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Over 85% Local
Over 85% of our team members are from Tehla and nearby villages, and we are proud to support local families. Reducing our carbon footprint and investing in the local economy allow us to make a greater impact with the choices we make.
Over 85% of our team come from Tehla and the villages around it. That is not a statistic about hiring; it is how the forest holds.
We embrace a philosophy of mindful consumption to support the surrounding natural habitat and enable a thriving local ecosystem. Reducing our carbon footprint and investing in the local economy allow us to make a greater impact with the choices we make.
Sariska faces anthropogenic pressures from illegal grazing, the cutting of forest woodlands, and land encroachment from nearby villages. No relocation programme resolves that. A forest holds when the people on its boundary are better off with it standing. That is the village economy Tehla runs on.
Communities
Employment, sourcing, and shared benefit: the least visible part of conservation here, and the part that decides whether any of the rest lasts.
Over 85% of our team members are from Tehla and nearby villages, and we are proud to support local families. Reducing our carbon footprint and investing in the local economy allow us to make a greater impact with the choices we make.
Tehla is surrounded by the Aravalli range, amongst which many small villages are located: Murlipura, Chawa ka baas, Ghewar, Talab, Losal, Nadoo, Nayala, Roopbas, Rajdoli, Mallana, Bhangarh, Naidoli, and Dabkan. The camp sits at Murlipura.
We follow the Zero-mile approach for sourcing fresh ingredients for our seasonal menu, with our own pesticide and chemical-free garden providing vegetables and herbs, and manure from the resident dairy cows nourishing the soil.
Tehla
Tehla enriches Sariska’s conservation legacy through eco-tourism and sustainability. Utsav Camp Sariska sits at Village Murlipura, a kilometre from the reserve and 7 from Gate No. 2: the Tehla gate. Every guest who arrives through it is, in a small way, an argument for the forest being worth more standing than cleared.