Uttarakhand closes Wildlife Week on the theme 'Connected Habitats, Thriving Wildlife'

14 October 2026

Wildlife Week 2026 in Uttarakhand was inaugurated on 1 October 2026 at the ICFRE Auditorium, Dehradun, and concluded at Lok Bhawan on 8 October 2026.
The theme was 'Connected Habitats, Thriving Wildlife', which places wildlife corridors and natural habitats alongside protected areas.
The Uttarakhand Forest Department observes Wildlife Week in the first week of October every year.
At the closing ceremony Governor Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh (Retd.) unveiled the logo of the Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary in Almora and felicitated forest and wildlife personnel.
The release records that the State government has declared human-wildlife conflict a disaster and has constituted district-level mitigation and management committees.
Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Head of Forest Force) Kapil Lal, PCCF (Wildlife) Neena Grewal, Secretary C. Ravishankar and Member of Parliament Naresh Bansal took part.