WWCT (the Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation Trust) have been created in 2004 by husband and wife zoologist and ecologist Dr. Andrew Kittle and Anjali Watson, in order to protect the wildlife in Sri Lanka.

Their founding trustees and primary researchers are Dr. Andrew Kittle and Anjali Watson who apart from researching the leopard have also worked on other species (primates, sloths, martens, wolves, lions, hyenas) across habitats (Panama canal island forests, Costa Rica, Canadian boreal forest, Serengeti Tanzania). 

This association aims to preserve, protect and create wilderness areas specifically on the island of Sri Lanka and to protect and conserve its wildlife populations. It wants to be a Trust involved in international wilderness and wildlife conservation and to actively promote the establishment and protection of wilderness areas worldwide.

The Wilderness & Wildlife Conservation Trust fully believes in the ecosystemic approach to conservation.

The goals are :

• Direct conservation of wildlife and wilderness areas inclusive of/via

• Awareness campaigns for conservation of wilderness and wildlife and working with local communities to ensure an equitable balance between the needs of people and the needs of wilderness and wildlife.
• Training personnel in the research and conservation of wilderness and wildlife.