Nature Conservation Foundation

The Nature Conservation Foundation is a non-governmental wildlife conservation and research organization based in Mysore, India. They promote the use of science for wildlife conservation in India.

History

The organization was founded in 1996. Their mission is to carry out "science-based and socially responsible conservation".

Activities

The organisation works in a variety of habitats. The high altitude program focuses on human wildlife conflicts and conservation of endangered species such as the snow leopard and the Tibetan gazelle. A livestock insurance program has been launched to prevent retaliatory killings of snow leopards by communities whose livestock were being preyed on.

• . The organisation has partnered with the International Snow Leopard Trust and the Government of India to launch a Project Snow Leopard, similar to Project Tiger for the protection of the wildlife in the Himalayan landscapes. The Project Snow Leopard seeks to address the problem of species declines in the high-altitude Himalayan landscape through evidence-based conservation plans as well as local support. Species such as Snow Leopard, Asiatic Ibex, Argali, Urial, Chiru, Takin, Serow and Musk Deer will particularly benefit from this project.

In 2003, three wildlife biologists from the Foundation reported the Chinese Goral (Nemorhaedus caudatus)...
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