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Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, March 20, 2017: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) this morning commenced a five-day training workshop titled “Conservation Action: Focus on Human-Wildlife Interface” for 14 IFS probationers from the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy...

Kaziranga National Park, March 19, 2017: WTI and Elephant Family organised an Annual Planning-cum-Review Meeting of the Green Corridor Champions in Assam at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation in Panbari on March...

Jammu & Kashmir, March 17, 2017: Working in partnership with the Jammu & Kashmir Department of Wildlife Protection, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) today completed the last of a series of Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Training Workshops for frontline...

Mysuru, Karnataka, March 15, 2017: IFAW-WTI has provided ex-gratia support of Rs 100,000 to the family of 28-year-old Murigeppa Tammangol, a forest guard who was killed on duty on February 19 while trying to douse a forest fire that had broken out in Bandipur...

Sonitpur West Forest Division, Assam, March 13, 2017: A wild buffalo that had been treated last month by a Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) team from CWRC is showing signs of improvement, an observation team of the forest department has...

Manas National Park, March 11, 2017: Reports from the field confirm that one of the female eastern swamp deer translocated from Kaziranga National Park to Manas National Park late last month has given...

Manas National Park, March 8, 2017: A seven-day special workshop on wildlife offense report writing was organised for frontline staff of Manas National Park by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) with support...

Jorhat, Assam, March 5, 2017: Working in concert with the Assam Forest Department (AFD), a Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) team recently helped resolve a conflict situation by assisting a leopard that had strayed into a human...

CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, February 27, 2017: A pair of western hoolock gibbons under long-term care at CWRC was shifted to a pre-selected acclimatisation site in the adjoining Panbari Reserve Forest on February 25. This is first step in the gibbons’...

Sutrapada, Gujarat, February 22, 2017: A neonatal whale shark was rescued by a local fisherman in the coastal waters off the fishing village of Sutrapada on the morning of February 18. This self-documented rescue was the fifth encounter with whale shark pups...

Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar, February 21, 2017: WTI, in association with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur and the Bihar State Forest Department, has provided women from Done Valley, Valmiki Tiger Reserve, training in the weaving...

Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, February 20, 2017: Nine days ago, a WTI Rapid Response Team assisted the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department in tranquilising and capturing a tiger that was declared a man-eater after having killed multiple people in the fringe areas of...

Kaziranga National Park, Assam, February 14, 2017: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and Elephant Family, in a joint venture with Duarbagori Cooperative Society Limited (DBCSL) have developed a cadre of local individuals called the Green Corridor Champions...

Gelephu, Bhutan, February 13, 2017: As part of the ongoing efforts to train, equip and boost the morale of forest department personnel in Bhutan, IFAW-WTI conducted a two-day technical workshop on Call Data Records (CDR) analysis for a select group of...

Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Odisha, February 13, 2017: A Wildlife Trust of India Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) unit rescued a Russell’s viper from a deep well in the Baripada Division of Similipal Biosphere Reserve (SBR) on February...

Jaipur, Rajasthan, February 7, 2017: An increasing number of kites in the air during Makar Sankranti and a sharper than ever competitive edge in kite-fighting has turned areas in Rajasthan and Gujarat into killing fields for their bird...

Tinsukia, Assam, February 6, 2017: AMobile Veterinary Service (MVS team) from IFAW-WTI’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) chemically immobilised and provided supportive treatment to an injured female wild buffalo at Hokunguri Tea...

Kunhimangalam, Kerala, February 6, 2017: A one-day mangrove awareness camp was organised for schoolchildren on February 2, celebrated as World Wetlands Day to mark the signing of the Ramsar Convention on wetlands in 1971, at the WTI-Apollo Tyres Kannur Kandal...

Bhimrana, Gujarat, February 02, 2017: In order to build awareness about the importance of coral reef ecosystems and create a sense of involvement in coral reef conservation among local fishing communities, Wildlife Trust of India organised a community...

Haa Dzongkhag, Bhutan, January 31, 2017: A Wildlife Crime Prevention training workshop for frontline staff of the Jigme Khesar Strict Nature Reserve and Haa Territorial Range was conducted yesterday in Haa,...