Wild Seve

Globally, human-wildlife interactions around wildlife reserves frequently result in conflict. This loss of livelihoods and lives directly affects the conservation of wildlife and wild places. Launched in 2015, Wild Seve is an award winning novel conservation intervention that provides timely assistance to people from over 2208 village settlements affected by human-wildlife conflict in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India.

At the Centre for Wildlife studies, our program helps transcend barriers of illiteracy, inherent transactional costs and a complex government process, to provide free and transparent access to ex-gratia compensation for HWC incidents.

Address and document incidents of human-wildlife conflict.

Facilitate access to ex-gratia compensation payments from the government.

Promote the coexistence of wildlife and people around premier wildlife reserves.

The Wild Seve program was designed to build tolerance towards wildlife by expediting action during HWC incidents and rebuilding livelihoods. The program was established in 2015 by the Centre for Wildlife Studies around the national parks of Bandipur and Nagarahole in Karnataka, India.

A toll free helpline advertised throughout the landscape allows farmers to contact Wild Seve staff, who are immediately dispatched to the site. Field assistants document each conflict incident, and file a claim for ex-gratia compensation with the state forest department on behalf of the affected farmer. The Wild Seve program was expanded to other high conflict areas around parks in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.