Seven arrested for tiger killing and illegal trade in south India
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Mysore, October 22, 2012: The Karnataka Forest Department and Karnataka Forest Criminal Investigation Department, with the assistance of WTI, seized a tiger skin and bone from the BRT range (Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary).
CBD CoP 11 : Securing wildlife corridors as an avenue to halt the loss of biodiversity
Asian elephants Hyderabad, October 17, 2012: The Project Elephant in collaboration with the International Fund... Read More
Animal Action Education in Assam
Guwahati, October 16, 2012: A four-day Animal Action Education awareness programme for school children was held at the Regional Science Centre – Guwahati on October 4-7.
CBD CoP : IFAW WTI advocates empathy for animals to achieve the convention’s targets
Hyderabad, October 12, 2012: Advocating welfare of individual animals as a necessity for conservation, the International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI) stressed on the need for empathy for all life forms.
CBD CoP 11 begins – 193 countries in India’s cyber city to discuss biodiversity conservation
Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), October 8, 2012: Delegates from 193 member countries began discussions on biodiversity conservation in Hyderabad today with the launch of the eleventh Conference of Parties of the Convention for Biological Diversity.
Animal Action Education for students during Wildlife Week
New Delhi, October 6, 2012: Thousands of schools across the country, including 200 in Guwahati, will be participating in the world’s biggest animal - centric educational programme – the International Fund for Animal Welfare Animal Action Education.
Water level rising again in Kaziranga, wildlife rescue teams on high alert
Kaziranga National Park (Assam), September 24, 2012: Wildlife rescue team of the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) are on high alert anticipating a second wave of flood in Kaziranga National Park after incessant rains.
Support provided to people injured in conflict with elephant
Kokilabari (Greater Manas, Bodoland), September 18, 2012: Three people undergoing treatment for injuries incurred during a human-elephant conflict case in the fringes of Manas National Park were provided monetary support by the IFAW.
Securing the Kalapahar Daigurung elephant corridor
Silonijan (Karbi Anglong), September 13, 2012: One-fifth of the population of Asian elephants in India lives in Assam.The Kaziranga - Karbi Anglong Elephant Reserve in Central Assam is one of the state’s five elephant reserves.
Against All Odds: Conservation during crisis
Manas (Assam), September 11, 2012: This August, a devastating flood made way for devastating bloodshed as ethnic communal riots broke out across Assam.
Protecting tigers in Central India
Nagzira-Nawegaon (Maharashtra), September 10, 2012: India is home to 60% of the global tiger population with just 25% of the global tiger habitat. The Central Indian Tiger Landscape covers 35% of the forest areas of the states of Maharashtra, Madhy
Hand raised tiger travels from Assam to Chhattisgarh
Kaziranga (Assam), August 31, 2012: A female tiger cub, hand-raised at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in Assam, is being moved to Nandan Zoo in Raipur, Chattisgarh today.