SAVE Mahseer

Mahseer Conservancy is a not-for-profit organisation which specialises in tackling grass-roots conservation issues with small-scale but large-impact community-based initiatives.

make Mahseer Safe

Explore this website to find out more about key wildlife threats and problems and how we tackle them in the stronghold home of the Bengal Tiger and Golden Mahseer

Our Inspirations

Our inspirations from wildlife conservation include the resilience and adaptability of nature, teaching us to sustain and protect our environment.

Jolly in the forest

Chandra Singh Negi Known more as 'Jolly Uncle', or the 'Tiger Man of Corbet'

Joining the Forest Department in 1956 when he was just 16 he has spent his years defending tigers many times from poachers, and saved people from tigers just by his calm and knowledge.

Women of chipko Movement

In march 26,1974, when a group of female peasents in Garhwal Himalayas of Uttrakhand, acted to stop the felling of trees by the state Forest Department by hugging them (Chipko translates as 'to stick').

Grandfather of Indian Conservation

Appointed Assistant Commissioner of Kumao in 1840, Henry Ramsay's unassuming and friendly demenor with everyone high and low gained wide-scale respect and support from the inhabitants.

About Us

The Society for Mahseer Conservancy is a conservation-focused, not-for-profit registered charity based in the Corbett Region of Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand, where we are we are based, is undergoing a period of rapid developments and whilst many areas of immense natural value and pristine condition are still intact human pressures are increasing and without action many important species and habitats may be destroyed.

qualified Team

We have gathered a team of highly qualified animal protection experts.

protecting all Species

Besides mahseer, we also aim to protect and save other species of wild animals.

global Work

Our organization works globally to help rescue more endangered species.

Where we are

Uttarakhand, a newly formed state in 2000, shares borders with Nepal to the east and Tibet to the north.

Uttarakhands topography shows huge differences in altitude, starting as flat Gangetic plains on the southern border, then progressing northwards through the long east-west ridge of Himalayan foothills ...