NEWS & UPDATES

Anappara, Kerala : In a significant move the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) persuaded 30 people to voluntarily relocate from the Tirunelli-Kudrakote elephant corridor in the conflict-ridden southern Indian Kerala state. The keys to their new houses at the...

Washington, D.C. : The fate of the world’s elephants was the focus of a key US congressional hearing today, highlighting the international efforts to protect elephants from a growing illegal trade in their ivory and calls to allow for its legal trade. IFAW...

Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir : WTI veterinarian Dr. Bhaskar Choudhury was awarded recently for his outstanding contribution in the field of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation by the Association of Indian Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians at a two-day...

New Delhi: The Bush administration told Congress yesterday that it would actively work to keep China’s 14-year-old domestic ban on tiger trade in place at next month’s meeting of 171 nations at the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered...

Tinsukia, Assam : The lessons learnt in the human-leopard conflict work shop early this year brought results when the WTI team successfully reunited two leopard cubs with their mother in Upper Assam. When the call came from Mr. Aniruddha Dey, the divisional...

Faridabad, Haryana: The special environment court in Faridabad in the northern Indian Haryana state Monday framed charges against former Indian cricket captain, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, and seven others, in a case related to the poaching of a Black buck, an...

New Delhi: Fishermen have saved yet another whale shark in the Western Indian state of Gujarat, making it the 9th recorded case in one-and-a-half years. Conservationists are happy at the positive development, since fishermen who used to mercilessly kill them...

New Delhi: A book on “Commentaries on Wildlife Law – cases, statutes and notifications” by WTI (Wildlife Trust of India) was released today by the Hon’ble former Justice of Supreme Court, Justice Leela Seth at a function organized at the India...

Patna: A team of WTI and forest officials, who went to rescue a leopard in Balwapar village in Nalanda district in the Eastern Indian state of Bihar, were seriously injured when the animal attacked them in order to free itself. The incident occurred late...

New Delhi: Monkeys lurking along the Haridwar-Dehradun highway in the Northern Indian state of Uttaranchal are being fatally injured every alternate day by speeding vehicles, and the situation could become worse if urgent action is not taken, said...

The Hague, Netherlands : An investigative report conducted by IFAW into Japan’s domestic ivory trade controls has uncovered numerous loopholes that allow illegal ivory from elephants poached in the wild to be laundered into the legal domestic ivory...

The Hague, Netherlands: The International online commerce site eBay today said it will announce a ban on the trade of elephant ivory on all of its sites, prompting conservationists to call it a groundbreaking step against the global illegal ivory...

Tiger lovers around the world eagerly await Tuesday for the crucial vote here at the CITES meeting on the Chinese proposal to allow the resumption of trade in tiger derivatives and body...

New Delhi: Gujarat becomes the 22nd state to be a part of the national insurance scheme initiated by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) that insures frontline forest staff against injury and death in protected areas  of the...

The Hague : In a historic ruling, the 171 member countries of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), today overwhelmingly voted against domestic and international trade in tiger derivatives and parts,...

Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh) : A leopard skin measuring 5-feet-long, an air pistol, a sword and the car in which they were traveling were seized by police, when they were on their way to sell the skin to a decoy...

Bhubaneswar (Orissa): In a rare reunion, a baby elephant was reunited with its mother after more than a month in captivity near the Chandaka Wildlife Sanctuary in the eastern Indian Orissa...

Manas (Assam): The six hand raised elephant calves being readied for release in a National Park in the eastern Indian Assam state are enjoying the monsoons, frolicking in the swelling streams and eating the new shoots of grass that have sprung out of the wet...

Ajmer: For the first time Sansar Chand, the infamous wildlife trader has begun serving a sentence of five years rigorous imprisonment as a convict in Ajmer Central Jail on the pending sentence, which was ordered way back in April 2004 by Ravi Sharma, Addl....

Ranikhet: In the wake of mysterious deaths of eagles in Ranikhet, a preliminary report from the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) has revealed that it may be a case of poisoning which led to the mass mortality of Steppe eagles (Aquila nipalensis)....