western Himalaya, and ten species are common to both these regions. About 45 % of the mammalian diversity of the state is listed as globally threatened in IUCN Red Data List and 34 % is included in Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. This gives an indication of the status of animals found in the State and the conservation value of the State. 

 

 


 

Report any instances of cruelty to animals to WildAID Kashmir - esro Kashmir Chapter .

Boycott visits to zoos or circuses where animals are treated badly.

Do not hunt or disturb animals when you visit a sanctuary.

Be kind to your pets and to all animals in your neighbourhood.
 

We believe that You CAN make a difference!

 

For Detailed Information Write us at

 eIEN South Asia

   Western Himalaya

   Kashmir

 

   WildAID Kashmir

   Naseembagh

   Srinagar 

   190 006 Kashmir India

  

    waid@esrokashmir.org

 

 
 

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