• Mariamma Charitable Trust Saving Tigers

    Mariamma Charitable Trust Saving Tigers

  • Mariamma Charitable Trust Saving Wildlife

    Mariamma Charitable Trust Saving Wildlife

  • Mariamma Charitable Trust Reducing Rural Poverty

    Mariamma Charitable Trust Reducing Rural Poverty

A BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT

We're based in Southern India, in the Western Ghats working within a cluster of villages in the eastern part of the Bandipur Tiger Reserve.

We're at the center of a biodiversity hot spot and home to:

  • 600 tigers

  • 8000 elephants

  • 248 native landscape species

  • 55 critically endangered species

  • 148 endangered species

  • 127 vulnerable species

We're in one of the world's most important conservation areas.

HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT IS OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE

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OUR INITIATIVES

Compensation Scheme

A swift, generous and transparent compensation payment is made to the livestock owners when wildlife kill cattle, goats or sheep. This discourages subsequent retaliation killings by poisoning carcuses.

Disease Control 

A birth control programme for dogs and a vaccination programme, in collaboration with the WWF, to prevent the spread of canine distemper and rabies. The canine distemper virus can kill tigers.

Medical Care

A free medical clinic, a daily nurse and a monthly volunteer doctor to help improve health and physical well-being.

Education & Training

 A significant new project to build and equip an education and training centre where local women will be trained to use hand looms and produce items that they can sell.

Help is urgently required

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Sunita Dhairyam, founder and leader of the Mariamma Charitable Trust is an inspiration.

Her compassion and empathy of people, wildlife and their co-existence drives us to do better and do more.

But without funding, these projects and the communities they support will die.

We need your help.

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