Hazaribagh, Bihar, an area of Eastern India containing a significant proportion of the world's remaining wild tigers, is potentially threatened by the destructive programs being pursued in this area. This ecosystem is stressed but still functioning, but the vital forest corridors connecting core habitat areas are under threat. One of the major threats is from coal mining, funded in part by the World Bank. The World Bank is directly financing 25 mines for the first stage of the project. These mines were to be examples of sound environmental practice, but have completely failed to consider the effects on forest corridors.

Bulu Imam in Hazaribagh, Bihar is running the campaign to save the Hazaribagh corridor and hopefully the rest of the Thousand Tigers Ecosystem. He along with his two sons maintains the Field Office of Thousand Tigers Ecosystem, monitoring the destructive development, involving different key actors in solving potential destructive programs, and are operating in three inter-dependant areas

Establishing and monitoring corridor information through which fast-developing opencast mines are destroying forested ecosystems which are still being used by key threatened species like Tiger, Elephant, Gaur or Indian bison (sometimes), and Panther. The area of operations is in the upper watershed of river Damodar known as the North Karanpura Valley. North Karanpura coalfields project was started way back in 1985-87 and three mines are under way with over another 70 in planning. Two mines (Magadh and Amrapali) have received environmental clearance despite the destruction of wildlife corridors. He has been fighting to get wildlife corridor clearance, especially for mega species of the IUCN Red Data list made mandated.

Identifying prime archaeological sites being threatened by the vast opencast mines for which 54 sites including a dozen rare pre-historic rock-art sites and 30 palaeo to meso-lithic sites discovered by his team had been given to UNESCO after he met its Director General, Dr. Frederico Mayor and Dr. Karan Singh. He was successful in 1996 in getting archaeological clearance made mandatory in the EMP/EIA submitted to MOEF. More recently they have highlighted the threat to important sites connected with the lifetime of the Buddha and placed no less than twenty hitherto unreported sites in the Hazaribagh region on the archaeological map.

Indigenous status of the aboriginals, now classified as Scheduled Tribes, of Kolarian, Dravidian and Protoaustraloid groups, which are autocthonous, and analysis of their rights in view of the palaeoarchaeology of the region and their continuing traditions of art similar to the rock-art which is in some instances over 10,000 years old. These endeavours have necessitated heavy research, travel, communication and activism of different sorts. He has been associated with over a dozen films of various kinds. They have carried out regional, national and international activism.

These three fields require research staff, office facilities such as stationery and post etc., transport, and communication. They have so far been funding themselves through their own resources. ASCI would like to extend financial support for all the above activities and request the donors to contribute for this noble conservation effort. ASCI would like to generate an initial amount of $2000 for the same.