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KAZIRANGA: The centre may not have been officially inaugurated as yet, but it is the one which is providing much-needed succour to animals caught all on the wrong foot by rising floodwaters in the Kaziranga National Park. Personnel of the Centre for Wildlife...

The need to provide supplementary accident insurance to field forest staff in India had been felt for a long time by forest officers, as well as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Over the years, as the demand for timber and non-timber forest produce...

Pakhui: A three-month-old elephant calf has died in the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh. The calf, which had been badly lacerated by some carnivore, was rescued by a forest guard from a remote part of the sanctuary about a week...

LEH: Things might just finally be looking up for the Ladakh Urial. From being on the verge of extinction a few decades ago when barely a hundred grazed on the banks of the Indus and Shyok rivers in the cold desert region of Ladakh, the numbers have risen....

Chilla (RNP): A month-old elephant calf has been rescued from the throes of being carried away by swirling waters by wildlife personnel in the Haridwar forest division. Now christened Ganga, the female calf was pulled out of an irrigation canal by staff of...

New Delhi: The Union minister for Textiles, Mr Kashiram Rana’s assertion that his ministry will attempt to lift the ban on shahtoosh weaving has come as a shock to wildlife conservationists who have been campaigning for a stricter ban on shahtoosh...

Chilla: He is a rather unusual baby for a 22-year-old to have, but five-month-old Yogi couldn’t have asked for a more devoted mother than Kadambari Mainker, a volunteer with Wildlife Trust of India, assigned for a month to play mom to a three-month-old...

New Delhi: Large caches of hair used for artist brushes, extracted by slaughtering hundreds of thousands of mongooses, were seized in nationwide raids over the...

New Delhi: An anthrax outbreak in Bori Wildlife Sanctuary, in Hoshangabad district, Madhya Pradesh, has lead to the deaths of two gaurs (Indian Bison). Samples collected from the livestock on the fringes of the sanctuary have shown presence of the anthrax...

New Delhi: In a completely barbaric incident, poachers captured, clubbed to death and skinned a leopard, all of which has been filmed on a video tape by them. The police have arrested two alleged poachers and the photographer who was filming the gruesome...

Nagpur: As many as 25 gaur have died in Nawegaon National Park, Maharashtra due to the onset of an epidemic since March 2002. Many more gaurs may die unless the disease is immediately identified and prevention measures are...

Chilla, May 20, 2002: In early April, when the Mussourie Express was passing thorough the Chilla-Motichur sector of the Rajaji National Park, the driver received a wireless message that an elephant herd was on the tracks. He was able to stop the train in time...

New Delhi, May 20, 2002: The campaign against hunting of hornbills in Arunacahl Pradesh got a shot in the arms with the villagers of Basarnallah in Papum Pare district forming a forest protection committee to prevent the hunting of hornbills. WTI along with...

Chilla: Without the intervention of Rajaji National Park (RNP) Director, Mr. Sunil Pandey, the recently rescued elephant calf may not have got all the care and attention it is getting now. Mr Pandey was one of the first to reach Chiderwala village in Khasnrao...

Chilla:Yogi, the elephant rescued by the Forest Department officials of Rajaji National Park (RNP), has adjusted very well to his new surroundings in the elephant camp in the Chilla...

New Delhi: On April 20, four Olive Ridley turtles became the first sea turtles in India to be released into the sea, each with a satellite transmitter strapped to its back, to enable a group of scientists led by the American turtle expert Dr Jack Frazier to...

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...