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Click here to view the PRESENTATION(PowerPoint) & VIDEO(44mb Real Media 10)       New Delhi: India joins seven other countries, notable among these, USA, UK, China and Russia, to collectively launch a Campaign Against Tiger Trafficking on...

Manas: “Know Manas, love Manas, save Manas” was the central theme that greeted the hundred years of Manas Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam. The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam Shri. Tarun Gogoi lighted the inaugural lamp to mark the opening of the...

Gandhinagar: Vhali the whale shark stood proudly at the entrance to the eco-tourism pavilion at Vibrant Gujarat, a concept that aims to attract prospective investors to the state. Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) had participated in the celebrations welcoming...

Jammu: The detection of bird flu in neighbouring China has put India’s northern most state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) under threat with the possibility of this virus being transmitted through migratory birds. This prompted Wildlife Trust of India (WTI)...

Kaziranga: Amid Durga puja celebrations across the northeastern state of Assam, the staff at the Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in Kaziranga labored to provide motherly comfort to yet another rescued elephant calf in the centre....

Sutrapada: History repeated itself when yet another whale shark that was trapped in fishing nets off the coast of Gujarat was rescued in a joint operation conducted by the Gujarat Forest Department and the Department of Fisheries with the expert assistance of...

Mumbai: Tata Chemicals has won the Green Governance Award 2005 for its project  – Conservation of the Whale Shark. The award will be given by Dr. Manmohan Singh, Hon. Prime Minister of India on November 10, 2005 at a ceremony in Vigyan Bhavan, New...

New Delhi: The book “Right of Passage,” a compilation of identified ‘corridors’ in ten elephant bearing states in the country was released today by the Hon’ble Union Minister for Environment & Forests (MoEF) Thiru A Raja at India International...

Jalandhar: Fear of the deadly H5N1 virus that plagued most of Europe, Africa, and Asia in the last fortnight catalyzed a workshop organized by the Punjab Forest Department. The workshop trained NGOs and forest officials to mitigate the crisis in the event of...

New Delhi: In order to encourage wildlife rescue and rehabilitation efforts in a humane and scientific way, the Wild Rescue Program of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) is organizing its fourth annual training workshop on Wildlife Rehabilitation in Delhi,...

Manas: This December, Manas Wildlife Sanctuary in lower Assam will celebrate its centenary year with a host of activities both for the foreign as well as domestic tourists to experience wildlife in its habitats of a World Heritage Site. The celebrations are...

New Delhi: WTI Trustee Dr.R.Sukumar won the Inagural T.N.Khoshoo Memorial Award, 2004 in a glittering ceremony held at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. The award was instituted by the T.N.Memorial Endowment...

Kangra: A joint operation led by the Station House Officer (SHO) Shahpur of Himachal Pradesh Police and the Enforcement Division of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) have resulted in the recovery of two bear biles, three leopard skins and a jungle cat skin from...

Ahmedabad: A popular religious leader, wildlife conservation NGOs, the forest department and two major business corporations have come together in a unique partnership to protect an endangered species off the coast of Gujarat, the Whale...

Seijosa: The WTI-IFAW Wild Rescue team has rescued a two-month old red panda cub from a government veterinarian in Tawang in the north-eastern Arunachal Pradesh state. The cub has been housed in Pakke and is being looked after by...

New Delhi: The Tibetan antelope, friendly Yingying is all set to shake hands with the world as one among five symbols chosen as the mascots of the Beijing Olympics. Conservationists at the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) reveled at this announcement that was...

Gujarat: The campaign against the killing of Whale Shark launched in February by the Wildlife Trust of India and the International Fund for Animal Welfare has started making waves in coastal towns of the western Indian state of Gujarat . The first ripples...

Bokakhat, Assam: The morning dew had rendered the ground at Borsapori tea estate with slippery earth and treacherous trenches. On that fateful day, an elephant calf was found trapped in one of the trenches of the tea...

Dehradun: Forest and police officials raided a clandestine mongoose hair brush making factory at Vikas Nagar near Dehradun, in the northern Indian Uttaranchal state. The owner of the factory was arrested and 425 finished mongoose hair brushes were seized....

Tezpur: This is an amazing account of a displaced tiger, which attacked three persons, went to jail, and was released without...