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Manas: As preparations to tackle potential flood emergencies are on at CWRC, good news poured in for the rehabilitators, as yet another rhino hand-reared here gave birth to a healthy calf in the wild in Manas National...

Karbi Anglong: A free Medical Health Camp was organised for local people in Kalapahar-Doigurung Elephant Corridor dependent villages last Friday, Implemented as part of the Karbi Anglong Conservation...

New Delhi: Wildlife conservation in India is all set to receive a new supporter over the next few days as WTI ties up with the acclaimed UAE band Point of View. The association ensures part proceeds of album sales being donated to...

Sar Kro: WTI has purchased over six acres of land to set up a model ethnic Karbi village to facilitate voluntary relocation of all families of Ram Terang village, currecurrently located within the Kalapahar-Doigurung Elephant...

D’ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary, May 24, 2013: To help the forest staff at the frontline in D’ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh in their duties, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) equipped them with field kits under a Rapid Action...

Roing (Arunachal Pradesh), December 7, 2012: A family of three hoolock gibbons was moved today from the village of Dello, to a safer habitat in Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary, in the third leg of an ongoing project to rescue a group of hoolock...

A binturong also known as a Bearcat was admitted to the Assam Forest Department-IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC). This is for the first time in the CWRC’s decade-long history that this species has been...

A rhino we met thinks that it’s really quite unfair that Shobhaa De has compared his species to human beings in their most despicable form – politicians. Read his argument...

Odisha: To devise a strategy to save the national heritage animal from train hits in the state, the Department of Forests and Environment, Government of Odisha, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Wildlife Trust of India...

Marking a significant milestone in efforts to secure a crucial elephant corridor in northeast India, all residents of a village have put down in stone their willingness to voluntarily relocate outside the corridor to provide a passage for...

Veraval: A new-born whale shark pup recently freed by fishermen in Gujarat after being found caught in a fishing net, has indicated that the world’s largest fish may be breeding...

Greater Manas: To help reduce tree-felling in Greater Manas, the International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI) is helping install improved cooking stoves in local households in the...

Seijosa (Arunachal Pradesh): As a relief measure for 100 human-elephant conflict affected local households around Pakke Tiger Reserve, 10,000 Kilograms of rice was distributed under the grain-for-grain programme, by the Arunachal Pradesh Forest Department and...

Kaziranga National Park: About a month from now, a greater adjutant stork will fly free for the first time in its life. The bird, now six months old, is currently at the Assam Forest Department and IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and...

Karbi Anglong: A female elephant undergoing treatment for paralysis in Karbi Anglong, has once again brought to fore the problem of human-elephant conflicts in the largest (autonomous) district in the northeast Indian state of Assam. The elephant died this...

Dudhwa Tiger Reserve: Preliminary satellite data has indicated ‘healthy’ movement of the Rahmankhera tiger in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, where it was released on April 26. The tiger has so far explored an area of approximately 12 sq km. The adult male tiger...

Alwar: The Court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate – II, Alwar, on Saturday, convicted poacher Kalia Bawaria for hunting a tiger in Sariska Tiger Reserve on May 7, 2003. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 35,000....

Srinagar: The endangered Pir Panjal markhor is fast becoming a driving force for declaration of new protected areas in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Following the creation of Kajinag National Park and extension of Hirpura WLS in 2007, the state...

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): After more than three months of ‘hide-and-seek’ in small forest patches amidst human dominated landscape in Uttar Pradesh, the tiger in Rahmankhera was captured this morning by the rescue team placed by the Forest Department....

WTI, supported by the David Shepherd WIldlife Foundation, handed over a ‘tuktuki’, as the boat is locally called, which has helped the forest department in numerous arrests and seizures. Photo by: Sunil Kyarong/WTI D’ering (Arunachal...