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Ahmedabad: Visitors to the Centre of Environment Education (CEE) in Ahmedabad were amazed at the sight of a 40 ft fish on the lawns. As each of the 1500 visitors touched and felt this man-made wonder, it was obvious that Vhali the whale shark was clearly the...

Kaziranga: A third round of floods has totally cut off road traffic to Kaziranga National Park (KNP) from Guwahati in India ’s north eastern Assam state. The road was under 10 feet of water at Naogaon yesterday and an alternate route to KNP through Tezpur...

Kaziranga: Yet another rhino calf was rescued from the floods and brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC), where its wounds were treated by the Centre veterinarian. This brings the count of rhino calves at the Centre to...

Kaziranga, Assam : Delayed reports from the field and video replays of the attack by the tigress on the mahout Satya Pegu, tell a different story, where human lives were saved purely due to “quick thinking” by the female working elephant,...

New Delhi : Over thirty years after the introduction of the Wildlife Protection Act, which banned the catching of snakes in India , a small community of snake charmers continues to practice its trade catching over 400,000 snakes every year, which ultimately...

Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh : An inflatable boat that was rapidly arranged by the Wild Rescue programme of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has finally reached its destination after a week’s delay enroute. The arrival of the boat has finally facilitated attempts...

Guwahati: Three elephants were killed by a speeding train and two were injured yesterday on a railway track running through Rani-Garbhanga Reserve Forest and Deepar Beel Wildlife Sanctuary near Azara Railway station near Guwahati , Assam . The three elephants...

New Delhi: Ashok Kumar, Senior Advisor and Trustee, Wildlife Trust of India has been at the forefront of the fight against poachers and illegal trade of wildlife and wildlife derivatives in India for over two decades. Here he recounts an interesting case of a...

  London : A shocking new exhibit in London ’s Docklands was unveiled today to act as a memorial to the millions of elephants gunned down to feed the ivory trade. The exhibit, a huge bloody tusk has been built out of more than 700 pieces of ivory given...

Dachigam National Park : Unknown to the media, an initiative taken by Wildlife Trust of India at the grass-roots level in Dachigam National Park has infused fresh hope for protection of the habitat of the hangul in the north Indian state of Jammu and...

New Delhi: For the little girl who grew up in war-ravaged England in the 1940s, the stories of Tarzan and Dr Dolittle, who lived in the jungles of Africa with their wild companions, were to change her life forever. Determined to share a forest home with...

KAZIRANGA: A four-month-old female elephant calf has been rescued by forest guards from the forests of the Karbi Anglong district in Assam and is now being treated at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation(CWRC)...

KAZIRANGA: A female calf was rescued yesterday near from a thickly forested area between Bhalukpong and Tippi in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal...

Dubai : The Dubai government seized 90 shahtoosh shawls and 10 shahtoosh scarves from Kashmiri owned shops on 31 st July. The seizure was effected using a kit designed and developed by the Metropolitan Police, UK and the International Fund for Animal Welfare...

KAZIRANGA: Domestic elephants in the Northeast are much better cared for and in a better condition than elsewhere in the country. This was the prime observation of wildlife scientists who attended the just-concluded elephant festival...

New Delhi: A raid conducted in Jahangirpuri, Delhi by Shri K.N.Singh, Assistant Director, Wildlife Preservation, Govt. of India, with inspectors of the Wildlife department resulted in a seizure of mongoose hair and brushes along with some equipment used for...

NEW DELHI: A major seizure of wildlife articles were made from Biharigarh in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh last...

KAZIRANGA: A Bay Owl was rescued from the Bokakhat Wildlife Division and brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) here on Wednesday. It was released later the same...

KAZIRANGA: A malnourished sub-adult leopard is biding its time at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) here. It is a six-month old male leopard cub (Panthera pardus) which was recently brought to the CWRC campus form the Sivasagar...

NEW DELHI: Bizarre as it would seem, a forty-year-old domestic elephant’s head was chopped off and its trunk hacked away for its tusks at Kaladi in Kerala’s Ernakulam district on Sunday, reports reaching here today...