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Kaziranga NP, February 7, 2016: A sub-adult female leopard was rescued and released back to the wild by the IFAW-WTI team with no human...

WTI supported Adhith Swaminathan of the Dakshin Foundation through a Rapid Action Project aimed at conducting comprehensive surveys to assess the status and distribution of leatherback turtle nesting sites in the Nicobar...

Mandla, January 20, 2016: Madhya Pradesh Forest Department and WTI conducted Wildlife Crime Prevention Training in Kanha TR for 76 frontline forest staff from January 11 to...

Kaziranga, February 15, 2016: Two Himalayan griffon vultures suspected of being poisoned were rescued by the forest staff of Sibsagar Forest Range from Demow in Assam. These scavengers were admitted to IFAW-WTI run CWRC for care on February 11,...

A four- to six-month-old male Asian elephant calf that had been separated from its mother and natal herd was reunited with them by the North Bank unit of IFAW-WTI’s Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) on June...

Manas, 16 February, 2016: Two rhinos undergoing acclimatisation at an enclosure set up by IFAW-WTI and the Assam Forest Department were today released in Manas National Park in...

Ram Terang, July 07, 2016: To mark the 67th Vanamahotsava – the annual week-long tree plantation festival observed across India – the Silonijan Forest Range Office, Karbi Anglong, and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) organised a tree plantation programme in...

Manas NP, February 17, 2016: A juvenile male clouded leopard under care at IFAW-WTI’s Wildlife Transit Home in Charaikhola, Kokrajhar, was shifted to the acclimatisation site at Doimari in Manas National Park as part of the...

A poacher was arrested with four leopard skins at Chandi Mandir, Haryana, on June 28 following a joint operation led by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and Central Bureau of Investigation, and supported by the Wildlife Trust of India...

CWRC, Assam, July 10, 2016: In a major update to the story published here on June 24 regarding the rescue of a Burmese python and its clutch of eggs, hatchlings have now been observed emerging from the eggs at CWRC's Small Animal...

Golaghat, Assam, 24 February 2016: It was a happy ending for an elephant calf that was unable to cross a tea garden ditch in Assam, where the IFAW-WTI team managed to control a crowd and enable the mother elephant to ‘rescue’ her calf. The basic...

Kaziranga, 20 February 2016: A four member stakeholder group from Pakke Tiger Reserve (PTR) visited the IFAW-WTI run Centre of Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) on 20th February as a part of exposure visit organised by the Centre for Bear...

Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh, 25 February 2016: A three month old Asiatic black bear cub, rescued by village youth, was handed over to the IFAW- WTI run Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation (CBRC) by the Arunachal Pradesh Forest Department early this...

CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, 22 March 2016: A week old male rhino calf rescued by the staff of Bagori forest range of Kaziranga National Park was admitted on Saturday the 19th March to the IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation...

New Ram Terang Village, March 27, 2016: Today on the Easter Sunday, the first ray of sun over the New Ram Terang Village ushered in a new horizon of hope and bright future for the recent settlers from Kalapahar-Daigurung elephant corridor. Kins of 19 families...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit IFAW-WTI’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation, interact with orphaned elephants and rhinos, and paint an elephant with schoolchildren at the Kaziranga Discovery...

Done Valley, Bihar, July 12, 2016: For the women of nine villages in Done Valley, Valmiki Tiger Reserve, it was a completely different perspective on the living things they see around them every day. The women – about 150 of them, from the villages of...

On April 1, 2016, the students of two schools of village Pangti in the Sungro administrative circle of Wokha district, Nagaland received a special gift: new school bags.   WTI’s Dilip Deori distributing bags to schoolchildren at Pangti village...

In January this year, while I was working as a rehabilitator for IFAW-WTI's Emergency Relief Network at the International Kite Festival in Porbandar, Gujarat, I received news of an opportunity to work with a pair of captive Hog Deer (Axis...

April 30, 2016: Kenya sent a clear and potent message to criminals participating in the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade by torching 105 tonnes of ivory and 1.35 tonnes of rhino horn at Nairobi National Park this afternoon.   A Kenya Wildlife Service...