4th March 2023 – by Dr Dominic Phillips
Our last day at Sariska – can you believe it! And it’s presentation day. There was definitely an air of apprehension and tension as everyone prepared to give their 7-minute…
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28th February 2023 – by Dr Pradeep Mishra
Day 13 of the IWAH training focused on restraint in wild animals. The participants were divided into small groups and each group took turns in to understand the procedure, planning…
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26th February 2023 – by Dr Kartik Chaudhary
We began our day with yoga and positive energy in the morning. Then, Dr Sandeep Gupta instructed us on wildlife forensics, during which time we learned about wildlife trade, sampling…
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25th February 2023 – by Dr Ian Anderson
Day 10 started for some of us with Pat’s early morning yoga session in the garden, watched as always by the grey langurs. As the day’s topic was Aquatic animal…
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24th February 2023 – by Dr Ajeet Kumar Pandey
Day of Investigation. This is an important day for us. Investigation of disease in national parks is an important component of wildlife-human-livestock interfaces. In the morning Tony Saisbury divided all…
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23rd February 2023 – by Dr Kimia Safaei
7:30am This is the dreamy view I wake up to every day. Today, the Yoga class was held in the queen’s corner central area because last night some predator was…
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21st February 2023 – by Dr Patricia Shuen
The human-wildlife interface and protected area management/ endangered species management Woke up to the sounds of warning calls A predator is around! Morning chai in Queen’s Corner courtyard followed by…
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20th February 2023 – by Dr Sujit Kolangath
Tracking Tigress ‘Uncertainty’ If I have learnt anything about wildlife in my last years of my engagement it is, ‘Wildlife is synonymous with uncertainty’. Yes ‘uncertainty’ is what I associate…
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18th February 2023 – by Dr Amit Oad
Early in the morning of day 3 on the IWAH course, we entered Sariska Tiger Reserve, located in Rajasthan, India. We took open jeeps with our instructors guiding us on…
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9th April 2022 – by Dr Mayur Kumar
The 12th day of the training. All through our course we had learnt about different taxa, different species within each taxa and their similarities and differences. The differences are inter-specific…
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8th April 2022 – by Dr Sanjeet Kumar and Dr Singray Kullu
A Field Training on Immobilization of Wild Animals. April 08, 2022, the 11th day of the course and our day of reckoning. The time had come to see for real…
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7th April 2022 – by Dr. Prabhat Basumataray & Dr. Nisha Raichel
Wild animal immobilization is as much an art as it is a science and we got first-hand experience today! 7th of April 2022, our 10th day at Sariska Tiger Reserve.…
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5th April 2022 – by Dr Prateek Anand, Dr Raj Kumar Sharma and Dr Tarun Kumar Garg
Till today all our experiences with herps (which we identified as creepy crawlies) were filled with misconceptions and “stories” that have come down the ages in our lives. Today we…
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4th April 2022 – by Dr Ashish Kumar
Day 8th of this course was a little bit relaxing because of no morning field activity. So all participants woke up late and after getting ready, we went straight to…
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3rd April 2022 – by Dr Karan Sehgal
I started my journey from the youngest mountain ranges of Shivalik in Himachal Pradesh ( house of all the deities- Devbhoomi) to the oldest one that is Aravali 's in…
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2nd April 2022 – by Dr Archana Saraf
We started our day in the morning with fresh energy, all set to imbibe the information which will be provided to us. It started with Dr. Sandeep Gupta giving us…
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1st April 2022 – Dr Ram pravesh Ram and Dr Bablu Sundi
Our day started with lots of excitement and anticipation as we were going for a tiger safari. Everyone was really eager to see a tiger and it took us around…
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31st March 2022 – Dr Anshul Chandel & Dr Shivanand Kanshi
The day started with a hot cup of tea and an early morning activity for collection of data for distance sampling on a line transect at 6:00 am. The activity…
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30th March 2022 – Dr Sahu
The third day of the course started with a field visit to the tiger reserve led by Dr Bilal Habib. We saw pugmarks of a leopard and a tiger along…
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29th March 2022 – Dr Amit Kumar & Dr Pankaj Kumar
It was a very beautiful sunny day and the day started with early checkout from the hotel and moving towards KEOLADEO NATIONAL PARK a Ramsar site as well as a…
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28th March 2022 – Dr. Ansar Ahmad & Dr. Vijay Shankar Dubey
First day of our training started with a very beautiful morning and healthy breakfast. We headed towards Bear Conservation Care Centre at Wildlife SOS near Agra. Mr. Baiju Raj. M.…
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2nd April 2021 – (by Manoj Kumar Tony)
Before, writing this blog,I would like to wish everyone on this auspicious day of Good Friday. The 13th day of our course started with a beautiful morning and a cup…
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1st April 2021 – (by Dalip Kumar Baitha)
As I start my blog, I would like to inform you that today is April fool's day, I assure you that I would write true and what happened. 😅😅 Secondly,…
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31st March 2021 – (by Rajiv Ranjan)
Today, the eleventh day of our training commenced under the leadership of Dr Parag Nigam, Dr A.B.Srivastava Sir and the young doctor Dr Ankush Dubey. Live Animal capture was the…
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30th March 2021 – (by Bikram Kumar)
Day 10th of the training started with interesting use of Bisleri water for our morning duties as some temporary electrical fault led to non-filling of the water tank that resumed…
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29th March 2021 – (by Neeraj Narayan)
Celebrating Festival of Colours- The Holi. A beautiful Morning started with all of the Course Participants and faculty getting together for celebrating the festival of Colours. Pink, Blue, Green, yellow,…
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28th March 2021 – (by Raj Kapur)
The morning started with a warm cup of tea served in queen's corner. Today the days was special for all of us as we got an opportunity to see, understand…
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27th March 2021 – (by Raj Kapur)
Today morning started with a beautiful song to commemorate the cool breeze that I kept humming due to the beautiful cool breeze that struck my room door. After finishing my…
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26th March 2021 – (by Neeraj Narayan)
A Very Good Morning from the Serenity of Sariska, Today the Day 06th of our applied learning is all about investigative and forensic Wildlife studies. After the morning assembly at…
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25th March 2021 – (by Sanjiv Rajan)
Today, all participants assembled in the lecture theatre at 9 a.m after a sumptuous breakfast. Dr Ruchi Badola, Sr Professor, WII initiated a technical session on the Sustainable Livelihood Approach…
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24th March 2021 – (by Amit Kumar)
After early morning tea with baked savouries, we headed for the last day of transect walk (Triplicate). The early morning sun with a cool breeze and the walk-in wilderness was…
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23rd March 2021 – (by Amit Kumar)
The third day of our field training started with a morning assembly at the queen's corner with tutors. Based on the previous day experience, we proceeded to the field to…
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22nd March 2021 – (by Subodh Kumar)
Today, we dealt with the routine and gathered at the lawn with our course tutor Dr Parag Nigam, Dr Bilal Habib, Dr Bivash Pandav and his team at 6:30 in…
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21st March 2021 – (by Rakesh Kumar)
I woke up at 5 am with all the remaining 9 participants and rush to the Sariska Forest. Our course coordinators Dr Parag Nigam and Dr Bilal Habib guided us…
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8th February 2020 – (by Shiva Sawmy)
After spending my day off exploring the amazing city of Jaipur on the eve, I woke up this morning even more excited, as today marked the start of lectures and…
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6th February 2020 – (by I-Ting Tu)
Almost 2/3 of the IWAH course is gone! Time flies. I have learned so much from the course, especially the practical bits of it really helped me to get the…
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2nd February 2020 – (by Melissa Guzman)
What a day! We spent the day in the field - that is, down the way and behind our Sariska Palace Hotel where we could spread out to complete a…
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2nd February 2020 – (by Renata Snow & G.D.Singh)
New day, new theme! Having spent the first few days focusing on population ecology and yesterday looking at the human-wildlife interface, today we switched gears again to learn about disease…
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1st February 2020 – (by Shona MacAffer)
We awoke to the sounds of prayer, reminding us this was Saturday a Hindi worship day around Sariska national park and that today we would venture into the park to…
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31st January 2020 – (by John Boyle)
Today was a long but rewarding day with an early start at 7am. We collected our GPS units, compasses and range-finders and set off into the park in teams of…
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30th January 2020 – (by Jennifer D’Agostino)
Day 3 of the Interventions in Wild Animal Health course and it was a very full day! We started off the day by walking into the reserve to learn about…
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29th January 2020 – (by Parbat Thapa)
The day started with pleasant sounds of birds in the morning in Sariska Palace Resort. I was very curious about the course and it was like a dream for me…
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31st January 2019 – (by Beatriz Alves)
The day started at 7 am, with a distance sampling field exercise. We were divided into five groups to conduct a foot-based line transect, a methodology applied to estimate animal…
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11th February 2019 – (by Tithipong Plangsangmas)
The schedule for today was “Best practice in wild animal restraint and anaesthesia techniques”. The participants got a chance for hands-on practice restraint of free-living Sambar (Rusa unicolor) and Chital…
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12th February 2019 – (by Genevieve Weaver)
Today was a continuation of the immobilization procedures and techniques from yesterday, but today our target was different, the wild pig Sus scrofa. I was chosen to dart one of the…
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5th February 2019 – (by Tushna Karkaria & Devendra Podhade)
We started our day with an informative lecture on the wildlife-human interface and the importance in the relocation of people living inside protected areas by government-funded incentive-based schemes. Dr Shivani…
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4th February 2019 – (by Melanie Taylor-Saunders)
The students remaining behind at Sariska took advantage of their rest day to have a lay-in, relax and get a head start on their presentations. The students in Jaipur woke…
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8th February 2019 – (by Inga McDermott)
Today the course moved on to discuss the human-wildlife interface and how this can impact disease. After an introductory lecture in the morning, we set off for a field visit…
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