NEWS & UPDATES

New Delhi : The Central Empowered Committee(CEC) appointed by the Supreme court today stayed the proposed bridge over Maniyari River in Achanakmar sanctuary in the central Indian Chhattisgarh state. The proposed bridge was to connect the villages of Chhaparwa...

New Delhi: The Central Empowered Committee appointed by the Supreme court today admitted a petition filed by the Wildlife Trust of India praying for the completion of the relocation of villages on the southern side of Corbett Tiger Reserve, which has been...

Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh : Flash floods have, for the first time, submerged huge tracts of forest land on the east bank of the Pakke river in the north eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh displacing people and wildlife. Earlier unconfirmed reports of 10 deaths...

Dehradun: Water level in springs and waterholes is rapidly falling due to the onset of a premature heat wave in the forests of the Rajaji National Park in the northern Indian Uttaranchal state. This is the time of the year that animals, especially elephants,...

Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh: A 13 ft long python drifting in the flood waters on the east bank of the Pakke river was rescued on Saturday. It was administered saline by the WTI veterinarian at CBRC to stabilize it and then released on the west bank near the...

Ajmer: The law has finally caught up with the kingpin of Indian wildlife traders, Sansar Chand, who was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment, by a court in Ajmer in the western state of...

Rupen (on the Gujarat coast ):In a first of its kind for a wildlife campaign in India, a life-sized model of a whale shark was inflated in this small fishing village drawing huge crowds that watched a street play on the protection of the world’s largest...

Kaziranga : Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a World Heritage Site and home to approximately 1500 of the estimated total population of 2000 Greater one-horned rhinos is once again in the grip of floods. Just two days into the first reports of the floods have...

New Delhi: Those of you who have read Mr. B.K. Sharma’s article in Sanctuary Asia, April 2004 would agree that he has extensively covered current and past problems relating to wildlife crime in India . He has traced well the overall scenario, the laws...

Barpeta Road: Flash floods carrying trees and huge amounts of silt washed away parts of the Manas National Park in India’s north eastern Assam state, killing a large number of deer, the director of the park, Mr Abhijit Rabha, said today. There are no...

Itanagar: The Nyshis, a fiercely traditional tribe in north east India , with their open mind and willingness to adapt have proved to be a reprieve for the magnificent but fast vanishing species of the...

Rushikulya (on the Orissa coast): Each year between the months of March and May, around a hundred thousand female Olive Ridley sea turtles converge to the Rushikulya rookery to lay eggs on the coast of the eastern state of Orissa in India. Only a few thousand...

Kaziranga: A two-year-old wild elephant calf found wandering near a village in Lakhimpur division of the north-eastern Assam state was rescued and sent to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) near Kaziranga. This increases the number...

Kaziranga : A four-month-old female rhino calf was rescued from the surging flood waters in the Kaziranga national Park yesterday. The calf, which was badly injured, was brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) and is now...

Borjhuri: A pair of sub-adult tigers, which had strayed out of the Kaziranga National Park(KNP) in the north-eastern Assam state, were rescued and released within 24 hours of their capture, in a joint operation by the forest department and the Wildlife Trust...

The rescue and the decision to release the sub-adult tigers in the Kaziranga National Park in the north-eastern Assam state, happened so fast that we at WTI were scrambling to get photographers and video crews in place and in time. Guwahati based film-maker,...

Tamuli Pathar Village , Kaziranga : A large adult tigress, suspected to be the mother of the two cubs rescued from this village on Sunday, severely mauled the mahout of an Assam forest department elephant, which had rangers trying to dart her on Wednesday...

Kaziranga : An annual feature of nature’s fury unleashes in the form of floods at Kaziranga National Park and displaces hundreds of animals from their...

All roads of Porbandar, the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, led to the Chowpatty beach this Sunday, as thousands of residents converged here to accord a ceremonial welcome to the world’s largest fish. Aniruddha Mookerjee recounts a never-before...

Kaziranga: A two month old female leopard cub was rescued from the Doom Dooma forest near Tinsukia, affected by the recent floods in the Brahmaputra river in India’s north-eastern Assam state. It was brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and...