NEWS & UPDATES

The words stare out at you “Paddy Thief”, scrawled in Assamese on the back of a dead female elephant, found recently in a paddy field on the outskirts of Tezpur town in Assam. The words obviously referring to the elephant herds that have...

Rajaji: They may be the biggest mammals to walk the Indian jungles but when it comes to railways crossings, these mammoth creatures hardly match up to speeding trains. About 23 km of the railway tracks between the north Indian cities of Haridwar and Dehradun...

New Delhi: Since July 2001, WTI’s enforcement assistance unit has been associated with at least 30 seizures: seven in July, three each in August and September, two in October, five in November, and six in December. Most seizures have taken place in U.P,...

New Delhi: Poachers electrocuted one rhino in Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary on January 9, near its northeastern border near Kuranibari village. Two of the poachers were also electrocuted in the process, while the other two escaped. Police have recovered the...

Guwahati: Wildlife Trust of India, as part of Wild Rescue programme is establishing India’s first wildlife rehabilitation centre in northeast India, in the state of Assam. The centre will be involved in the rescue of wild animals, which have been...

Sonari (Assam): A female elephant calf of about six months was rescued from Sonari in Sibsagar Forest Division in Assam on Friday last week. An attempt to locate its natal herd failed and the calf was moved to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and...

Kaziranga (Assam): A female tiger cub of about four months was found dead in the Hatikuli Tea Estate adjoining the southern boundary of Kaziranga National Park in Assam this morning. Another cub, a male of same age, was found seriously ill yesterday noon in...

Kaziranga (Assam): One more rhino of Kaziranga National Park, Assam fell prey to poachers’ bullets on December 16, bringing the total number killed this year to a record...

Mayurbhanj (Odisha): 10 Ho tribesmen living in and around Simlipal Tiger Reserve have put down their traditional hunting weapons vowing to not hunt wild animals again, after a series of awareness drives conducted by the FD and WTI, supported by...

Motichur (Uttarakhand): An Indian rock python that had strayed into a culvert in Motichur, Naibasti area was rescued by the Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS- Uttarakhand) of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) with the help of the Forest Department staff on...

Phura (Mizoram):A rare Asian brown tortoise (Manouria emys) was rescued from a resident of Phura Village in the southern district of Saiha in Mizoram, and released into the wild by the members of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) – Emergency Relief...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to both the Union government and the Bihar government asking them to explain why the staff of Valmiki Tiger Reserve have not be paid their salaries on time, leading to the staff walking out of the park in October and...

Qinhai Forest Police arrested Mahakemu, a top criminal involved in one of the largest Tibetan Antelope poaching cases, after 15 days of chasing. With his arrest, all the five criminals involved in the poaching case of December 13, 2001 have been caught and...

Jodhpur, (Rajasthan) : In a major raid on stationery and hardware stores, the Rajasthan police yesterday seized 1254 illegal Mongoose hair brushes and detained five...

Cape Town, South Africa: Gunfire battle with poachers, ivory confiscations, and smuggler prosecution. All is a week’s work in a world of booming elephant ivory trade. On October 11, 93.9 kg (207 lbs) of elephant ivory was confiscated in Zambia. Again,...

Dudhwa (Uttar Pradesh) : The Forest Department officials of Dudhwa National Park arrested four persons in the South Kheri Range of the park on charges of possessing tiger parts. A tiger skin and tiger bones were seized on October...

Kaziranga: Floods in Kaziranga National Park are an annual occurrence, which claim the lives of many animals every single year. The IFAW-WTI-run CWRC, in the vicinity, has been assisting the FD in rescuing and rehabilitating animals for many...

Kaziranga (Assam) : A pregnant female rhino was poached in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, on Tuesday, October 23, bringing the total number of rhinos killed this year to 18. A .303 rifle was used, as against locally made hand guns in earlier incidents. The...

Behror, (Rajasthan) : Two years after reports of the disappearance of tigers from the Sariska Tiger Reserve, bringing into sharp focus the plight of India’s national animal and the serious poaching pressures it was under, the Rajasthan Forest Department...

Orang, Assam : In yet another incident of retaliatory killing, two tigers, a sub-adult male and another, whose gender could not be identified, were poisoned in the Orang National Park by angry villagers. The tigers had reportedly been preying on their cattle...