About Us

The Organisation was set up in the year 2007, by Sunita Dhairyam who has always had a deep love for nature and wildlife. She spent a couple of years in Zambia, studied in India, and lived in the USA, before setting up her current home in Bandipur. The organisation focusses on a 360 degree conservation strategy of ensuring welfare of people and their domestic animals living in the border of villages near protected forests.
MCT’s goals are to work with local communities with the vision to conserve and protect the forest and wildlife in the fragile landscape surrounding the Bandipur Tiger Reserve. The Trust has, over the last twenty years, built up a relationship with the local residents, that live alongside The Bandipur Tiger Reserve, who are key to the conservation efforts for wildlife. We aim to help people live a better life, in harmony with their surroundings. As we are based in Mangala village which borders the tiger reserve, we are aware of the dangers and conflicts faced by the neighbouring wildlife and human populations. As always, alongside human populations, live all their domesticated animals for example, livestock and dogs. The organisation also concentrates on the importance of disease control amongst the domestic animal populations in these villages as these diseases pose a huge threat to wildlife. Healthcare amongst the village population has also been a primary factor that we work on. Our free clinic was set up in 2000. There are huge poverty related problems that local people face, healthcare is non existent and there is no safety net for people who get sick. We aim to give local people alternate livelihoods to decrease the pressures on the wildlife and forests.