NEWS & UPDATES

London, June 30, 2015: In the light of increasing fragmentation of forests and rising Human–Elephant conflict in India, five NGOs united under a MoU to raise £20 million for securing 100 elephant corridors in India by...

Blog by Dr Shantanu Kalambi. I always imagined a wildlife veterinarian’s job required a high level of fitness with loads of running towards animals and running away from them,jumping on crocodiles (Steve Irwin be praised). Sadly, it...

Bokakhat, October 16, 2015: As part of IFAW-WTI Supplemental Accident Insurance Scheme, ex-gratia support of Rs 50,000 was provided to the family members of late Naba Krishna Mahanta in Kaziranaga...

Agartala, June 25, 2015: Two leopards hand-raised at the IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) were shifted to Sipahijala Zoological Park in Tripura for lifetime care on June 25,...

Doyang, November 15, 2015: Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, paid a visit to Doyang in Nagaland and met up with WTI team that briefed him about the conservation of Amur...

The following is a first person account by Jose Louise on his experiment with technology to fight wildlife trade in...

Kaziranga, July 6, 2015: A neonate male rhino calf rescued by the Kaziranga Forest Department from flood waters was admitted to IFAW-WTI run CWRC for further...

Pench, July 6, 2015: A 10-day long training on wildlife crime prevention conducted by IFAW and WTI concluded today. This refresher training saw participation of around 277 frontline forest staff from the Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya...

Guwahati, June 26, 2015: WTI leads the way in creation of a first ever women volunteer team in Assam for leopard-human conflict...

Elephant Family and WTI gave hands-on skill development training on GPS to volunteers. This training was to ensure safety of elephants passing through the notified corridors of Kaziranga–Karbi Anglong...

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...