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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...

Bhopal: Four Kalandars who have jointly set up a poultry farm last November in Bhopal, are excited over their prospects this New Year as they had good profits in the first month of their...

New Delhi: The Gujarat government in western India has announced a compensation of Rupees 25,000 for each fishing net that is damaged in attempts to save the whale...

New Delhi: Hundreds of Tibetans at Bodh Gaya after watching the film “Say no to wildlife products” produced by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) said they will not use wildlife products and would prevent others from buying...

Gland, Switzerland:The World Conservation Union (IUCN) recently released its 2007 Red List of Threatened Species. The list, widely recognized as the most reliable evaluation of the world’s species reveals the startling truth of the precarious existence of...

Ahmedabad: Hundreds of birds die every year, including some rare species during the January kite-flying season in western Gujarat state making it one of the biggest man-made disasters in...

Veraval in Gujarat came alive on September 23 as members of the Kharva fishing community came together to take part in a traditional event to mark the birth anniversary of Ramdev Maharaj, their...

New Delhi: A two-day workshop aimed at discussing a National Policy for Human-Leopard Conflict Management concluded today in New...

New Delhi: The much-awaited Animal Action Week 2007 is all set to fire the imagination of schoolchildren across the country. The fifth in its series in India, this annual event reaches out to impressionable young minds, aiming to generate awareness among...

Bihar: Hidden camera traps are proving to be an effective method for spotting the elusive big cats in Valmiki Tiger Reserve, where natural sighting of the animal has become...

China, October 15 : A South-China tiger, thought to be ‘functionally extinct’ in the wild, was photographed in Shanxi Province in China by the task force initiated in 2006 by the Provincial Forestry Department and the local county government ....

Manas – Assam: Two hand-raised orphaned rhinos arrived at Manas National Park this morning after a 12-hour-long truck journey from their previous home at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in...

Talodi Range (Maharashtra): The Maharashtra Forest Department has ordered the capture of a tiger which has claimed 3 human lives in the vicinity of the Tadoba Andheri Tiger Reserve. Armed forest guards are on the look out for the two predators in the Talodi...

New Delhi: Conservationists are excited at the discovery of a new nesting site of the endangered Greater Adjutant stork in the eastern Indian state of...

Ashok Kumar with inputs from Rosa Argent of IFAW One of the routes to the decimation of wild species has been shut down: The fur trade of Srinagar in Kashmir valley. The process began some years back in 1997. The time had come, late no doubt, that a licensed...