India's jungles, ranging from lush evergreen tropical rain forests in the East to the dry deciduous desert shrub in the West, are home to a wide spectrum of wild animals, including lions, tigers, leopards and snow leopards and elephants, gaur, wild buffaloes, rhinoceros, eight species of deer and many primates among the 350 mammal species. Over 2,000 species of birds, varieties of crocodiles, turtles, snakes, lizards and over 5,000 insects, including beautiful butterflies, enrich India's fauna.

To preserve its wildlands and wildlife, India has set aside over 1.2 million square kilometers in 525 protected areas as National Parks, Sanctuaries and reserves. But this is only 3.6 percent of a land area where human population exceeding 800 million is exerting excessive pressure on the natural resources. The only way to preserve India's wildlife is to enhance environmental awareness of the people through educational and research programs. To meet this urgent need, a foundationwas registered as a conservation trust. Since the tiger is the spirit of the Indian Jungle and the Founder was closely associated with its revival, he chose to call the foundation - TIGER TRUST.

Tiger Trust is a National Level Non-governmental Organization that started in 1989 by Late Kailash Sankhala, Padma Shree, Founder Director of Project Tiger, Government of India. Tiger trust works for Nature Conservation its programs awareness and education. Through its headquarters in New Delhi, India, it has established Kailash Sankhala Conservation Centers near Kanha National Park and Bandhavgarh National Park where we work closely with the neighborhood communities, park authorities, State Governments and other organizations. In urban areas we have a very active Save the Tiger campaign that involves students, both school and college, professionals and corporate houses.


Kailash Sankhala Memorial Lecture is organized every year jointly by Tiger Trust and WWF- India.

The speakers of the past lectures have been:

25 October 2007 - Shri Mike Pandey - a renowned film maker & conservationist
Topic : The role of Films in Conservation.

March 2006 – Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman of Swaminath Foundation in Chennai and the leader of Green Revolution Movement in India and abroad.

March 2005 -Mr. Bittu Sehgal, well known conservationist and Editor of Sanctuary Magzine

March 2004 – Mr. Bitto Sehgal, well known conservationist and Editor of Sanctuary Magzine.

3rd of November 2003:
Speaker: Mr. Marco Romero - Founder, Tiger Foundation Canada
Topic: The Cost of Saving the Tiger

2002:
Speaker: Dr. Ronald Tilson - Tiger Expert, Conservation Biologist and Chairman & Director, Tiger Foundation Canada

2nd November 2001: Mr. Stephen Mills
Topic: The Uses & Abuses of Ignorance

9th November 2000: Mr. H. S. Panwar - Former Director, Wildlife Institite of India, Dehradun
Topic : Current Conservation Scene - High Time for a Hard Look.

5th Oct0ber 1999: Mr. Peter Jackson - Chairman Cat Specialist Group (IUCN)
Topic : Tigers : Yes, but what about all other cats ?


Principal Trustee of Tiger Trust

Ms. Anjana Gosain
(Senior Secretary)

Ms. Anjana Gosain

Ms. Anjana Gosain has been a wildlife enthusiast since her student days. Eventually, she took to practicing law. Now, she has got a legal practice of 25 years of standing to her credit, which includes her activism related to nature conservation. As for the Tiger Trust, she has been conducting legal awareness programmes for the personnel from the Department of Forests in different states in India, as well as in various national level programmes personally. She has been monitoring and pursuing numerous cases related to wildlife offences, particularly those related to the Tigers. Her recent endevours include the efforts in getting the existing Wildlife (Protection) Act amended in India. She feels that there is a lot of scope for improvement in the existing Act and there is an urgency to make it simplified as well as more stringent on a war footing in order to save the Tigers.

Ms. Gosain has got this opinion that acting as a bridge between the locals and the government is one of the major tasks of the conservation organizations. Besides, the non-government organizations like Tiger Trust has an important role to play, that is acting as a complementary and supporting catalyst in the said responsibility.


This 51-year-old New Delhi-based lawyer and activist has dedicated her life to the cause of the saving the Tiger as well as conserving its natural habitat.


Mr. Amit Sankhala

Mr. Amit Sankhala, trustee Tiger Trust, is grandson of Padmashri Late Mr. Kailash Sankhala and son of Late Mr. Pradeep Sankhala. He has vowed to continue the legacy of the Sankhala family by carrying forward the mission of nature conservation. This young tiger-lover and wildlife enthusiast has been putting in new ideas and zeal in to the organization, which includes spreading awareness and mustering support for the survival of the Tiger.

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