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New Delhi: In September 2001, WTI was awarded a contract by the Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal forest departments to conduct a nine-month study of the illegal trade in wildlife, its parts and products in these two states, including the Indo-Nepal...

Chilla: With the active support of the Uttaranchal Forest Department, WTI has been able to put into practice a schematic feeding schedule for the rescued elephant calf Mahesh Yogi at Rajaji National Park (RNP). Latest reports from WTI volunteer Ms. Kadambari,...

New Delhi: The Samrakshan Trust presented the first Simha Mitra (Friends of the Lion) awards to three forest guards and two range officers of the Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary in Village Agraa, Vijaypur subdivision, District Sheopur, Madhya...

Tigers: ‘The Italians’Date of Birth: N/A King, Royale, Harak and Zeudy were rescued from appalling conditions by the Big Cat Project. The five tigers had been confiscated from an Italian circus and caged in a tiny ‘beast-wagon’ for...

Bangalore: For Ginny, Royale, Zeudy, Harak, King and Roque, six hybrid tigers(of Sibreian strain) rescued from captivity in Europe, the Bannerghatta National Park, has become their new home. On Monday (April 29, 2002) they were released into a brand new...

New Delhi: Dudhwa Tiger Reserve is faced with a piquant situation. The dominant male rhino , Baanke, has been fighting so much for his females, that he has ended up killing two rivals and injuring many others. His extreme behaviour has the Forest Department...

For the first time in India, former Army commandos trained forest guards in the art of fighting bare handed. With poaching being the second largest income generating illegal business after narcotics, most poachers have access to sophisticated weaponry. In...

Wildlife Trust of India v. State of Karnataka The case challenged establishment of a paramilitary shooting range on the fringes of Bannerghata National Park, Karnataka. The Karnataka High Court ordered removal of CRPF from the shooting range. CRPF has carried...

New Delhi: The tiger is being relentlessly poached in the north-east Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and in the contiguous forests in the neighbouring Tibet Autonomous Region of China by poachers from Burma, renowned biologist George Schaller...

New Delhi: During the year, WTI continued to provide support to CITES issues. WTI attended two CITES Standing Committees meetings (Paris and Geneva), one Animals Committee meeting in the United States. WTI personnel were on the Indian...

Kaziranga: Quick and proactive action by the Assam Forest Department officials and local people saved an elephant calf from being displaced from its natal herd in Golaghat...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on April 8 expressed concern over financial mismanagement in wildlife parks. It expressed concern over the way funds were being diverted by the states for other uses. The Court was hearing a petition filed by Mr. Ashok Kumar,...

New Delhi: Actor turned whale conservationist, Pierce Brosnan, has launched a personal and compassionate appeal to save the world’s great whales, and has partnered with International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), WTI’s international partner, to...

New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court on March 19, 2002 stopped the draining of five wetlands crucial for the survival of the world’s largest concentration of the endangered Sarus cranes. These five wetlands in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,...

Bangalore: The Central Reserve Police Force is in the process of vacating the 553 acres that it had occupied in the reserve forest adjoining Bannerghatta National Park. On September 12, 2001, the Karnataka High Court, in a landmark judgement had stopped the...

New Delhi: For bazee.com, it was just another auction. But for Wildlife Trust of India it was an eye-opener. A tiger skin was under the hammer for $1 million on the site, and was being touted as the world’s largest tiger skin, at 11ft 7...

New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court today admitted a writ petition that seeks to stop the Uttar Pradesh State Government from draining the wetlands in the districts of Etawah and Mainpuri, which provide shelter to the world’s largest concentration of...

Rajaji: An elephant died of suspected poisoning near the Motichur Rest House in the Rajaji National Park. Some forest field staff found the tusker, around 14 to 16 years of age, when it was in a very weak condition and was bleeding from the mouth and anus,...

The words stare out at you “Paddy Thief”, scrawled in Assamese on the back of a dead female elephant, found recently in a paddy field on the outskirts of Tezpur town in Assam. The words obviously referring to the elephant herds that have...

Rajaji: They may be the biggest mammals to walk the Indian jungles but when it comes to railways crossings, these mammoth creatures hardly match up to speeding trains. About 23 km of the railway tracks between the north Indian cities of Haridwar and Dehradun...