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World Bear Day celebration (March 23, 2022) Training 3 (February 25-28, 2023)

The World Bear Day is celebrated on 23 March every year, to recognize and “Field Based Training on Contemporary Techniques for Research and
encourage the conservation of the various bear species found in the world. Bear Monitoring of Bears & Habitat” was jointly organized by Vadodara Wildlife
Day is celebrated to raise awareness among people about the various bears, Division and Wildlife and Conservation Biology Research Foundation, Patan.
their habits and habitats. The Wildlife and Conservation Biology (WCB) This training course was supported by International Association for Bear
Research Foundation in association with our collaborators and Vadodara Research & Management (IBA), USA through providing financial support under
Wildlife division jointly organized the World Bear Day celebration at the Experience and Exchange Grants. This training was organized with a motive
Ratanmahal sloth bear sanctuary. Volunteers participated in the bear day to develop the capacity of frontline forest staff and young researchers, to
celebration and visited schools and engaged with children to (1) fill out the bear conduct monitoring of bears and habitats and exchange of knowledge
book, (2) recommendations on safe living in the sloth bear habitat through a between the participants. The training programme was organized at Dhanpuri
detailed presentation with brief talk on sloth bear, followed by a documentary ecotourism site in Panchmahal district.
and animated film on the same topic and (3) distributing bear education
materials as a take-home message. The research-based session on opportunities for research and preparation of
research proposals was also conducted during the course of the training period.
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Conservation, education and outreach and human-sloth bear conflicts along
with many field-based sessions were part of the training programme that
played a vital role for initiating science-based conservation and management of
Indian bears.

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