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Darjeeling (West Bengal), August 12, 2008: The trial of the two Czech nationals apprehended for illegal insect collection in Singhalila National Park will begin on August 25, the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) said today during a hearing held in...

Darjeeling (West Bengal): The two Czech nationals arrested for wildlife offence near Darjeeling on June 22, have been granted ‘interim’ bail till August 12 by the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, UK Nandi. However, as requested by the...

Kaziranga (Assam): The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) has been granted complete authority on rescue and rehabilitation of flood affected animals, in preparation for the annual monsoon floods in Kaziranga National Park, the park...

By Aniruddha Mookerjee Veraval (Gujarat): Three years of a highly successful whale shark campaign today culminated in the government of Gujarat honouring 22 fishing boat owners, who had voluntarily released whale sharks accidentally caught in their nets in...

Kuthori (Assam): An electric fence along the border of Kuthori Village in Assam has successfully reduced instances of crop raiding by wild animals from the adjacent Kaziranga National Park, allowing the villagers to resume cultivation after a hiatus of over...

Kaziranga NP (Assam): An abandoned two-month old male elephant calf was rescued from the Agoratoli range of Kaziranga National Park by the forest department staff yesterday. The calf, suspected to have been abandoned due to an injury, was transferred to...

Gautam Buddha Nagar (Uttar Pradesh): In a joint operation carried out by the Dadri Police in Uttar Pradesh, the People for Animals (PFA) and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), a Black buck was seized from a resident of Datavali in Uttar Pradesh. The operation...

Kaziranga (Assam): Two rhinos, a mother and a calf, were ruthlessly killed this week in Kaziranga National Park. The mother was alive when its horn was removed and struggled for about 36 hours before succumbing to its wounds on...

Kaziranga  National Park , Assam :  Poachers killed one more rhino, raising the number of deaths to ten  this year, despite the park administration’s claim that enforcement efforts had been...

The calves in their enclosure in CWRC. Manas National Park (Assam) : Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) along with its partner the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Assam forest department has rescued and rehabilitated 13 abandoned elephant calves in...

Assam: With recorded rhino kills by poachers averaging at two per month in 2008, the number of deaths within Kaziranga National Park alone, have risen to 26 since...

The Malabar civet (Viverra civettina) was last seen half a century ago in the forests of Kerela, and is presumed to be extinct. There is not even a photograph in existence. Hopes were raised in 1991when a fresh skin was found. A WTI project is now looking for...

Geneva: The Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Secretariat has endorsed a second one-time international sale of African elephant ivory, about a decade after its first. The Secretariat has also recommended China as an importer of...

Darjeeling (West Bengal): Two Czech citizens including an entomologist of national repute were arrested from Srikhola in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, on Sunday for possessing rare insects. About 500 beetles and two bottles containing preserved insects...

Tokyo: A Japanese court let go the country’s worst ivory smuggler with a most lenient penalty, while officials at the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry scheme to market his three tons of contraband into legal...

New Delhi: To spread awareness on wildlife law and to reinforce the fight against wildlife crime, the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) today officially launched a website, www.wildlifelaw.in containing information on the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and a...

Kohora (Assam): A one-month-old barking deer was rescued this morning from Kohora, Assam and was taken to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in Kaziranga National Park for...

Beijing: A new poll has established that the attitude of the Chinese people towards wildlife is changing, with over 90 per cent of the respondents supporting the existing ban on tiger trade. The result of the poll conducted among 1,880 people from seven major...

Penguins being washed Chubut (Argentina): The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has successfully cleaned 66 penguins and 38 grebes, among the victims of the ‘Mysterious Oil Spill’ that was detected on December 26 last year in Patagonia,...

Wayanad (Kerala):In a significant step for protecting the Brahmagiri – Tirunelli elephant corridor in Southern India, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has acquired a part of the Valiya Emmadi village as part of its efforts to relocate the five villages which...