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Dharchula (Uttarakhand): For effective wildlife trade control across the porous Indo-Nepal border, authorities from India and Nepal met today for a two-day workshop, in the bordering town of Dharchula in the northern Indian state of...

Pakke (Arunachal Pradesh): Three orphaned Asiatic black bear cubs are being walked in Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, for acclimatisation, and eventual rehabilitation in the...

Kaziranga (Assam): A wild elephant calf, stuck in a mud pit at a tea garden near Kaziranga National Park in Assam, was rescued and reunited with its mother, by the Assam Forest Department in an effort assisted by IFAW-WTI (International Fund for Animal...

New Delhi: British Conservative MP and Shadow Environment Secretary, Nick Herbert, has stressed on the need for a change in the approach to save the earth’s ecosystems ‘worth trillions of...

  Manas National Park (Assam): Three orphaned Asiatic black bears, hand-raised by the IFAW-WTI (International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India), have been returned to the wild in Manas National Park, Assam, following a sustained period...

Yarmouth Port (USA): Leonardo DiCaprio and  IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org) today announced the start of Animal Action Week, one of the world’s largest environmental education programmes spread across a number of...

Manas (Assam): An Asian small clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea) caught in a fishing net was successfully rescued and released back into the wild in Manas Tiger Reserve by the Assam Forest Department and International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of...

Jodhpur (Rajasthan): A blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) was shot dead by poachers in the outskirts of Rawar village in Jodhpur district, Rajasthan, yesterday. A case has been filed against two accused persons – residents of a nearby Bala village –...

Kokrajhar (Assam): In a move to facilitate wildlife rehabilitation in Bodoland, the local government and the Forest Department have finalised setting up of a transit camp to temporarily house displaced wild animals. The camp will have facilities to attend to...

Kokrajhar (Assam): Two rare clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) cubs being hand-raised by Bodoland Territorial Council – International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India (BTC-IFAW-WTI) will soon be moved to Kachugaon Forest Division,...

Faridabad (Haryana): The Haryana environment court today resumed hearings in the criminal case against Mansur Ali Khan, also known as the Nawab of Pataudi and others for allegedly hunting a blackbuck in June 2005. This is contrary to the rumours being spread...

Delhi: Four years of perhaps the most successful animal campaign in India culminated last month with the celebration of a ‘day’ dedicated exclusively to the target species- the whale shark. An honour that has been conferred to no other species in...

Hazira (Gujarat): Vultures in the coastal region near Hazira in Surat, have found a firm friend in a project initiated several years ago by the Bird Conservation Society of Gujarat and the Nature Club of Surat run by a member of IFAW-WTI Emergency Relief...

Dinjan (Assam): A sub-adult female leopard, found in a critical state on September 9 in Dinjan Military Station, Dibrugarh, Assam, was released in Joypur Reserve Forest last week by the Forest Department, following treatment provided with the assistance of...

New Delhi: The Tis Hazari Trial Court today recorded evidence of the last witness, VB Dasan, Wildlife Inspector, in a pending wildlife trade case against Sansar Chand, paving way for the trial to move to a conclusion and a verdict. The next date of hearing...

Dehradun (Uttarakhand): For long-term conservation of Asian elephants in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, experts met in Dehradun last week for a two-day workshop to discuss ways of securing critical elephant corridors and mitigating human-elephant...

Chennai: The Madras High Court, in an interim judgment Thursday, passed the ruling in favour of the Tamil Nadu Forest Department in a case against private establishments which obstructed movement of wild elephants in Segur Plateau and around Mudumalai Tiger...

Delhi: Latest pictures of Tibetans burning thousands of dollars worth of wild animal articles, have emerged from Tibet reviving memories of a tradition that began about three years...

Srinagar: The Jammu & Kashmir Wildlife Protection Department and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) organised an inter-school awareness event in Delhi Public School, Srinagar, last Thursday. Students of 12 schools from the Valley participated in various...

Pakke (Arunachal Pradesh): In a move away from cash compensations, 7700 kgs of rice were given away to 140 farmers whose crops were destroyed by elephants around Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary in the north-east Indian Arunachal Pradesh...