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Wayanad (Kerala): In a significant step for protecting the Brahmagiri – Tirunelli elephant corridor in Southern India, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has acquired a part of the Valiya Emmadi village as part of its efforts to relocate the five villages which...

Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh): Acting on a tip-off given by Wildlife trust of India, forest officials confiscated a five-year-old sloth bear from a house in Azamgarh District in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh last Thursday. The Divisional Forest...

Delhi: In one of the biggest haul of shahtoosh shawls in recent history, a CBI team (Central Bureau of Investigation) seized 57 shahtoosh shawls Monday from three different traders from an upmarket hotel in south Delhi. All three accused, Rashid Khan, Mushtaq...

Panitola (Assam): An inebriated captive elephant was hit by a train and killed Wednesday as it strayed on to the tracks after killing one of its keepers in a fit of anger, officials said. The elephant, which was intoxicated after it drank rice-beer that its...

Tokyo: A Japanese court let go the country’s worst ivory smuggler with a most lenient penalty, while officials at the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry scheme to market his three tons of contraband into legal trade. Japan’s press...

Pobitora (Assam):Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, which has the highest concentration of highly endangered Greater one horned rhinocerous, has been completely submerged by the current flood in the north-east Indian Assam state. The sanctuary has at least 70...

) The District Forest Officer (DFO) at Haridwar in Uttaranchal State, is facing an acute shortage of funds in the wake of the formation of the new State, and needs financial support to maintain the effectiveness of anti-poaching and patrolling operations. WTI...

New Delhi: On March 30, the Wildlife Trust of India launched a scheme of supplementary accident introduced of Protected Area staff, as part of its Van Rakshak Project. This landmark scheme brings all the field staff of the forest departments, working on...

Nepal: The Chitwan District Forest Office (DFO) on March 9 arrested Royal Nepal Army (RNA) Colonel Dilip Shumsher Rana on a charge of having shot a barking deer in the Royal Chitwan National Park. But when Park security guards approached him, he resisted and...

New Delhi: Corbett National Park has reopened, tourists are going in again, and a calm of sorts prevails. Underneath the calm, tension among Park managers is palpable, because expert tribals believed to be from North Eastern India and adept at this method of...

New Delhi: A mobile wild animal clinic cum ambulance, purchased with a grant from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, is being used for WTI’s WILD RESCUE programme in Assam. While the rescue centre is being built, the...

New Delhi: To boost the morale of forest guards chasing a set of determined poachers who have already killed five tuskers in the core area of the Corbett tiger reserve, the Wildlife Trust of India has dispatched 130 sets of warm jackets, sleeping bags, and...

Pobitara: On February 6, 2001 a sub-adult female Barking Deer, that had been confiscated from the Nagaon area and handed over to the Pobitara Wildlife Sanctuary Range Officer Mr Mrigen Barua, was badly bitten and injured by street dogs at the Range Office...

Guwahati: A sub-adult male Slow Loris was bought from the local market of Haflong in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, from a trader and brought to Dr Bhaskar Chaudhary, WTI’s Guwahati-based veterinarian, on January 15, 2001. It was in perfect health...

If you met Paramvir Khati on the streets of Kurseong, you would probably take him to be the local romeo. Tall and well built, fashionably dressed and very fond of playing the guitar, he was quite the local heartthrob. If you met him inside the forests of the...

New Delhi: On April 26, the Delhi Police seized 26.4 kg of ivory products and jewellery worth Rs 2.6 million from two men, indicating the high demand for ivory despite the fact that the trade in Asian ivory was banned in 1986 and that in African ivory in...

New Delhi: On May 2 a training module got underway at the six Forest Ranges that comprise the 1,318.54 sq km Corbett Tiger Reserve. It covers Foresters, Range Officers, other senior forest officers, and even casual workers of the Reserve. The six Forest...

New Delhi: On Sunday, May 13, 2001 one of the largest seizures of birds took place at Delhi International Airport, when 1,200 red munias (also known as Avadavats) and 33 Alexandrine parakeets were seized from Mahendra Pratap, who was smuggling them to Sharjah...

Mumbai: A tiger skin was seized in May from the house of stud farm owner Cooji Katrak in Malabar Hill, Mumbai, along with a number of other wildlife articles, including ivory carvings, python skins (the python is a Schedule I species under the Wildlife...

New Delhi: Kaziranga National Park, on the banks of the river Brahmaputra in Assam, is prone to floods during the monsoon. The floods follow a cycle and increase in severity every two years. During this period thousands of animals, including rhinos and...