Social Responsibility

At Machan, we care about the land, the people, and the wildlife. We have been actively involved in wildlife conservation and seek to reestablish the bonds between the land, nature, and people. For this purpose we have sponsored and supported various educational and conservation programs in the local community. At Machan we realize in order to sustain our business, we must create an economy and culture that is willing to protect our jungles and wildlife. For this reason, Machan has been a strong proponent and example of private investment in eco-tourism and sustainable development in the region.

Machan Wildlife Resort is actively involved in the community. In partnership with FINIDA, a development organization from Finland, Machan worked with the local community to establish a community forest. A sense of ownership was born from this initiative and encouraged villagers to act as caretakers of the forest. With plenty of fuel available from controlled use of the forest the villagers were able to utilize the forest as an additional source of income. This immediately increased the value of the forest and created an interest in reforestation within the community. The project was a huge success and achieved Machan’s goal of wildlife preservation.

Royal Chitwan National Park hosts a number of endangered species, some including the One Horned Rhino and Bengal Tiger are targeted by poachers. The best way to combat poaching is to gain the support of the local community against poaching and poachers. With this goal in mind, Machan Wildlife Resort has organized fundraising campaigns to educate the children from the local community. In Sunachuri, a school was successfully built with the assistance of HIKIVA, a Japanese non-profit organization. Machan has some its teachers under its own payroll. Machan has also worked with a Taiwanese monastery to build a school in Gadauli, around ten kilometers from Machan Wildlife Resort.

Machan Paradise View is initiating a community awareness campaign with the Snow Leopard Conversancy, a San Diego based non-profit. The campaign intends to start a Junior Ranger Training program targeted at high school students in the local area. Machan believes the training program will create an appreciation for the National Park and the wildlife it contains. The campaign hopes to cause a ripple effect from the children to their parents and to the community at large, with the children teaching their parents the importance of the National Park. This training program will also produce qualified jungle guides in the students themselves. This will provide them with job opportunities upon graduation in the local economy and conversely will provide qualified human personnel to the local economy.

Machan Paradise View is also initiating a partnership with a Maine based non-profit, Seed Tree, with the intention of supplying local woman’s handicraft products into national and international markets. The objective of the program is to support a local human economy that works with and along side the local ecology. This program will provide additional income to local households and through this income generating means will empower the women involved in this industry. With raw materials for most products coming from the community forest, Machan Paradise View believes this will increase the value of the forest and the National Park.

Machan Paradise View realizes it has a role to play in the socio-economic development of the local area and has actively leveraged its position. From the promotion of solar cookers to the raising of orphaned animals Machan has consistently played an active role in trying to protect the local ecology while improving the local economy.