NEWS & UPDATES

Madhya Pradesh, 6 August, 2015- Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) along with the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department is jointly conducting Wildlife Crime Prevention Training in 16 circles outside Protected Areas (PAs) in Madhya...

Wokha, November 13, 2015: WTI team along with DFO, Wokha, went to late Oponthung W. Jami’s (Forester Grade I) house to hand over the ex-gratia relief through EDDG to his family members for his daughter’s...

Mallipatinam, May 24, 2015: WTI through a RAP is conducting awareness programmes in the Palk Bay region of Tamil Nadu to conserve sea horses. The programme aims to raise awareness amongst fishing community, NGOs, among...

It is rare that a person finds a job that they've always dreamt of, but that's right where I find myself now. I just started up as a wildlife vet working with WTI's MVS unit in Bandipur NP. It has been a month since I joined and I love...

Kaziranga, July 16, 2015: Wildlife Trust of India and Elephant Family with support from the Assam Forest Department distributed kits to the newly trained group of Green Corridor Monitors of the Kaziranga -Karbi Anglong...

Pench Tiger Reserve, June 25, 2015: As part of IFAW-WTI's Supplemental Accident Insurance Scheme, ex-gratia support of Rs 25,000 was provided to Sanjay Parte who was injured by a captive elephant in the tiger...

CWRC, Kaziranga, July 22, 2015 : A full grown male common leopard of around ten years of age was released back to the wild by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) -Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) run wildlife rescue centre CWRC’s Mobile Veterinary...

Elephants are long-lived creatures. As an Order, Proboscideans have existed nearly 60 million years. The Asian elephant has been around at least 250,000 years. The average elephant lives 60 years, and can sometimes live up to a...

Two months is a relatively short amount of time in an elephant’s...

We walked almost a kilometre from the place where we left the jeep. The evening sun was still hot and signs of the forthcoming summer were...

Diphu, August 22, 2015: Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council formally handed over a newly constructed MVS Field Station to WTI at a function in Diphu, district headquarters of Karbi Anglong,...

Valmiki Tiger Reserve, August 12, 2015: Under IFAW-WTI's Supplementary Accident Insurance Scheme, Meena Devi, wife of Late Sunil Mahto, was handed over a cheque of Rs 1 lakh as an ex-gratia...

Kaziranga, August 28, 2015: A male juvenile spotted pond turtle that was handed over to CWRC, the IFAW-WTI wildlife care facility, has been released back to the place of...

Four common palm civets being hand raised at IFAW-WTI run CWRC are ready for the in-situ acclimatisation. At present, the civets are housed in an outdoor enclosure and are being fed milk, fruits and an occasional...

Chamuagati Gaon, August 28, 2015: More than 400 people participated in a peace rally called by IFAW-WTI team at Chamuagati Gaon near Manas National Park in Assam to generate awareness on the need to protect wildlife in and around the...

Kaziranga, August 28, 2015: Commemorating the 13th Foundation Day of CWRC, IFAW-WTI wildlife care facility supported by Assam Forest Department, the first batch employees were felicitated by senior journalists during a programme organised by the...

Participants learning rope rescues  Similipal Biosphere Reserve, September 1, 2015: Wildlife Trust of India’s (WTI) Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) in Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Odisha, organised a training programme for the frontline forest staff from...

Manas National Park, September 5, 2015: IFAW-WTI's Emergency Relief Network team conducted two health camps for livestock in villages around Manas National Park and Manas Reserve Forest during the floods that have inundated large parts of...

Kaziranga, September 7, 2015: Two units of Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) run by CWRC -- an IFAW-WTI wildlife care facility -- have attended to 11 cases of displaced wild animals during the ongoing flood crisis in Kaziranga National...

Barnawapara, September 2, 2015: 87 forest staff from Chhattisgarh Forest Department were trained under WTI's Van Rakshak Project. The training was jointly organised by WTI and state Forest Department in two batches from Sep 2-4 & Sep...