Wildlife and their habitats are threatened by several human-induced causes in different forms. Collation of these threats is difficult considering their multifariousness such as fragmentation, poaching, forest fires, timber smuggling, harvest of forest products and others. These threats cause several short-term and long-term effects on wildlife and it is extremely important to document threats for wildlife conservation and management purposes.

In this regard conservationthreats.org is an effort to help wildlife enthusiasts and members of the public understand threats and their impact on wildlife. It offers citizens a platform to participate in collating information about occurrences of the threats across the forests of Western Ghats in Karnataka. Established by Wildlife Matters Trust, conservationthreats.org roots from a concern over all aspects of threats that challenge the protection of wildlife and to reinforce an understanding of the urgent need to conserve them in their natural habitats.The location mapping of the data and the number of threats that occur in an area are broad indicators of the well-being of forests and protection accorded to the species that inhabit them.


conservationthreats.org is a non-profit website which aims to compile data about wildlife threats and occurrences by contributions of images, videos, news and locations of threats from citizens. We envision this forum which is open to public, media, wildlife enthusiasts and policy makers would help in creating better awareness on conservation issues by mapping (integrated with Google maps) them based on established categories of threats.

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Title Location Date Threat Category
Indian Gazelle (Chinkara) Other Important Wildlife Habitats 30/01/2012 Human-Wildlife Conflict
Bandipur Road Kills Bandipur National Park 16/05/2012 Road Kills
ACF Madan Nayak attacked after he objec... Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary 10/05/2012 Excessive Tourism
483 star tortoises seized at BIA Other locations in Western Ghats 07/05/2012 Poaching
Layout coming up Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary 02/05/2012 Fragmentation
Activists remove over 100 traps from Ba... Nagarahole National Park 04/05/2012 Poaching
Speeding truck knocks down chital in Ba... Bandipur National Park 02/05/2012 Human-Wildlife Conflict
Wild elephants unleash havoc Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary 16/04/2012 Human-Wildlife Conflict
Tusker electrocuted BRT Wildlife Sanctuary 01/05/2012 Human-Wildlife Conflict
Illegal quarrying endangers elephant co... Other Important Wildlife Habitats 13/03/2012 Mining
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