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Winter Field Project 2025: Beyond Human-Wildlife Conflict

In this video, Waqar, a student from the 2023–2025 batch of the MA Development programme at Azim Premji University, reflects on the journey of his Winter Field project, carried out in the Terai Arc Landscape with a focus on Pilibhit district in Uttar Pradesh. Working in a region that spans the fragile interface between forests, farms, and villages, Waqar’s research examines the lived realities of human–wildlife conflict in the Terai. Home to tigers, elephants, leopards, and bears, this ecologically rich corridor is also a densely inhabited landscape where encounters between people and wildlife are frequent and often fatal. Through fieldwork and interviews with families affected by conflict-related injuries and deaths, the project explores how compensation mechanisms function on the ground and whether they meaningfully support families in the long term. The study moves beyond policy design to document grief, fear, bureaucratic delays, and community responses to conflict. It highlights the gap between short-term financial relief and the deeper social and economic vulnerabilities faced by affected households. Waqar’s work argues that if coexistence is the goal, conservation efforts must look beyond one-time compensation and actively involve local communities as partners in decision-making, trust-building, and long-term support systems. Cinematography: Vikrant Anand & Ankit Mangal Editing : Ankit Mangal #TeraiArcLandscape #HumanWildlifeConflict #Coexistence #TigerLandscape #ForestCommunities #ConservationAndPeople #WildlifeGovernance #CompensationAndJustice #CommunityBasedConservation #LivingWithWildlife #FieldBasedResearch #WinterfieldProject #MADevelopment #AzimPremjiUniversity