NEWS & UPDATES

Chandigarh: A gun will fire at the Chhatbir zoo tomorrow. Only, this gun will demonstrate the process of tranquilizing a wild animal to a group of Forest and Wildlife officials from...

New Delhi: China has refused to give Tibetan Antelopes to India for captive breeding to supply shahtoosh weavers in Jammu and Kashmir with shahtoosh wool. This was made public at a meeting of CITES Tiger Enforcement Task Force by the Chinese delegation, which...

New Delhi : A demolition blitz carried out today by the District Administration of Gautam Buddh Nagar has proved a point to encroachers in the protected area of Okhla Bird Sanctuary. The existence of illegal structures were a cause of serious disturbance to...

  New Delhi  : The court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) at Tis Hazari issued non-bailable warrants against the notorious wildlife trader Sansar Chand in four cases pending against him on Saturday 21st May 2005 . The cases related...

New Delhi : “Tiger” Pataudi and seven others were booked on charges of poaching wild animals including a blackbuck in the northern Indian state of Haryana today. The Jhajjar police recovered the carcass besides two guns and 50 cartridges from the vehicle...

New Delhi:  The high profile case of Pataudi being embroiled in poaching a black buck continues to be in the limelight with varying versions of the story floating around. While waiting for the law to take its own course, the Wild Enforcement and...

New Delhi :  Justice Rajive Bhalla of Punjab & Haryana High Court in Chandigarh today heard the anticipatory bail petition of Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and Shashi Singh, accused in the Jhajjar black buck hunting case, but did not grant them anticipatory...

New Delhi: An impact assessment report on six independent investigations under the Wild Aid programme of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and supported by its partner the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) was released today by Mr Anil Baijal,...

 Brussels : Swiss customs officials have confiscated 537 shawls of shahtoosh wool, made from the endangered Tibetan antelope, estimated at a value of more than 2.5 million euros. The seizure represents the slaughter of at least 1,600 animals, or more than 3%...

New Delhi : Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) congratulates the Crime Branch of Delhi Police for the arrest of Sansar Chand . After being twice convicted and giving the slip for the last two decades, the notorious smuggler of wildlife, Sansar Chand was arrested...

New Delhi: The world finally got to see the face behind many a poaching operations in Indian jungles, when Sansar Chand was produced in the court of Manoj Jain, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Delhi at noon today. Sansar Chand has been remanded to...

New Delhi: A report on the Markhor “Goats on the Border” which is jointly published by the Wildlife Trust of India, J & K Wildlife Department, Environment and Ecology Cell of the Indian Army and Nature Conservation Society was released by the...

Kaziranga: A three year old leopard that was rescued on the night of 30 th June from the Kakojan area of Jorhat district by the local forest officials and staff of the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) was released back to the wild...

New Delhi: Notorious wildlife smuggler Sansar Chand finds himself ensnared with no hope of release after the CBI charged him under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act of 1999...

New Delhi: During his recent visit to Geneva in July  2005 to attend the CITES Standing Committee meeting, Senior Advisor and Trustee of Wildlife Trust of India Mr. Ashok Kumar was shown four of the shahtoosh shawls from a previous seizure by Swiss...

New Delhi : After tightening the snare on Sansar Chand, a complex legal situation arose yesterday after the Rajasthan Police applied for his custody and transit to Jaipur. The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) expressed his inability to grant...

Surat: The Wildlife Rehabilitators Exchange Network (WREN) which was launched by the Wild Rescue Programme of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) early this year to take up rescue and rehabilitation measures for wildlife in crisis across the country have come...

Kaziranga: After elephants, rhinos and leopards, the Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in the north eastern state of Assam now houses ten snakes that have a new...

New Delhi : The much awaited verdict on the fate of the eight Asian elephants stationed in the southern province of Thailand has finally arrived with the Australian Environment Minister Ian Campbell giving the green signal to Sydney and Melbourne Zoos to...

Jaipur : For the first time, two panther skins were recovered directly from the wildlife smuggler Sansar Chand, who had so blatantly challenged the police when he was arrested after a carefully planned sting operation on 30 th...