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Kaziranga : A four-month-old female rhino calf was rescued from the surging flood waters in the Kaziranga national Park yesterday. The calf, which was badly injured, was brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) and is now...

Borjhuri: A pair of sub-adult tigers, which had strayed out of the Kaziranga National Park(KNP) in the north-eastern Assam state, were rescued and released within 24 hours of their capture, in a joint operation by the forest department and the Wildlife Trust...

The rescue and the decision to release the sub-adult tigers in the Kaziranga National Park in the north-eastern Assam state, happened so fast that we at WTI were scrambling to get photographers and video crews in place and in time. Guwahati based film-maker,...

Tamuli Pathar Village , Kaziranga : A large adult tigress, suspected to be the mother of the two cubs rescued from this village on Sunday, severely mauled the mahout of an Assam forest department elephant, which had rangers trying to dart her on Wednesday...

Kaziranga : An annual feature of nature’s fury unleashes in the form of floods at Kaziranga National Park and displaces hundreds of animals from their...

All roads of Porbandar, the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, led to the Chowpatty beach this Sunday, as thousands of residents converged here to accord a ceremonial welcome to the world’s largest fish. Aniruddha Mookerjee recounts a never-before...

Kaziranga: A two month old female leopard cub was rescued from the Doom Dooma forest near Tinsukia, affected by the recent floods in the Brahmaputra river in India’s north-eastern Assam state. It was brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and...

Ahmedabad: Visitors to the Centre of Environment Education (CEE) in Ahmedabad were amazed at the sight of a 40 ft fish on the lawns. As each of the 1500 visitors touched and felt this man-made wonder, it was obvious that Vhali the whale shark was clearly the...

Kaziranga: A third round of floods has totally cut off road traffic to Kaziranga National Park (KNP) from Guwahati in India ’s north eastern Assam state. The road was under 10 feet of water at Naogaon yesterday and an alternate route to KNP through Tezpur...

Kaziranga: Yet another rhino calf was rescued from the floods and brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC), where its wounds were treated by the Centre veterinarian. This brings the count of rhino calves at the Centre to...

Kaziranga, Assam : Delayed reports from the field and video replays of the attack by the tigress on the mahout Satya Pegu, tell a different story, where human lives were saved purely due to “quick thinking” by the female working elephant,...

New Delhi : Over thirty years after the introduction of the Wildlife Protection Act, which banned the catching of snakes in India , a small community of snake charmers continues to practice its trade catching over 400,000 snakes every year, which ultimately...

Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh : An inflatable boat that was rapidly arranged by the Wild Rescue programme of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has finally reached its destination after a week’s delay enroute. The arrival of the boat has finally facilitated attempts...

Guwahati: Three elephants were killed by a speeding train and two were injured yesterday on a railway track running through Rani-Garbhanga Reserve Forest and Deepar Beel Wildlife Sanctuary near Azara Railway station near Guwahati , Assam . The three elephants...

New Delhi: Ashok Kumar, Senior Advisor and Trustee, Wildlife Trust of India has been at the forefront of the fight against poachers and illegal trade of wildlife and wildlife derivatives in India for over two decades. Here he recounts an interesting case of a...

  London : A shocking new exhibit in London ’s Docklands was unveiled today to act as a memorial to the millions of elephants gunned down to feed the ivory trade. The exhibit, a huge bloody tusk has been built out of more than 700 pieces of ivory given...

Dachigam National Park : Unknown to the media, an initiative taken by Wildlife Trust of India at the grass-roots level in Dachigam National Park has infused fresh hope for protection of the habitat of the hangul in the north Indian state of Jammu and...

New Delhi: For the little girl who grew up in war-ravaged England in the 1940s, the stories of Tarzan and Dr Dolittle, who lived in the jungles of Africa with their wild companions, were to change her life forever. Determined to share a forest home with...

KAZIRANGA: A four-month-old female elephant calf has been rescued by forest guards from the forests of the Karbi Anglong district in Assam and is now being treated at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation(CWRC)...

KAZIRANGA: A female calf was rescued yesterday near from a thickly forested area between Bhalukpong and Tippi in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal...