This project aims to improve the conservation potential of Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary in a socially just manner, through participatory activities in villages that have been displaced from the sanctuary.

Through these activities, the sanctuary would be prepared for receiving and sustaining, in a conflict-free manner, a population of the endangered Asiatic Lion from Gir National Park in Gujarat, where its last free-ranging population is found presently.

Kuno sanctuary has been selected as the site for lion reintroduction, but unless the livelihood security of people dependent on the sanctuary is taken care of, chances of success of lion reintroduction are remote.