The Wildlife Division, Dimapur, has expressed appreciation to Vivek Menon, Founder Trustee and Executive Director of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), and its partner, Fondation Segre, for extending the ‘Grain for Grain’ initiative to Nagaland. The humanitarian-conservation scheme aims to provide relief to farmers affected by human-elephant conflict (HEC) and to strengthen coexistence between people and wildlife.

In the inaugural phase of implementation in Nagaland, the initiative reached 123 households across five villages in Wokha and Zunheboto districts. Each household received one quintal of rice as compensation for extensive crop losses caused by elephant depredation. The distribution symbolised both material support and solidarity from the wider conservation fraternity to the affec

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