A two-day regional workshop for Southern zone under the ongoing collaborative project, “Protection and Enforcement Training Curriculum Standardization and Institutionalization” was organized by the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) in partnerships with WWF-India, TRAFFIC-India, and Forest Department of Karnataka on 23 and 24 March 2021 at Hotel Ramanashree California, Bengaluru. The said workshop was hybrid in nature and attended by forest officials and Directors/in-charge/instructors of forest training schools from Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala; officials and representatives from National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), GTF, WWF-India; and TRAFFIC-India.
The said workshop was conducted in continuation to the 1st and 2nd regional workshops held at Guwahati, Assam in December 2019, and at Nagpur, Maharashtra in January-February 2020 respectively, for collecting inputs/suggestions from both the regions.