TOFTigers, India’s leading advocate for responsible wildlife tourism held its 2nd Wildlife Tourism Awards Friday night at the Ambassador hotel in New Delhi.
“What we have always said is that India does have many inspiration people and businesses involved in the nature tourism sector, changing lives, saving forest and wildlife and supporting people, often overlooked in the heated debate of the present tourism ban,” says the TOFT awards founder, Julian Matthews. “If all nature tourism was like this, India’s wildlife tourism would not be in its present impasse.”
Winners include superb naturalists, NGO’s funded by tourism, now treating 90,000 patients on the borders of a tiger reserve, park guides that spend their spare time training and educating, private sanctuaries that have restored fabulous waterfalls and stitched back two parks on its boundaries, beautiful tiger reserves with blooming tiger populations and lodges that now have resident wildlife and even tigers in their restored landscapes. This is the future of nature tourism. It is already here and we all need to ensure such inspirational examples are replicated across India in the future.
Winner\'s list as below:
LODGE NATURALIST OF THE YEAR 2012 Winner: Rajesh Bhatt Jim’s Jungle Lodge Corbett, Uttarakhand
WILDLIFE PROMOTION COMPANY OF THE 2012 Winner: &Beyond India
WILDLIFE TOURISM COMMUNITY INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR 2012 Winner: Prakratik Society Ranthambhore
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