NEWS & UPDATES

Assam: Even as intrusions by wild elephants into human settlements are on the rise in several parts of Assam, yet another wild elephant has left one dead and several injured in Lungsung...

Assam: Wildlife conservationists working close to Laokhowa and Burachapori Wildlife Sanctuaries in the Nagaon district of Assam are baffled at the number of scheduled species being killed at close intervals near the...

New Delhi: Two important seizures of shahtoosh shawls at close intervals in July have once again underlined the ongoing illegal trade on...

Dharamsala: There is a renaissance of short for hundreds of colorfully attired Tibetans who congregated at the Main Square of Mcleodganj in this Buddhists pilgrimage town of Dharamsala today. The reason was to rekindle an era for conservation of endangered...

New Delhi: For the eighth consecutive year, the Venu Menon National Animal Awards ceremony was hosted at the Lakshmipat Singhania Auditorium in PHD House in New Delhi on February 19. Nine individuals received the awards from the Chief Guest, Dr. Najma...

Mussoorie: To educate Tibetan school children about our rich wildlife heritage and its significance to earth, the Winterline Nature Trust and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) organized a wildlife safari for a group of children from the Tibetan Home...

Ladakh: Jammu and Kashmir is on high alert following cases of the avian flu in Maharastra and Gujarat. The Wildlife Department of J & K sent a request to the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) to train its officials on the preventive measures to be adopted, in...

Bhopal: A tough task of finding alternative livelihoods got underway for the Kalandars at the Kotra Sultanabad settlement in Bhopal. The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has invited the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Madhya Pradesh (CEDMAP) to train a...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court constituted Central Empowered Committee (CEC) after a site inspection in the Okhla Bird Sanctuary today has ordered the concerned departments to remove all illegal constructions. The petition was filed by Faiyaz. A. Khudsar of the...

Sutrapada: Parbatlala Fulbaria was surprised to find a whale shark entangled in his fishing net in one of his daily trip to the sea. The fishing boat named ‘Parasmani’ in which he was traveling looked diminutive in contrast to the giant whale shark,...

New Delhi: Ashok Nath, a notorious wildlife trader was sentenced to three years and six months of rigorous imprisonment today within a record time. Sanjeev Jain, the Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, sentenced Nath for illegal trading of three leopard...

Visakhapatnam: The fifth annual workshop on wildlife rehabilitation concluded today at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. It was organized from March 27 to 29 by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) in partnership with the International Fund for Animal Welfare...

Dharamsala: About thirty thousand Tibetans who had gathered for the ‘spring teaching’ of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala were also made aware of the need to conserve...

Panipat: A seriously ailing elephant was seized by the Haryana Forest Department near Panipat yesterday after the mahout was found begging on the street of Dhand in the Kaithal district of Haryana with the...

New Delhi: Yeshi Dorje, a resident in the neighborhood of Lhasa’s central market, who had witnessed the March 10 burning of endangered animal skins in the Amdo province, said that the regular shops which sold tiger and leopard skins in Lhasa no longer...

New Delhi: Eighty-nine endangered turtles rescued by the Wildlife Department late last evening from the illegal possession of an accused in Najafgarh. Following a raid, a woman named Omwati belonging to the Sansi Tribe was detained under Section 49 B of the...

East Kameng: A thoughtful move by a young engineer helped save two Asiatic black bear cubs from an illegal bear merchant in Arunachal Pradesh. Bimal Wally, who works at the Public Health Department in Seppa handed them to the Forest Department which he had...

Gujarat: Investigation into the illegal trade of rare birds in the Anand district of Gujarat has led to the arrest of a dealer on April 09 and is likely to throw light on this alleged network of bird...

New Delhi: In the shahtoosh case Ashok Kumar vs. State of J & K and others, the Supreme Court on April 13 held that unless the declarations made by people in J & K on the possession of shahtoosh shawls were certified within nine weeks of this order,...

Kaziranga: Families of the deceased forest guards Golap Bori and Rajen Hazarika received rupees one lakh each as insurance money on April 26 under the Van Rakshak Project of the Wildlife Trust of India...