TCF Kaziranga presented Sankardev Shishu Niketan school in Kohora, Kaziranga with the Kaziranga Prakriti Mitra Award, 2017 for being one of the best schools for promoting conservation awareness among its students. The school, the first recipient of this award, was presented with a citation, a bookshelf and a couple of books related to the environment and wildlife at a simple function held on the school premises. Chairman of TCF Mr. Dilip Khatau motivated the students to do their best for the conservation of nature and wildlife.

TCF celebrated World Wetlands Day on February 2nd, 2017 across its divisions by organizing field visits for local students and other community members to nearby wetlands. TCF Kutch accompanied students to the Jakhau Salt Pans, a rich birding area, while TCF Corbett visited Tumariya Reservoir near Corbett Tiger Reserve with local fisherman, members of the Gujjar community, school students and Forest authorities and field staff of the Terai West Forest Division. TCF staff explained the important role wetlands play in maintaining a healthy ecosystem.

TCF has begun construction of another highland, community weaving centre and livestock shed in Diphloopathar – a village bordering the eastern range of Kaziranga National Park and severely affected by the annual monsoon floods and human-elephant conflict. Following the success of this disaster-preparedness measure in Japoripathar in Kaziranga last monsoon, villagers and Gram Panchayat members volunteered to work with TCF to complete construction before the first monsoon showers hit Kaziranga. With the earth having been raised, the construction of the weaving centre and shed is now in progress, and 50 trees will also be planted and protected by tree guards. Chairman and founder of TCF Mr. Dilip Khatau visited the highland site and appreciated its scope as a refuge structure and the effort contributed to its construction. This flood-preparedness measure is supported generously by Hem Chand Mahindra Foundation.

Women from the rural community in Kaziranga, Assam have been weaving cloth traditionally for many years. Recently, TCF has been imparting training to the women in weaving modern designs and patterns in an attempt to boost their sale. One such group of women in the remotely located village of Japoripathar have had throngs of western tourists visiting the village to purchase hand-woven cloth articles, giving the sale of traditionally woven cloth a much needed boost. TCF has been developing market linkages for the products made by rural women by appealing to local hotels, resorts and tour operators to connect their tourists with the community weaving centres that TCF has constructed in the Kaziranga landscape. This intervention of TCF supports its alternative livelihood programme titled PUKAAR, funded by Axis Bank Foundation.