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Namibia: The controversial auction of stockpiled ivory from four African nations approved by the 14th CoP of CITES began yesterday. About 7 tonnes of raw African elephant tusks as well as carved ivory from Namibia were sold to bidders Japan and China on the...

Delhi: Buyers looking for authentic and high quality Kashmir handmade pashmina, which was recently awarded the Geographical Indication (GI) of Origin, will be able to purchase them at Dilli Haat in Delhi during the fortnight-long ‘Dastkar’...

Digboi (Assam): An adventurous young male leopard was rescued yesterday by the Assam Forest Department and WTI-IFAW (Wildlife Trust of India – International Fund for Animal Welfare) from Digboi town in the northeast Indian state of Assam. It was later...

Sivasagar (Assam): Despite drastic decline in populations of several vulture species in the 1990s that edged them menacingly towards extinction, vultures continue to fall victim to human apathy even today. Although efforts are being made by governments as...

Charlottetown (PEI, Canada): Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) will close the first zone of the seal hunt today after the earliest group of sealers killed 17,200 harp seals thus far. DFO is set to re-open the hunt in another area of the Gulf...

Pallivasal (Kerala): Two persons were arrested in Pallivasal, Munnar, on Saturday, for illegal attempts to sell stuffed and mounted wild animal trophies. Mounted heads of a tiger and a leopard were seized from the...

Moscow (Russia): Yesterday, Yuriy Trutnev, Russia’s Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology announced a complete ban on the hunting of all harp seals less than one year of age. This historic end to Russia’s harp seal hunt was applauded by IFAW (The...

Bokakhat (Assam): A rare Oriental bay owl awaits its return to the wild at the IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) near Kaziranga National Park, Assam. It was admitted to CWRC yesterday by Assam Forest Department officials....

Dindigul (Tamil Nadu): A tiger skin and a leopard skin were seized yesterday at Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, in a joint undercover operation by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) assisted by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI)....

Sambalpur (Orissa): A wildlife trader was arrested on Saturday near Charmal town in Sambalpur district of the eastern Indian state of Orissa. The arrest was made in an undercover operation conducted by Orissa Forest Department officials, assisted by the...

Guwahati (Assam): A recently-initiated project to ‘mitigate elephant mortality due to train accidents’ in Assam looks likely to be sped up following the death of a pregnant feral elephant, hit by a goods train just outside Guwahati, along the...

Diphu (Karbi Anglong): The Department of Environment and Forests, Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), supported by the Japan Wildlife Conservation Society, held a two-day training workshop for the Forest...

New Delhi: Late last night three people were caught red handed and arrested with two leopard skins in western Uttar Pradesh. The traders had been tracked in decoy deals over several months by members of the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP STF) and...

Delhi: More than 100 cubic feet teak, believed to have been illegally-procured, was seized today by authorities at the Old Delhi Railway Station. The teak was sent from Diphu, Assam, through cargo via Brahmaputra Mail. Further investigation is...

Kaziranga, Assam: An adult one horned rhino was treated for an injury today in Kaziranga National Park. “The rhino was sighted by Forest Department personnel this morning in the Burapahar range; they noticed the injury and informed us,” narrates...

Guwahati (Assam): Senior officials of the Assam Forest Department, Northeast Frontier Railway and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), met yesterday at the Assam State Zoo to formulate strategies to mitigate elephant deaths in railway accidents in the northeastern...

Delhi: The greater one-horned rhinoceros is no longer ‘endangered’, according to the 2008 IUCN Red List update. This, despite the fact that a single epidemic could wipe out about three quarters of the world’s population which inhabits...

  New Delhi:The efforts to save the Tibetan Antelope got a boost yesterday when Delhi High Court dismissed the plea of a shahtoosh shawl trader to stay proceedings against him brought about on charges of possessing shahtoosh shawls. The origin of the...

Ahmedabad (Gujarat): Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL), the Gujarat Forest Department and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) today joined hands to start a pioneering conservation project on whale shark and coral...

Alipurduar (West Bengal): The Additional District Judge of Alipurduar, West Bengal, yesterday rejected the appeal of Ratiram Sharma, the notorious wildlife trader, upholding his conviction and sentence, announced by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate,...