NEWS & UPDATES

New Delhi: On March 30, the Wildlife Trust of India launched a scheme of supplementary accident introduced of Protected Area staff, as part of its Van Rakshak Project. This landmark scheme brings all the field staff of the forest departments, working on...

Nepal: The Chitwan District Forest Office (DFO) on March 9 arrested Royal Nepal Army (RNA) Colonel Dilip Shumsher Rana on a charge of having shot a barking deer in the Royal Chitwan National Park. But when Park security guards approached him, he resisted and...

New Delhi: Corbett National Park has reopened, tourists are going in again, and a calm of sorts prevails. Underneath the calm, tension among Park managers is palpable, because expert tribals believed to be from North Eastern India and adept at this method of...

New Delhi: A mobile wild animal clinic cum ambulance, purchased with a grant from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, is being used for WTI’s WILD RESCUE programme in Assam. While the rescue centre is being built, the...

New Delhi: To boost the morale of forest guards chasing a set of determined poachers who have already killed five tuskers in the core area of the Corbett tiger reserve, the Wildlife Trust of India has dispatched 130 sets of warm jackets, sleeping bags, and...

Pobitara: On February 6, 2001 a sub-adult female Barking Deer, that had been confiscated from the Nagaon area and handed over to the Pobitara Wildlife Sanctuary Range Officer Mr Mrigen Barua, was badly bitten and injured by street dogs at the Range Office...

Guwahati: A sub-adult male Slow Loris was bought from the local market of Haflong in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, from a trader and brought to Dr Bhaskar Chaudhary, WTI’s Guwahati-based veterinarian, on January 15, 2001. It was in perfect health...

If you met Paramvir Khati on the streets of Kurseong, you would probably take him to be the local romeo. Tall and well built, fashionably dressed and very fond of playing the guitar, he was quite the local heartthrob. If you met him inside the forests of the...

New Delhi: On April 26, the Delhi Police seized 26.4 kg of ivory products and jewellery worth Rs 2.6 million from two men, indicating the high demand for ivory despite the fact that the trade in Asian ivory was banned in 1986 and that in African ivory in...

New Delhi: On May 2 a training module got underway at the six Forest Ranges that comprise the 1,318.54 sq km Corbett Tiger Reserve. It covers Foresters, Range Officers, other senior forest officers, and even casual workers of the Reserve. The six Forest...

New Delhi: On Sunday, May 13, 2001 one of the largest seizures of birds took place at Delhi International Airport, when 1,200 red munias (also known as Avadavats) and 33 Alexandrine parakeets were seized from Mahendra Pratap, who was smuggling them to Sharjah...

Mumbai: A tiger skin was seized in May from the house of stud farm owner Cooji Katrak in Malabar Hill, Mumbai, along with a number of other wildlife articles, including ivory carvings, python skins (the python is a Schedule I species under the Wildlife...

New Delhi: Kaziranga National Park, on the banks of the river Brahmaputra in Assam, is prone to floods during the monsoon. The floods follow a cycle and increase in severity every two years. During this period thousands of animals, including rhinos and...

(TO BE PUBLISHED IN PART II SECTION – 3 SUBSECTION (ii), EXTRAORDINARY OF THE GAZETTE OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS NOTIFICATION NEW DELHI, 11th July, 2001 S.O……(E). In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of...

Mumbai: The second Lakme India Fashion week was held in Mumbai between 6th and 12th of August. This time arround the WTI – IFAW "Say No To Shahtoosh Campaign was centerstage from day one. Ritu Kumar opened the fashion week with models Pooja Batra,...

Mumbai: Leading designer, Ritu Kumar, kickstarted Lakme India Fashion Week 2001 on August 6th with the "Say No To Shahtoosh" campaign. Opening her ramp show with her "Alternatives to Toosh" line, Ritu Kumar showcased her creations on...

Jaipur: In a landmark health camp and training programme organised at Jaipur by WTI, Tourism Department, Rajasthan Government and Help in Suffering (HIS) nearly 100 elepjhants received free treatment and 30 local vets trained between 21 to 24 August. The Wild...

Corbett: There was a request from the Corbett Tiger Reserve for 15 life jackets and the repair of four patrolling boats. These life jackets and boat repairs are required as guards need to patrol the reserve even during monsoon in boats. As during the monsoon...

New Delhi: The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), as a part of its Van Rakshak Project, provided a great morale booster to all field staff in protected areas, by providing them with an insurance cover. The scheme was launched on March 30, 2001, and covers all...

New Delhi: The Rapid Action Project cell received a request from the Field Director of Satkosia WLS in Orissa for providing rain suits to anti-poaching field staff. It has been noticed in the past that during the monsoon the forests are most vulnerable due to...