NEWS & UPDATES

Theni, Friday, January 17, 2014: Wildlife Foundation (WF), a Meghamalai based conservation organisation, with the aid of Wildlife Trust of India, along with the support of the Tamil Nadu Forest Department and Aircel, has started anti-snare...

Thiruvananthapuram, December 6, 2013: In a boost to the welfare of the captive elephants in the state, a seven-day elephant training workshop is currently underway in the Koottoor Elephant Rehabilitation Centre in Agasthyavanam Biological Park,...

Over the last two months, school children in the Nagzira-Nawegaon corridor in the Central Indian tiger landscape have taken a step further to a greener livelihood by participating in a sapling plantation...

NOIDA, October 1, 2013: Students across the country will be a part of the special series of awareness activities on the occasion of the annual wildlife week beginning...

Ninety nine households located in human-elephant conflict prone areas of Wokha district received 4950 kg rice as ‘grain-for-grain’ relief through a Rapid Action Project (RAP) to assist elephant conservation efforts in the...

NOIDA, July 31, 2013: When people talk about wildlife they agree on the need to protect them, how they need to be kept safe from all those determined to profit from them. Not talked about often, however, are the people trying to do exactly that – the...

Veraval: In March this year, we received first cogent evidence of whale shark pups being found along the Gujarat coast.When the fisherman reported the incident to us, he was unaware of the flutter this serendipitous discovery would...

Agatti, June 30, 2013: Earlier this month, as the World Oceans Day was celebrated internationally, a small group of enthusiasts including the Forest Department, local NGOs, fishermen and even the Police in Agatti, Lakshadweep islands, organised a rally to...

Manas Mainao - the first rhino to walk Manas National Park kickstarting the crucial reintroduction in 2006, has given birth to a healthy calf. Early this morning, the mother and calf were sighted at the Rupahi Camp in Bhuyanpara range of Manas...

Dudhwa: The Rehmankhera tiger captured from the outskirts of Lucknow last April after having kept conservationists and locals on tenterhooks for several months, has now successfully spent a year in the wild in Dudhwa...

Wayanad: WTI's Ramith M regularly walks down the corridor trying to track elephant herds using it. He describes one of his most fascinating experiences with the astounding animals on a walk through the...

Fifteen kilometres inside a tiger reserve, where tigers, leopards, elephants freely roam, Jose Louies was part of a search party out on a mission to recover tiger traps hidden by a four-member gang of tiger poachers. This is the second part of the...

Kokrajhar (Bodoland), February 7, 2013: Nearly ten years have passed since a group of local youth established Manas Maozigendri Ecotourism Society (MMES) to help secure the Greater Manas landscape. Even today, they continue to put up a strong fight...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), January 2, 2013: Helping conserve the world’s tallest flying birds, farmers around Bhoj wetlands in Madhya Pradesh – a Ramsar site and an Important Bird Area (IBA), are shifting to organic farming to save sarus cranes from...

Kaziranga (Assam), December 3, 2012: The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) completes its 10th anniversary this year, having attended to more than 3000 (of about 150 species) distressed wild...

New Delhi, November 24, 2012: Bear experts from 35 countries will present their latest research findings in the Indian capital, beginning Monday, with the launch of the 21st International Conference on Bear Research and Management (IBA...

Guwahati (Assam), November 23, 2012: Despite the devastation created by two big floods in the Kaziranga National Park this year, the population trend of Eastern Swamp deer is still stable, experts...

Kaziranga NP, November 23, 2012: With an aim to study the movement pattern of Eastern swamp deer, Assam Forest Department in collaboration with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation radio collared a female...

Srinagar, November 22, 2012: International and national experts met today in Srinagar to brain storm and produce a protocol for dealing with human-bear...

Nagpur, November 13, 2012: In a boost to the conservation of the wild buffalo, officials from the forest departments of four states met with experts from the IUCN’s Asia Wild Cattle Specialist Group, Satpuda Foundation, NDRI, CCMB, Edinburgh Zoo...