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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...

Dubai : The Dubai government seized 90 shahtoosh shawls and 10 shahtoosh scarves from Kashmiri owned shops on 31 st July. The seizure was effected using a kit designed and developed by the Metropolitan Police, UK and the International Fund for Animal Welfare...

KAZIRANGA: Domestic elephants in the Northeast are much better cared for and in a better condition than elsewhere in the country. This was the prime observation of wildlife scientists who attended the just-concluded elephant festival...

New Delhi: A raid conducted in Jahangirpuri, Delhi by Shri K.N.Singh, Assistant Director, Wildlife Preservation, Govt. of India, with inspectors of the Wildlife department resulted in a seizure of mongoose hair and brushes along with some equipment used for...

NEW DELHI: A major seizure of wildlife articles were made from Biharigarh in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh last...

KAZIRANGA: A Bay Owl was rescued from the Bokakhat Wildlife Division and brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) here on Wednesday. It was released later the same...

KAZIRANGA: A malnourished sub-adult leopard is biding its time at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) here. It is a six-month old male leopard cub (Panthera pardus) which was recently brought to the CWRC campus form the Sivasagar...

NEW DELHI: Bizarre as it would seem, a forty-year-old domestic elephant’s head was chopped off and its trunk hacked away for its tusks at Kaladi in Kerala’s Ernakulam district on Sunday, reports reaching here today...

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) made a major seizure of 26 shahtoosh shawls from a shop in a downtown five-star hotel here yesterday, according to official sources...

NEW DELHI: A major seizure of 20 leopard skins and 19 otter skins were made by the West Bengal police from Matigara police station area on the outskirts of Siliguri yesterday, according to...

Kaziranga: The six-month old rhino calf that was rescued a fortnight ago underwent a successful surgery for an abscess in her right foreleg yesterday. The calf had been limping ever since it came in and a team of four veterinarians at the Centre for Wildlife...

Bilaspur: A two-day seminar on legal and policy issues concerning wildlife conservation was recently organised here by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) in collaboration with the forest department of Chhattisgarh. The seminar, held here on February 8 and 9...

NEW DELHI: The Fifth Venu Menon Animal Awards were given away by former President, Mr KR Narayanan, at a sombre, but well-attended function at the India Habitat Centre here last...

London: Despite strong protests, three wild elephants removed from a game reserve in South Africa , were transported by a British Airways cargo plane to a zoo in...

New Delhi: A few years ago, a 70-year-old woman was hit by an errant cyclist on the streets. To this day, she cannot walk properly; the knees refuse to cooperate. But that does not stop Edna Simmons from climbing down four floors and a hundred-odd rickety...