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 WTI-IFAW project ensures zero Elephant deaths on Rajaji railway track
Rajaji NP (Uttarakhand), June 17, 2008: Recommendations of a Wildlife Trust of India-International Fund for Animal Welfare study done in 2001 have ensured zero elephant deaths in train accidents on a railway track that crosses the forests of the Rajaji National Park in the northern Indian Uttarakhand state.
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 Huge seizures of mongoose hair brushes in Hyderabad
Hyderabad, June 27, 2006: In one of the biggest seizures of mongoose hair brushes this year, the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department on June 24 has seized more than 18000 paint brushes from several premises allegedly used by the dealers in the Hyderabad city.
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 Alternative oil for a new lease of life to Gangetic Dolphins
Patna, September 13, 2004: A Rapid Action Project (RAP) of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) is popularising the use of an alternative oil, which will help conserve the rare Gangetic dolphin in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.
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 Aid for Olive Ridleys
Rushikulya (Orissa coast), May 11, 2004: Each year between the months of March and May, around a hundred thousand female Olive Ridley sea turtles converge to the Rushikulya rookery to lay eggs on the coast of the eastern state of Orissa in India. Only a few thousand hatchlings survive the journey back to the ocean. Wrought with multiple dangers of predation, erosion and desiccation, the turtle hatchlings find themselves at the losing end of the fight for survival.
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 This beak does not bite
Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), May 7, 2004: The Nyshis, a fiercely traditional tribe in north east India , with their open mind and willingness to adapt have proved to be a reprieve for the magnificent but fast vanishing species of the hornbill. For centuries, the Nyshi tribes people in India ’s remote north eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh have hunted the hornbill. They used the birds’ huge beaks to adorn their headgear.
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 Allahabad High Court verdict to save Sarus cranes
New Delhi, March 20, 2002: The Allahabad High Court on March 19, 2002 stopped the draining of five wetlands crucial for the survival of the world’s largest concentration of the endangered Sarus cranes. These five wetlands in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which are home to over 33 per cent of the global Sarus crane population, were being drained under a World Bank funded wasteland reclamation project. There are only about 9,000 Sarus cranes left in the world.
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