As per the provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act,1972 the Chief Wildlife Warden, West Bengal has appointed 23 Hony. Wildlife Wardens for each of the districts in the state. The  Hony. Wildlife Wardens are selected from community leaders and other persons of standing with an interest and capacity to render assistance in ensuring People's participation in the support for the cause of Wildlife Conservation. The Hony. Wildlife Wardens have definite role in the mobilization of support towards the control of poaching and clandestine trade in live animals and wildlife articles, identification and protection of lesser known wildlife refuges, sensitizing the people living around the Protected Areas for ameliorating man-animal conflicts etc.

West Bengal Forest Department is credited for initiating the Participatory Joint Forest Management Approach.

The concept succeeded not only in enhancing the green cover percentage for the state against overall global trend of reduction of the same, but also helped immensely in mitigating man-animal conflict in vulnerable areas of South West Bengal and the Sunderbans.

With an objective to combat the illegitimate trade in live birds and turtle, the Wildlife Wing decided to generate awareness among the general citizen on a participatory mode. A theatre performance group, "Manthan, the achievement" was commissioned to stage street plays enscripting the message of conservation of urban wildlife at select market places in and around Kolkata.
The move was further accentuated by means of distribution of posters and pamphlets that bore the conservation message. The total public interface was carried on a decentralized mode with a top-down approach, interacting with them face to face. 10 such interactive programs was carried out from January 30th to February 14,2010.

A bird census was conducted at the Santragachi Jheel on 16.01.2010 by Prakriti Sansad, an NGO. The final enumeration enlisted 5068 individuals from 20 species, showing phenomenal increase from the previous years' census figure of around 2051.

A comprehensive estimation of tiger, co-predator, prey base and their habitats is being conducted in all the 17 tiger Range states of India to ascertain the status of tiger occupancy, both within and outside the Protected Areas. This new approach, being conducted in collaboration with the National Tiger Conservation Authority, Ministry of Environment and Forests and Wildlife Institute of India, would not only  undertake estimation of the tigers and co-predators but would also evaluate their habitats and prey-bases. A Forest Beat is being considered to be the unit for this study.
In West Bengal, efforts are being made to complete the Phase I data collection work in the plains by 31.03.2010 and by 30.04.2010 in the high altitude inaccessible areas like Darjeeling, Singhalila and Neora Valley National Park.