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Pilibhit, 22 September 2019: The upcoming harvest season for sugarcane will see a large number of people working in fields that are also preferred refuges of wild carnivores in the Terai region of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Increasing instances of...

Sundarbans, 22 September 2019: Sixty women from three islands in this unique ecosystem managed to release 92,000 prawn associated fauna back into the estuarine environment. Species of fishes, squids, snails, crabs snakes etc. that would have otherwise...

Calicut, 17 September 2019: Wildlife Trust of India organised a quiz contest at Farook College, Calicut on 17th September 2019. The contest was a part of the Kannur Kandal project, focussing on the conservation of mangroves. The Kannur Kandal Project –...

New Delhi, 12 September, 2019: More than 50 senior officials from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, National Tiger Conservation Authority, enforcement agencies and representatives from internet companies and e-commerce, such as Google, Flipkart and India...

Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, 12 September 2019: The key to conservation lies with communities and the best route to reach communities is through youth, as past experience has proved. Under the IUCN-KFW sponsored Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme...

Chennai, 6 September, 2019: Supporting our call to action on Right of Passage for elephants, Southern Railways hosted a regional workshop to discuss the future course of action to reduce elephant mortalities due to collision with speeding trains. The workshop...

August 28, 2019, Nagpur: A workshop aimed to bring together journalists from Nagpur, Chandrapur and Gondia, was organised today at Nagpur to discuss how media can benefit conservation actions through factual and positive reporting. Fifteen journalists and...

Dibrugarh, August 22, 2019: A very difficult rescue operation was conducted successfully by our team of veterinarian, biologist and animal keeper when a leopard was released back to the wild after being tranquilised and removed safely from a house surrounded...

Gondia, August 24, 2019:  Community-based conservation in Vidarbha just got an added fillip when women from three Self Help Groups supported by Wildlife Trust of India won awards for their social enterprises. WTI has been working to facilitate unhindered...

Kaziranga, August 23, 2019: Almost a month after the flood waters submerged 95 percent of Kaziranga National Park, the wildlife rescue centre we run near this UNESCO World Heritage Site has five new resident rhino calves. Rescued under various situations from...

21 August 2019, Geneva Vivek Menon, founder, trustee, executive director and CEO of Wildlife Trust of India, wins the Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award, 2019 for a decades-long career training more than 20,000 wildlife enforcement officers in more...

July 30, 2019 : On July 29, 2019, WTI orchestrated and participated in Global Tiger Day celebrations in a number of its project areas, in concert with local communities, state forest departments, partner NGOs and other supporters. All our major stakeholders...

Wildlife Trust of India, ED & CEO, Vivek Menon said “Continuing our effort for holistic conservation action, we celebrate the new tiger census numbers of 2976 with a commitment to manage the emerging issues of tiger conservation, that of habitat degradation...

Trivandrum, Kerala, July 29, 2019: The UNESCO mandated ‘International Day for the conservation of the mangrove ecosystems’ is celebrated every year on 26July 26. This year International Mangrove Day is indeed a milestone for mangrove conservation...

Raipur, Chattisgarh, July 18, 2019 : Owing to increased instances of human-elephant conflict, the Ministry of Environment Forests & Climate Change (MoEFCC) in the 14th Steering Committee Meeting of the Project Elephant Division last year, had decided to...

Flood waters separate young rhinos from their mothers.  Exhausted and unable to keep up in swirling currents, they land up in backyards of inundated homes, looking for some high ground to lay their tired feet on. Calves below two years of age are brought to...

Kaziranga, Assam, July 19, 2019 : Floodwaters bring in the most unlikely guests. This time it was a tiger at a house in Harmouti in the Kohora range, relaxing on a bed. The IFAW-WTI- Assam Forest Department teams initially considered tranquilising the tiger...

July 18, 2019 : 14th July is celebrated as Shark awareness day around the globe and aims to spread awareness on different species of sharks and their relevance to the ocean & humans at large. Sharks play an essential role in the world’s oceans...

Udantai Sitanadi Tiger Reserve, Chattisgarh, July 12, 2019 : The state of Chhattisgarh accounts for more than 42% of the forest cover in our country. However, it is being highly threatened by habitat degradation from a variety of anthropogenic pressures....

Thimpu, Bhutan , July 15, 2019 : The benefits of having trained and equipped staff on the ground were seen when an Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) whose head was stuck in a kettle was rescued from a monastery in Bhutan last month. Yet another black bear...