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New Delhi: They now look at the rhino with different eyes. They have transformed from being poachers to becoming protectors. They are fifteen former rhino poachers, who gave up their arms recently, and took up conservation work in prime rhino habitat in...

Guwahati: The little town of Nowgaon, 120 km from Guwahati, hosts perhaps the last of the greater adjutant stork nesting sites. The clutch of silk cotton tress, located in this bustling town hold the nests of this brid, now declared as one of the most...

News Courtesy – Indian Express Reporter: Sonu Jain New Delhi: In a travesty of the law, an IAS officer of Secretary rank in Assam has been cleared of criminal charges in a case of hunting in a reserved forest, on the ground that he is suffering from...

Sonepur is a small non-descript town in Saran district of Bihar. Despite its unremarkable environs, two of its features are astonishingly large. The first is its railway platform, probably the second largest in the world with a length of 2,415 ft, second only...

Rajaji National Park: Barely 11 months after the gory killing of five tuskers in Corbett National Park, poachers have struck again, this time in the adjoining Rajaji National Park. Two tuskers were poisoned to death and their tusks chopped off with axes in...

New Delhi: December 19th was a special day for Hornbills at the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary– a stronghold of the species– in Arunachal Pradesh’s East Kameng district. That day, a large hoarding carrying a warning that Hornbills are protected...

The Government of India has followed the example of the USA, Australia, the Philippines and other countries by declaring the whale shark a protected species and banning the whale shark trade. The shark (Rhincodon typus) is the largest living fish in the world...

Kaziranga, Assam: Three alleged rhino poachers were arrested, while one surrendered to officials last Saturday, from a village on the fringe of the Kaziranga National Park providing a breakthrough to the beleagured park staff. 14 rhinos have been killed by...

Rajgir (Bihar) : In an ominous warning to the forest staff, an armed group of alleged Maoist extremists yesterday shot dead a six month old bear cub, being rehabilitated inside a forest in the eastern Indian Bihar...

Thousands of migratory Amur falcons have flown in to Pangti village in Nagaland for roosting, even as the wildlife week was celebrated with awareness programmes including the Animal Action Education programme among school...

Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh: An eight month old sloth bear cub was seized last Monday from a kalandar (bear dancer) in Azamgarh District in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh by a team of forest officials. Acting on a tip-off from the Wildlife Trust of India...

By Vivek Menon, Executive Director WTI, author, environmental commentator and an...

Bhubaneshwar (Odisha), October 14, 2013: An IFAW-WTI (International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India) team reached here yesterday to provide emergency relief to animals affected by the super cyclone...

Bhubaneshwar (Odisha), October 14, 2013: An IFAW-WTI (International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India) team reached here yesterday to provide emergency relief to animals affected by the super cyclone...

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Telekunchi (Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh), October 31, 2013: After almost 2 weeks of incessant rainfall, the sun has come out in the last couple of days - a good sign for the openbill storks in Telekunchi district, Andhra...

Pangti (Nagaland), October 21, 2013: Over 3 lakh Amur falcons have arrived in Nagaland and our Protection Squads that have been patrolling the area night and day, report that not a single bird has been hunted so...

Thimphu (Bhutan), October 22, 2013: The Wildlife Conservation Division of Bhutan along with the International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI) have launched a month-long training for around 450 forest rangers for...

New Delhi, October 14, 2013: A special plenary session was held to introduce the Leaders for Nature - India at the CII’s 8th Sustainability Solutions Summit this evening in New...

Two persons from a nomadic tribe were arrested with 21 leopard claws from Trimbakeshwar near Nasik in Central India, last Saturday, by the Maharashtra Forest Department, assisted by International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of...