Alongside, with the team of volunteers, we have also imparted conservation education to ~ 45,000 Delhi citizens, as a mobile conservation education unit through the years of field research. Additionally, we have voluntarily lectured in 5 schools and 3 colleges, and ran a workshop led by Ms. Urvi Gupta, for Department of Science & Technology, Govt. Of India’s initiative INSPIRE.

 

In a nutshell, the future of the project shall have the following three-pronged mandates:

 

(i) Set- up a local, long term study, which may be used as a comprehensive educational guide for the undergraduate and post-graduate wildlife/ecology curriculum in various institutions across the country. The contemporary lessons are imparted using the case studies which are very unfamiliar to the students.

 

(ii) Develop the project as the training base for raptor (as well as general ecological) research and conservation. While the merits of using raptors/other predators as model organisms and umbrella species for research and conservation is well appreciated, the system currently needs a local benchmark to follow and emulate e.g. the study base at the Doñana Biological Station, CSIC, Spain.

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(iii) Explore the positives of discussing conservation in context of a research on public display, which regularly serves hands-on demonstration of field protocols to 100s of onlookers. It will be interesting to study the social impacts of a full scale ecological study in a society which is largely served with foreign research tales through television.