The building block is built on the principle that a community based initiative to protect cetaceans and their habitats is best done when owned by the local communities itself. It incentivizes, empowers and engages a community and its businesses so that they benefit directly from a healthy and thriving ocean. 

To coordinate and facilitate the development of a WHS initiative, a steering committee is formed by local stakeholders. These are enthusiastic, creative and passionate individuals who steer the process and help launch, maintain, and sustain the application process.

An effective WHS steering committee should be fully diverse and inclusive and representative of the community and include staff, volunteers, and community members. Its purpose is to serve as a mobilizing force, not a bureaucracy. Making the process meaningful and purposeful for everyone involved. Within the process there is guidance on establishing sub-committees or workgroups to focus on specific goals and activities. 

As well as leading and manageing the process of application, the steering committee must show continual improvement across the community with its various initiatives, through annual reporting as a measure of WHS's excellence.

Shark spotting is a proactive, early-warning shark-safety service provided at 8 strategic beaches around Cape Town where there is a high spatial overlap between people and sharks. It uses continuous visual surveillance by trained observers (spotters) to detect sharks and prevent negative interactions between sharks and recreational water-users.

Spotters scan the water looking for sharks using polarized sunglasses and binoculars. When a shark is seen a siren is sounded and flag is raised, signaling to water users to leave the water and only return when the appropriate all clear signal is given. Shark Spotters uses a system of four informative flags on every beach to communicate the current shark status and spotting conditions to the public.
With over 3,000 shark sightings recorded by the program since its inception, Shark Spotters has significantly reduced the risk of shark bite at our operating beaches, providing safer swimming and surfing areas for visitors and locals alike.

After the system obtains the hot spot alarm from satellite, UAV and ground camera, it can timely send forest rangers near the hot spot to verify whether the hot spot is a fire event. If the hot spot is not a fire event, the hot spot will not be reported to the fire department; If the hot spot is a fire event, it will be reported to the fire department through the fire submission module.

The system captures hot spots (possibly fire events) from satellites, UAVs and ground cameras, and obtains fire event information from forest rangers. More than a dozen satellites scan the reserve at different frequencies every day. After intelligently analyzing the satellite scanning information, the system automatically selects the hot spots and sends out hot spot alarm; In case of bad weather and dense clouds in the protection area, the system can send UAV to fly at low altitude to scan the protection area, screen hot spots from the video images scanned by UAV, and send hot spot alarm; The network composed of thousands of ground cameras can monitor the situation of the protected area in real time, automatically analyze the images obtained by ground cameras, screen hot spots, and then send hot spot alarm; 140000 forest rangers were scattered to patrol every corner of the reserve. Once a fire  is found, they can immediately call the fire department through the system. Satellites, UAVs, ground cameras and forest rangers cooperate with each other, greatly reducing the time to find hot spots and fire events.

Before conducting workshops, we build connections with local key stakeholders who are at the frontline of managing zoonotics and human-wildlife conflict. First, we contact the state health ministries. Currently, we have support from the Directorate of Health Services in Goa and the Department of Health and Family Welfare in Karnataka. We then identify districts for conducting workshops and obtain permissions from the District Commissioner, District Zilla Panchayat CEO, District Health Officer, and Forest Department officials. So far, we have done this in 10 districts. We also meet and get permissions from taluk (sub-district) officers including Taluk Executive Officers of Panchayats, and Block Medical Officers. Next, we identify the Village Gram Panchayats where we will conduct workshops and get permissions from Panchayat Development Officers and Primary Healthcare Centers. Lastly, we visit and invite local prominent citizens or organizations relevant to our program such as previous partners, teachers, child development program officials, veterinary officials, and farmer cooperatives. We use these interactions to understand local health and infrastructure challenges. Based on our findings and the local ecological and socioeconomic context, we adapt the content of our workshops.

For program implementation, we recruit field staff who conduct the workshops, deliver the content to participants, and collect evaluation data. Each team works in a specific region of the Western Ghats. We select people who are local to the area and can speak in multiple languages such as Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Tamil, and Malayalam. Once staff are hired, we teach them to disseminate the workshop content and ensure they understand the intended impact of each session. We train them in first aid using demonstrations and real-life examples. We also teach them best practices for community engagement and ethics. So far we have trained 1 Program Manager, 6 Project Coordinators, and 13 Educators for Wild Surakshe. Having well-trained, passionate, and dedicated field staff has been instrumental in allowing us to cover 11 PAs. Wild Connect, our app for offline data collection, has also helped us streamline data management making it easier to manage the program. These factors will be key for scaling to 69 PAs over the next 3-5 years. Currently, our teams conduct the workshops in local languages (eg. Kannada) but enter data on the app in English. We plan to incorporate multilingual services on our app.

Godrej Infotech Limited  (GITL) is part of Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co Ltd. It is specialised in software development. It was commissioned by Wetland Management Department (WMS) for Mangroves app development. GITL received information, images, app framework, concept note and other guidence from WMS. GITL developed app and provided to WMS Dept. WMS Department piolt tested app with select stakeholders and received users feedback. This feedback was incorporated to finalise app information, design and user features. 

Wetland Management Services Department of Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co Ltd conceptualised mobile app. It compiled required information, images and got validation from subject experts. It facilitated translation of app to 10 languages. It disseminated the app nationally & internationally

The basic purpose of engaging with the local community members was to identify the challenges faced by them and the feasible solution to overcome them. Moreover, this engagement facilitated in making the intervention/solution a local asset and encouraged community to take ownership of the solution. This is pivotal for the sustainability of the project and to create awareness among the community.

multiple pages, tabs and pull down menus allow visitors to download both learning tools and manuals and referernces and access articles and videos. "Teacher's Corner" page was added with local schools' input to supplement mandated curriula in Belize with coloring books and other aids specefic to Belize's reef and marine life.