The capacity building component has three major thrust areas:

1.	Training Indian biologists and researchers
2.	Training park management personnel
3.	Training non-governmental volunteer conservationists.    The capabilities to be built    vary among these three    target groups.

The researchers acquire skills in a variety of areas of animal and habitat-related studies; park staff are trained primarily in protection, mapping and monitoring of key vertebrate species; and the conservation volunteers are trained in simple wildlife monitoring techniques and in conservation advocacy tactics.

These training workshops involve intensive field sessions in the application of sampling based methods for monitoring large mammal populations in Indian reserves.

The methods include density estimation of tiger prey species, relative abundance estimation of large herbivores and carnivores using pellet count and scat encounter rates respectively, and the demonstration of camera trap techniques to survey and estimate carnivore populations.

A graduate programme to produce Indian students with the skills necessary to be effective conservation biologists is currently run in collaboration with National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)