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Kaziranga, June 15, 2015: With increasing possibility of Kaziranga National Park being inundated by the raging Brahmaputra, IFAW-WTI-run CWRC has started pre-flood awareness campaign for the safety of wildlife in the fringe villages around the...

Umrangso, October 31, 2015: The town of Umrangso in Assam witnessed two days that had fun, music and dance written all over it. The town got together to celebrate the first ever two day Falcon Festival organised by Blue Hills Society and supported...

Wayanad, June 3, 2015: WTI under its Executive Director’s Discretionary Grant provided Rs 20,000 to a tiger attack victim near Wayanad WLS. The cheque was handed over to him at the hospital by the Range Forest Officer in the presence of WTI...

Wardha, October 30, 2015: Under the Working with Communities initiative, WTI in technical collaboration with Centre of Science for Villages organised a three-day training programme for six SHG members at Women’s Science Park in...

Kaziranga, June 19, 2015: The ongoing pre-flood awareness campaign in Kaziranga with support from Elephant Family and Kaziranga Forest Authority saw the youth from the corridor villages being trained on wildlife rescue by the experts from...

Gelephu, June 19, 2015: Four workshops on countering wildlife trafficking at the Indo-Bhutan border were conducted by IFAW-WTI in Bhutan last week by a joint team of experts from India and Bhutan. The workshops were conducted from June...

Wakro, November 4, 2015: IFAW-WTI rescued a family of gibbons from a discontinuous canopy cover in Wakro in Arunachal Pradesh and translocated them to a dense reserve forest contiguous to Kamlang Wildlife...

Borjuri, Kaziranga, November 10, 2015: A clinic for elephants of the northeast was inaugurated today at the upcoming Mark Shand Memorial Learning Centre by Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Founding Patron of the UK based charity Elephant Family and its...

Two IFAW-WTI rehabilitated elephants were captured on camera accompanying a herd of wild elephants for more than 60 days. This could likely be the first-ever successful reintegration of rehabilitated calves into the wild herds in...

New Ram Terang, Karbi Anglong, 11 November 2015:   A line up of drummers and dancers in their festive best broke into their routine at the first sight of the dignitaries that converged from various parts of the world to this picturesque unknown corner in...

Manas, June 19, 2015: IFAW-WTI’s effort to repopulate Manas National Park in Assam with rhinos is paying rich dividends with one of the hand reared rhinos, Ganga, giving birth to a healthy calf. This is Ganga’s second calf in four...

London, June 30, 2015: In the light of increasing fragmentation of forests and rising Human–Elephant conflict in India, five NGOs united under a MoU to raise £20 million for securing 100 elephant corridors in India by...

Blog by Dr Shantanu Kalambi. I always imagined a wildlife veterinarian’s job required a high level of fitness with loads of running towards animals and running away from them,jumping on crocodiles (Steve Irwin be praised). Sadly, it...

Bokakhat, October 16, 2015: As part of IFAW-WTI Supplemental Accident Insurance Scheme, ex-gratia support of Rs 50,000 was provided to the family members of late Naba Krishna Mahanta in Kaziranaga...

Agartala, June 25, 2015: Two leopards hand-raised at the IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) were shifted to Sipahijala Zoological Park in Tripura for lifetime care on June 25,...

Doyang, November 15, 2015: Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, paid a visit to Doyang in Nagaland and met up with WTI team that briefed him about the conservation of Amur...

The following is a first person account by Jose Louise on his experiment with technology to fight wildlife trade in...

Kaziranga, July 6, 2015: A neonate male rhino calf rescued by the Kaziranga Forest Department from flood waters was admitted to IFAW-WTI run CWRC for further...

Pench, July 6, 2015: A 10-day long training on wildlife crime prevention conducted by IFAW and WTI concluded today. This refresher training saw participation of around 277 frontline forest staff from the Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya...

Guwahati, June 26, 2015: WTI leads the way in creation of a first ever women volunteer team in Assam for leopard-human conflict...