NEWS & UPDATES

Jammu: The State Board for Wildlife of Jammu & Kashmir met in Jammu yesterday to discuss issues and devise ways to tackle challenges to wildlife in the state. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah launched four Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) publications at the end...

New Delhi: The Court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Special Act) Dig Vinay Singh today, under strict conditions, granted bail to the Kashmir Government Arts Emporium Manager, who was arrested last week in the Indian capital for trade in...

Manas (Assam): Three female greater one-horned rhinoceros were released in the wild from their temporary enclosure(boma) in Manas National Park in western Assam late last...

Valmikinagar (Bihar): The Bihar forest department assisted by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) seized two leopard skins and apprehended four wildlife traders in Valmikinagar near Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar, along the Indo-Nepal border, last...

– by Prasanta Boro Tezpur (Assam): Wednesday began as a normal day for us at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) run by International Fund for Animal Welfare- Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI). We went about our daily tasks...

Dachigam National Park (Jammu & Kashmir): The Department of Wildlife, Jammu & Kashmir and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), supported by the Care for the Wild International (CWI) organised a two-day intensive training for frontline staff of Dachigam...

Kolkata: The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has confirmed that the skin seized from the premises of a Sreeleather showroom in Kolkata in May this year belongs to a blackbuck – a Schedule I...

Dharchula (Uttarakhand): For effective wildlife trade control across the porous Indo-Nepal border, authorities from India and Nepal met today for a two-day workshop, in the bordering town of Dharchula in the northern Indian state of...

Pakke (Arunachal Pradesh): Three orphaned Asiatic black bear cubs are being walked in Pakke Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, for acclimatisation, and eventual rehabilitation in the...

Kaziranga (Assam): A wild elephant calf, stuck in a mud pit at a tea garden near Kaziranga National Park in Assam, was rescued and reunited with its mother, by the Assam Forest Department in an effort assisted by IFAW-WTI (International Fund for Animal...

New Delhi: British Conservative MP and Shadow Environment Secretary, Nick Herbert, has stressed on the need for a change in the approach to save the earth’s ecosystems ‘worth trillions of...

  Manas National Park (Assam): Three orphaned Asiatic black bears, hand-raised by the IFAW-WTI (International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India), have been returned to the wild in Manas National Park, Assam, following a sustained period...

Yarmouth Port (USA): Leonardo DiCaprio and  IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org) today announced the start of Animal Action Week, one of the world’s largest environmental education programmes spread across a number of...

Manas (Assam): An Asian small clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea) caught in a fishing net was successfully rescued and released back into the wild in Manas Tiger Reserve by the Assam Forest Department and International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of...

Jodhpur (Rajasthan): A blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) was shot dead by poachers in the outskirts of Rawar village in Jodhpur district, Rajasthan, yesterday. A case has been filed against two accused persons – residents of a nearby Bala village –...

Kokrajhar (Assam): In a move to facilitate wildlife rehabilitation in Bodoland, the local government and the Forest Department have finalised setting up of a transit camp to temporarily house displaced wild animals. The camp will have facilities to attend to...

Kokrajhar (Assam): Two rare clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) cubs being hand-raised by Bodoland Territorial Council – International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India (BTC-IFAW-WTI) will soon be moved to Kachugaon Forest Division,...

Faridabad (Haryana): The Haryana environment court today resumed hearings in the criminal case against Mansur Ali Khan, also known as the Nawab of Pataudi and others for allegedly hunting a blackbuck in June 2005. This is contrary to the rumours being spread...

Delhi: Four years of perhaps the most successful animal campaign in India culminated last month with the celebration of a ‘day’ dedicated exclusively to the target species- the whale shark. An honour that has been conferred to no other species in...

Hazira (Gujarat): Vultures in the coastal region near Hazira in Surat, have found a firm friend in a project initiated several years ago by the Bird Conservation Society of Gujarat and the Nature Club of Surat run by a member of IFAW-WTI Emergency Relief...