When was the last time you visited a zoo? It’s time to rethink zoos.

A conversation with the Assistant Curator of the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust (MCBT)

Heart of Conservation podcast Ep#23 Show Notes (Edited)

Scroll for show notes. Cover photo courtesy @zoologistambika All photos courtesy: Ambika Yelahanka

I am speaking to Ambika Yelahanka whose has a very enviable job involving lots of animals. Ambika’s has a Masters in Zoo Conservation and a specialization in feline behaviour and reptilian husbandry. She’s the Assistant curator at Madras Crocodile Bank Trust in Chennai. Find out what a day at the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust as Assistant Curator looks like. Ambika explains why enrichment is as important

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Jack’s Story | Tigers4Ever Giving wild tigers a wild future

Jack Tuber is a Seven year old NFT Artist with a passion for wild Tigers.  This is his profile picture on the Voice platform where jack sells his art works.
Jack Tuber is a Seven year old NFT Artist with a passion for wild Tigers

Jack is 7 years old. He loves to draw and animate. Jack loves to create hand drawn characters and bring them to life. He started using drawing books, and has now taken over the family iPad. Jack has become quite a young star in the world of NFT Art and is already making a difference in the world with 10% of his existing NFT sales at: https://www.voice.com/jacktuber being donated to St. Jude.

Jack also loves Tigers, he desperately wants them to have a wild future,

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Training Helps to Save Tigers: One thing a Little Totally different

Children of all ages in Bandhavgarh gather to receive Tigers4Ever education packs
Kids of All Ages Profit

Thanks once more on your superb assist in these difficult occasions. Your donations over the previous few months have helped us to offer schooling packs for an additional 240 youngsters residing with wild tigers. This implies an important deal to the agricultural Indian households whose youngsters have misplaced so many alternatives for schooling whereas the colleges are affected by prolonged closures following the COVID pandemic. Our makes an attempt to resurrect the pop-up nature of faculties in rural villages for youngsters with out entry to state colleges are nonetheless being hampered by useful resource shortages,

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Tigers4Ever Patrols – New Challenges Tigers4Ever Giving wild tigers a wild future

Sub-Adult Male Royal Bengal Tiger Resting on the Road in the wild in Bandhavgarh, India
Sub-Adult Male Tiger Resting on the Road

In these challenging times as the cost of living crisis grips many of us, we are eternally grateful for your continued incredible support, so thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Without your help we’d already be reducing our Anti-Poaching Patrols to ensure that we can keep going throughout 2023. Your generosity helped us to undertake treble-patrolling during the festive season, when poachers often strike. Without your help this additional patrolling would be impossible. Your donations ensure that the growing wild tiger and cubs population is getting the best protection we can

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