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Sambalpur (Orissa): Five persons were apprehended in two days by the Orissa Forest Department assisted by locals – members of Village Protection Committees – in Redakhol Division in Sambalpur, Orissa last weekend. Three guns and 25 kgs of bear...

Kaziranga (Assam): In an exemplary management of a potential human-animal conflict, a leopard trapped in a narrow culvert in the northeast Indian state of Assam was successfully rescued through collaborative efforts of authorities and local people. It was...

Kokrajhar (Bodoland, Assam): A year after two orphaned clouded leopard cubs were successfully hand-raised and released in the forests along the Indo-Bhutan boundary, two more cubs of these rare felines have been admitted for rehabilitation at the Centre for...

New Delhi: A two-day International Conference on Tiger Conservation will be held at the Indian capital next week to discuss challenges, plans and priorities towards achieving the recently-adopted goal of doubling the world’s tiger population by 2022. The...

Bhopal: After a five-day journey covering 2012 kms, the male tiger on its way from the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in Assam safely reached its destination, the Van Vihar National Park, on Friday evening.The four year old...

New Delhi: The Court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Special Acts), Tis Hazari, Delhi, Ajay Gupta, convicted an ivory trader and sentenced him to two years imprisonment with a fine, on...

Guwahati (Assam): Quick thinking and prompt action by members of the joint patrolling team deployed to prevent train-elephant collisions along the critical Deepor Beel railway stretch near Guwahati, recently averted an accident saving a herd of about 15 wild...

Sutrapada (Gujarat): A whale shark was satellite-tagged for the first time in India, earlier this week, as part of research to understand behavior, ecological preferences and migration of this...

Kaziranga National Park: An Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) cub admitted to the IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) by the Assam Forest Department officials after it was found in a village near Kaziranga National...

Bhopal: In the run up to the International Bear Association (IBA) Conference 2012 to be hosted by India, the first in a series of state level workshops on sloth bear conservation and welfare was held today in...

Manas National Park (Assam): An adult male tiger, captured following conflicts with people in Sibsagar district in northern Assam and released in Manas National Park more than eight months ago, was photographed in the wild last month.The tiger was...

Redakhol (Sambalpur, Orissa): Cricket fever has gripped the entire nation and wildlife conservationists have jumped on to the bandwagon too, using this popular sport to benefit their...

Toribari (West Bengal): Toribari, an agrarian village that earlier incurred intensive crop losses due to conflicts with elephants, has recorded zero damage since the installation of an Early Warning System (EWS) as part of a Rapid Action Project (RAP) in...

Mithapur (Gujarat): Local fishermen, Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL) volunteers and the Gujarat Forest Department staff joined the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) in a day-long operation to restore overturned corals in Mithapur reef on Friday, as part of their...

New Delhi: For welfare of elephants in captivity in the National Capital Region (NCR), a free health camp was organised today at Sangam Vihar by the Project Elephant and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). Special reflectors to be fitted on to the elephants to...

Manas (Bodoland, Assam): Even as the five hand-raised elephant calves from the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) were moved to Manas National Park for rehabilitation, the International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of...

Kaziranga (Assam): A young rhino calf found near its mother’s carcass in Kaziranga National Park in Assam last week, has been admitted to the IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) for rehabilitation. The six-month old male...

Manas (Bodoland, Assam): Five ‘rescued’ elephant calves were relocated from the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) for reintegration with wild herds in Manas National Park in the northeast Indian state of Assam,...

Dibru Saikhowa WLS: A male wild buffalo, hand-raised at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) near Kaziranga National Park, has been relocated to Dibru Saikhowa Wildlife Sanctuary for rehabilitation, by the Assam Forest Department and...

Gujarat: Initiating tagging of whale sharks in India for long term research, a female individual accidentally caught in a fishing net in Sutrapada in Gujarat was implanted with a visual marker on Wednesday. DNA sample was also collected while the team worked...