TCF's Chairman and Founder Mr. Dilip Khatau was honoured with the Legends Award at the East India Travel Awards held in Guwahati on 26th July 2017 for his exemplary contribution to travel & tourism and wildlife conservation work. Mr. Khatau is now one of very few in India to be part of The Gallery of Legends of the India Travel Awards! TCF heartily congratulates Mr. Khatau on this occasion.

As the annual floods ravage Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, TCF's team including 14 volunteers including local village youth, villagers associated with TCF’s conflict mitigation ‘Human-Elephant Project,’ PhD scholars from Guwahati University and local school teachers were involved in the following activities - assisting the park authorities in issuing time cards to vehicles plying NH37 to minimize wildlife casualties from road accidents, ferrying injured wildlife to the CWRC Rescue Centre, and actively patrolling villages to ensure that vulnerable wildlife fleeing the flood and near human settlements are not poached. TCF also spread awareness, advising well-meaning villagers against restraining herbivores near their homes in an attempt to assist them, since the panicked animals could die from ‘capture myopathy’. The two Highlands constructed by TCF with support from Hem Chand Mahindra Foundation and Dharamsi Morarji Chemicals Co. Ltd. have proved to be a much-needed refuge for local communites and livestock in villages Diphloopathar and Japoripathar in Kaziranga

Among local communities in Central India, one of the primary sources of antagonism towards big cats like tigers and leopards is the injury of livestock by these carnivores, the wounds from which are often fatal if left unattended. Mitigating this conflict is crucial to tiger conservation and enlisting local support towards this cause. TCF therefore conducted a seven-day training workshop for Livestock Inspectors (LIs) at Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in collaboration with the Forest Department, under which four LIs were trained to promptly treat grievously injured livestock, as well as to create awareness among and gather relevant information from villagers. The trained LIs now work with the Forest Department. The overall goal of the project is to ensure the long-term conservation of tiger in Bandhavgarh landscape by addressing the human-tiger conflict, developing a network of informers and spreading awareness among the local communities in the buffer zone of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.