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Ahmedabad: A popular religious leader, wildlife conservation NGOs, the forest department and two major business corporations have come together in a unique partnership to protect an endangered species off the coast of Gujarat, the Whale...

Seijosa: The WTI-IFAW Wild Rescue team has rescued a two-month old red panda cub from a government veterinarian in Tawang in the north-eastern Arunachal Pradesh state. The cub has been housed in Pakke and is being looked after by...

New Delhi: The Tibetan antelope, friendly Yingying is all set to shake hands with the world as one among five symbols chosen as the mascots of the Beijing Olympics. Conservationists at the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) reveled at this announcement that was...

Gujarat: The campaign against the killing of Whale Shark launched in February by the Wildlife Trust of India and the International Fund for Animal Welfare has started making waves in coastal towns of the western Indian state of Gujarat . The first ripples...

Bokakhat, Assam: The morning dew had rendered the ground at Borsapori tea estate with slippery earth and treacherous trenches. On that fateful day, an elephant calf was found trapped in one of the trenches of the tea...

Dehradun: Forest and police officials raided a clandestine mongoose hair brush making factory at Vikas Nagar near Dehradun, in the northern Indian Uttaranchal state. The owner of the factory was arrested and 425 finished mongoose hair brushes were seized....

Tezpur: This is an amazing account of a displaced tiger, which attacked three persons, went to jail, and was released without...

New Delhi : The Central Empowered Committee(CEC) appointed by the Supreme court today stayed the proposed bridge over Maniyari River in Achanakmar sanctuary in the central Indian Chhattisgarh state. The proposed bridge was to connect the villages of Chhaparwa...

New Delhi: The Central Empowered Committee appointed by the Supreme court today admitted a petition filed by the Wildlife Trust of India praying for the completion of the relocation of villages on the southern side of Corbett Tiger Reserve, which has been...

Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh : Flash floods have, for the first time, submerged huge tracts of forest land on the east bank of the Pakke river in the north eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh displacing people and wildlife. Earlier unconfirmed reports of 10 deaths...

Dehradun: Water level in springs and waterholes is rapidly falling due to the onset of a premature heat wave in the forests of the Rajaji National Park in the northern Indian Uttaranchal state. This is the time of the year that animals, especially elephants,...

Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh: A 13 ft long python drifting in the flood waters on the east bank of the Pakke river was rescued on Saturday. It was administered saline by the WTI veterinarian at CBRC to stabilize it and then released on the west bank near the...

Ajmer: The law has finally caught up with the kingpin of Indian wildlife traders, Sansar Chand, who was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment, by a court in Ajmer in the western state of...

Rupen (on the Gujarat coast ):In a first of its kind for a wildlife campaign in India, a life-sized model of a whale shark was inflated in this small fishing village drawing huge crowds that watched a street play on the protection of the world’s largest...

Kaziranga : Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a World Heritage Site and home to approximately 1500 of the estimated total population of 2000 Greater one-horned rhinos is once again in the grip of floods. Just two days into the first reports of the floods have...

New Delhi: Those of you who have read Mr. B.K. Sharma’s article in Sanctuary Asia, April 2004 would agree that he has extensively covered current and past problems relating to wildlife crime in India . He has traced well the overall scenario, the laws...

Barpeta Road: Flash floods carrying trees and huge amounts of silt washed away parts of the Manas National Park in India’s north eastern Assam state, killing a large number of deer, the director of the park, Mr Abhijit Rabha, said today. There are no...

Itanagar: The Nyshis, a fiercely traditional tribe in north east India , with their open mind and willingness to adapt have proved to be a reprieve for the magnificent but fast vanishing species of the...

Rushikulya (on the Orissa coast): Each year between the months of March and May, around a hundred thousand female Olive Ridley sea turtles converge to the Rushikulya rookery to lay eggs on the coast of the eastern state of Orissa in India. Only a few thousand...

Kaziranga: A two-year-old wild elephant calf found wandering near a village in Lakhimpur division of the north-eastern Assam state was rescued and sent to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) near Kaziranga. This increases the number...