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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...

New Delhi: Since July 2001, WTI’s enforcement assistance unit has been associated with at least 30 seizures: seven in July, three each in August and September, two in October, five in November, and six in December. Most seizures have taken place in U.P,...

New Delhi: Poachers electrocuted one rhino in Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary on January 9, near its northeastern border near Kuranibari village. Two of the poachers were also electrocuted in the process, while the other two escaped. Police have recovered the...

Guwahati: Wildlife Trust of India, as part of Wild Rescue programme is establishing India’s first wildlife rehabilitation centre in northeast India, in the state of Assam. The centre will be involved in the rescue of wild animals, which have been...

Sonari (Assam): A female elephant calf of about six months was rescued from Sonari in Sibsagar Forest Division in Assam on Friday last week. An attempt to locate its natal herd failed and the calf was moved to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and...

Kaziranga (Assam): A female tiger cub of about four months was found dead in the Hatikuli Tea Estate adjoining the southern boundary of Kaziranga National Park in Assam this morning. Another cub, a male of same age, was found seriously ill yesterday noon in...

Kaziranga (Assam): One more rhino of Kaziranga National Park, Assam fell prey to poachers’ bullets on December 16, bringing the total number killed this year to a record...

Mayurbhanj (Odisha): 10 Ho tribesmen living in and around Simlipal Tiger Reserve have put down their traditional hunting weapons vowing to not hunt wild animals again, after a series of awareness drives conducted by the FD and WTI, supported by...

Motichur (Uttarakhand): An Indian rock python that had strayed into a culvert in Motichur, Naibasti area was rescued by the Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS- Uttarakhand) of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) with the help of the Forest Department staff on...

Phura (Mizoram):A rare Asian brown tortoise (Manouria emys) was rescued from a resident of Phura Village in the southern district of Saiha in Mizoram, and released into the wild by the members of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) – Emergency Relief...