Tata Chemicals Limited pledges Rs 20 million for whale shark & coral conservation |
Tiger in the well !! |
2008 IUCN Red List surprise: Greater one-horned rhinos 'not' endangered
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 Ahmedabad (Gujarat), November 17, 2008: Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL), the Gujarat Forest Department and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) today joined hands to start a pioneering conservation project on whale shark and coral reefs.
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Tezpur (Assam), October 31, 2008: Wednesday began as a normal day for us at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation & Conservation (CWRC) run by International Fund for Animal Welfare- Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI).
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Delhi, October 22, 2008: The greater one-horned rhinoceros is no longer 'endangered', according to the 2008 IUCN Red List update.
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 Leopard 'strays' into house in Assam, rescued
Digboi (Assam), November 20, 2008: An adventurous young male leopard was rescued yesterday by the Assam Forest Department and WTI-IFAW (Wildlife Trust of India – International Fund for Animal Welfare) from Digboi town in the northeast Indian state of Assam. It was later released in the nearby Upper Dihing Reserve Forest.
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 Rare traditional Kashmir pashmina for sale in Delhi
Delhi, November 20, 2008: Buyers looking for authentic and high quality Kashmir handmade pashmina, which was recently awarded the Geographical Indication (GI) of Origin, will be able to purchase them at Dilli Haat in Delhi during the fortnight-long 'Dastkar' festival that began Tuesday.
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 100 cu ft teak seized in Delhi
Delhi, November 20, 2008: More than 100 cubic feet teak, believed to have been illegally-procured, was seized today by authorities at the Old Delhi Railway Station. The teak was sent from Diphu, Assam, through cargo via Brahmaputra Mail. Further investigation is on-going.
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 Wildlife crime prevention training organised in Leh
Leh (J & K), November 13, 2008: The Department of Wildlife Protection, Government of Jammu & Kashmir, Care for the Wild, UK, and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) jointly organised a three-day wildlife crime prevention training programme for the frontline field staff of Leh and Kargil wildlife divisions in Leh, last week.
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 eBay announces ivory ban in wake of IFAW report
San Francisco (California), October 20, 2008: The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) applauds eBay’s decision to institute a global ban on the sale of elephant ivory products by 1 January 2009 and calls on all other internet traders to follow their example.
eBay’s decision was announced just hours before the release of IFAW’s latest investigative report ...
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 CITES-approved ivory sale begins
Namibia, October 29, 2008: The controversial auction of stockpiled ivory from four African nations allowed by the 14th CoP of CITES began yesterday. About 7 tonnes of raw African elephant tusks as well as carved ivory from Namibia were sold to bidders Japan and China.
The ongoing one-off sale of about 108 tonnes of ivory by Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa is the second, since the 1989 international ban on trade in elephant parts.
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 20 get three years imprisonment for hunting Asiatic lions
Junagadh (Gujarat), October 23, 2008: Twenty persons were convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Gujarat court today, for poaching endangered Asiatic lions in Gir National Park in March last year.
The Court of PK Makwana, I class magistrate, Junagadh, announced the sentence which also included a fine of Rs 10,000 each.
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 IFAW Animal Action Week reaches a million in India
New Delhi, October 14, 2008: At least a million students from 2000 schools in India are expected to participate in this year's IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) Animal Action Week (AAW) with the theme "Beneath the Waves – Protecting Marine Wildlife". Organised by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), IFAW's partner in India, the AAW this year aims to educate, sensitise and raise awareness of children on marine wildlife and their habitat, and threats faced by them.
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 Taming traffic in
Bandipur National Park
Bandipur (Karnataka), October 16, 2008: Wild animals trying to cross the road or carcasses of those killed while attempting it, are a common sight for travelers on a 12.5 km stretch within Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, along the Mysore to Ooty state highway. This highway, about 5.5 metres wide, is one of many metalled roads that dissect and fragment the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve of which Bandipur NP is a part.
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 Train accident prevention project gathers momentum in Assam following death of an elephant
Guwahati (Assam), October 17, 2008: A recently-initiated project to 'mitigate elephant mortality due to train accidents' in Assam looks likely to be sped up following the death of a pregnant feral elephant, hit by a goods train, just outside Guwahati, along the track connecting Azara to Kamakhya, yesterday.
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 4 sloth bears readied for Indian Kalandar market seized in Nepal
Delhi, September 17, 2008: Four sloth bears including a cub were rescued by authorities in Lahan in the southeastern Sirhaha district in Nepal, last week, acting on the information provided by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). Three of the four bears were adults trained as dancing bears to be sold to Kalandars in India.
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 WTI tip-off leads to arrest of wildlife traders
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), August 26, 2008: In a major undercover investigative operation, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP-STF) and UP Forest Department, on a tip-off from the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), arrested two experienced wildlife traders in Meerut yesterday.
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 A Kalandar’s life beyond the bear
Nawada (Bihar), June 13, 2008: Mohammad Sovrati returns to his rented apartment late in the evening, tired but satisfied, after a hard day of ferrying load in his new carrier rickshaw. He had bought it a few months ago with funds from an alternative livelihood package made available to Kalandars like him under the Integrated Sloth Bear Conservation and Welfare Project (ISBCWP).
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