Establishing an Asiatic Lion Interpretation Centre for Villages Located near the Kuno Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh

11 Sep 2013 Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, India, Indian Sub-continent Carnivores | Conflict | Education | Mammals

Shankar Chandra

The project will seek to establish an Interpretation Centre for the local community in villages
displaced from the Kuno sanctuary and now residing on its periphery. The interpretation centre will
translate the latest scientific and popular knowledge on the flora and fauna of Kuno, especially Asiatic Lions, to make it accessible to the local community.

Preparing the posters.

Preparing the posters.

The proposed Interpretation Centre will help to spread awareness in the villages on the edge of the Kuno sanctuary about the Asiatic Lion, and also about potential sources of human-lion conflict and ways to avoid these conflicts. It will inform the local youth about the ecological values of the Kuno wildlife sanctuary and its flora and fauna, and will eventually help to train a cadre of local youth to become nature guides with specialized knowledge of the Asiatic Lion.

By creating a locally useful set of resource materials focusing on the Asiatic lion, the project will create resources that will be used as a part of the environment education curriculum at the Adharshila School. Regular dissemination through the Interpretation Centre at the Adharshila schools will increase awareness about lions among the people living around the sanctuary, and will help to create their buy-in into lion conservation activities undertaken in the sanctuary.

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