In May, we were in the middle of the hot, dry, drought season in Bandhavgarh, now barely 4 months on and we are midst of heavy monsoon rains! Our team in India told us yesterday that it had rained torrentially every day for the last 25 days! Heavy monsoon rains are much needed, not just for replenishing seasonal waterholes and underground streams but for breathing new life into a forest scorched bare by 9 months of drought. Now there is a plentiful bounty for all the wildlife in Bandhavgarh from the humble insects to the largest mammals, the elephants who consume a whopping 300kg (660lbs) of vegetation every day! Elephants are important seed distributers in the forest because they consume and output so much vegetation whilst trekking hundreds of miles each day, critical to replenishing forest areas damaged by storms and other challenges. The monsoon isn’t a good time to construct new waterholes, but it is a good time for planning our future work. Our Anti-Poaching Patrols play a critical role in this research and planning as they feedback the status of seasonal waterholes and animal movements throughout the rainy season. This enables monitoring of the most vital waterholes for all wildlife and helps us to plan where solar-powered borewell pumps may be needed to ensure that seasonal water supplies do not run dry in critical locations where we can help. As reported previously, we already have a schedule of waterholes to complete after the monsoon rains end, and thanks to your kind donations we have raised £950 ($1300) of the £5000 ($6800) we need to complete work on the next nine permanent wildlife waterholes during the last few months. Without your incredible support it will be impossible to ensure that wild tigers and their prey have access to year-round water. Your year-round generosity ensures that we can provide year-round water for wild tigers too, thank you!

New Waterholes are still needed Everywhere

This year alone, Tigers4Ever has added ten new wildlife waterholes in Bandhavgarh and repaired weather damage at three of our existing waterholes too! With 36 wildlife waterholes across all zones of Bandhavgarh we are ensuring that around 130 of the 226 wild tigers have access to year-round water for themselves and their prey. With your help we hope that every tiger and cub will have access to year-round water within the next 3 years.

Wild tiger numbers continue to increase everywhere in Bandhavgarh as new cubs are born and survive to become sub-adults which need to disperse in search of new territories of their own, so more water is needed everywhere else too. To address this in part, we have incorporated new wildlife waterholes into the plans for our forest restoration project and have completed work at the Salkhania relocated wildlife waterhole in June 2026 just before the heaviest monsoon rains began. Whilst the new waterhole at the Sarmania reforestation site will be completed after the monsoon rains end. The waterhole at Sarmania will have additional importance because it will provide much needed water for the tree saplings in the new nursery we are creating at the edge of our tree planting site. This will not only attract new wildlife to the site where we are restoring lost habitat and creating a Tiger Corridor, it will reduce our future dependence on commercial sapling providers, thus reducing our future project costs too.

Six more seasonal waterholes in the Magdhi core zone are still dry for nine months every year, so we need to raise sufficient funds to complete work at these as soon as possible to ensure that wild tigers in six areas will have year-round water for many years to come. In addition, two further seasonally dry waterholes in the Pataur zone and one in Panpatha which are in urgent need of work to be done by Tigers4Ever to ensure that wild tigers can access year-round water are on our priority list too.

To fund these additional nine waterholes, we need to raise a further £4050 (US$5500) before work can start. We would like to complete these waterholes before the onset of the 2027 drought season in January, alongside the creation of the new waterhole at Sarmania (above) and another new waterhole in the Kithauli zone where a tigress and her mate have four young cubs and are at risk of retaliatory action from human-wildlife conflict if they stray into the villages in the nearby Buffer zone in search of food and water. We have funds to create these two new waterholes and hope to commence drilling the borewells to access underground streams shortly after the end of the monsoon rains. Support our waterholes project here.

Other News

If you haven’t seen it yet, our friends at Typical Tigers NFT have created a wonderful colouring book packed with fun Tiger Facts and how Typical Tigers NFT have helped Tigers4Ever to give wild tigers the wild futures they deserve. The “Typical Tigers Colouring Book” is on sale now at amazon globally ( although this is the UK link Amazon should default to your local site for pricing and delivery options). Fifty percent of the profits from sales of this book will be donated to Tigers4Ever to help with our waterhole and tree planting projects. The book is suitable for Children aged 4 to 17 years and adults who like colouring books too. We are very grateful for this kind gesture and the continued support of Typical Tigers NFT as they help us to give wild tigers the wild futures they deserve. Thank you in advance to anyone who buys a copy of this wonderful colouring book which is also packed with fun tiger facts too.

On 28 August 2026, Tigers4Ever Trustee Georgia, walked three quarters of a marathon (despite only planning to do a half marathon) – 19 miles (30.4kms) to raise funds for our Tree Planting Project. To date she has raised over £800 ($1050), Trees for Tigers – walking a half marathon – GlobalGiving. If you a thinking of doing something similar, please consider being a fundraiser for Tigers4Ever too.

We Need Your Help

We still need your help as wild tiger and other wildlife populations continue to increase so future human-wildlife conflict is inevitable too. Tigers4Ever waterholes and other innovative solutions increase in importance every day, so we need to fund future projects alongside those we are already committed to complete. Your kind donations are essential to ensure that we can make more wildlife waterholes possible and to complete other projects to reduce human-wildlife conflict too. Without your help we can’t provide more safe forest homes for dispersing young wild tigers! Please help, if and whenever you can, as tomorrow may be too late.

The best way to reduce Human-Wildlife conflict is to prevent the prey animals and predators entering the villages in search of water and food. We prioritise our permanent wildlife waterhole projects, every year, as the drought season takes hold.

Waterholes are more than just puddles in the forest; they are the keystones of survival for wild tigers and their ecosystems. Investing in the protection and restoration of our waterholes, and the construction of new waterholes is not only a conservation priority but a moral imperative in our fight to save one of the planet’s most iconic species. If you can support our efforts to reduce human-wildlife conflict and save wild tigers please donate whatever you can afford here. thank you.

To sustain the growth of Bandhavgarh’s wild tiger population, more permanent wildlife waterholes are needed in areas which can support both prey and predator dispersal. It is a major challenge for Tigers4Ever to provide more wildlife waterholes right now when they are most needed. Your support and donations are vital to ensuring that our waterholes project can address the need as soon as possible. We NEED to raise £25000/US$34500 to provide 3 more medium-large waterholes in 2026-2027! With funding we can mobilise local labour, but without funding it will take too long and sadly wild tigers and elephants will die.

It would be truly amazing if everyone who reads this report could donate £10 ($14) per month each as raising enough funds to create one large wildlife waterhole would be possible much earlier. Permanent wildlife waterholes are critical to preventing tiger-tiger and human-animal conflict, which have arisen from increased wild tiger numbers. There are more tiger cubs now (88) in Bandhavgarh than the total number of wild tigers (37) counted in the 2010 Tiger Census, when Tigers4Ever started work there. One waterhole isn’t enough to reduce the conflict caused by wild tigers encroaching on the territories of other tigers and humans, so we need your help to provide as many waterholes as possible before it is too late.

We need to keep wild tigers safe every day. Our anti-poaching patrols are quadrupled right now to counter the risks of retaliatory poisoning and poaching. If, with your help we can complete two more waterhole projects sooner it will help us to keep at least 16 more wild tigers including cubs safe.

How Your donations help us to save wild tigers:

• £10 ($14) per month for a year will help to drill 12 metres (39 feet) of bore-well to access underground water.
• a one-off £20 ($28) gift will help to drill 2 metres (6.5 feet) of bore-well to access underground water.
• a one-off £40 ($56) gift will help to drill 4 metres (13 feet) of bore-well to access underground water.
• £90 ($126) can pay a team of workers to prepare a site for a new waterhole for wild tigers;
• £120 ($168) can cover the cost of labour and preparation of a 1.5 metre wide by 1.5-metre-deep elephant proof moat to protect a solar-pump system.
• £2000 ($2800) will enable the digging and lining of one large waterhole.

Every donation, no matter how large or small, helps to increase and protect the wild tiger population. Thank you on behalf of the wild tigers, which you help us to keep safe; and on behalf of the wider tiger community in Bandhavgarh, which benefits from providing equipment and labour for our waterhole projects. We couldn’t do this without you, thanks to you, the wild tigers can live peacefully and those who live beside them can protect their livelihoods.

All donations are welcome. If you can’t afford to donate perhaps you could become a Tigers4Ever fundraiser, here and ask your friends, colleagues and family to donate to your fundraiser to help us keep wild tigers safe.