Up close with WildLife SOS's animal/forest conservationists

The CEO and Co-founders of Wildlife SOS - Mr.Kartick Satyanarayan and Ms.Geeta Seshamani are in Singapore currently and IWA has organized a small session with them where they will tell us about Wildlife SOS (www.wildlifesos.org) which does amazing work in India though their rescue centers near Agra and Mathura, their reforestation efforts and pioneering work in the field of wildlife conservation in India.

Date: Sunday 19th January 2014

Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm

Venue: Madder Moon, #01-01, 16 Ann Siang road. S-069696

Wildlife SOS successfully brought an end to the centuries old practice of bear performances across India using a combination of social engineering, women empowerment, seed funding, skill development, children's education (currently 1220 Kalandar children attend school) and of course passion and perseverance. Today the Kalandar community that used to cause the poaching of bear cubs is earning its living through alternative livelihoods. Wildlife SOS has rescued and rehabilitated over 630 bears across India! and runs the worlds largest bear rehabilitation centres for sloth bears.

Watch some talks by Kartick Satyanarayan :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJN-sFn1pks
http://www.ted.com/talks/kartick_satyanarayan_how_we_rescued_the_dancing_bears.html
http://www.ted.com/speakers/kartick_satyanarayan.html
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/10/11/wildlife-sos-india-ends-the-400-year-old-persecution-of-bears-a-conservation-success-story/
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/06/first-ever-release-of-a-radio-collared-sloth-bear-in-india/