NEWS & UPDATES

Jadegindam, July 28, 2015: The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI)-World Land Trust (WLT) initiative of providing teaching aid to school children started in 2013 as part of conservation support to Jadegindam -- a key village on the Rewak-Emangre...

Coimbatore, September 29, 2015: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), in partnership with OSAI, organised a one day consultative meeting on the impact of linear intrusions on wildlife in Western Ghats. The meeting was held in Coimbatore and attended by officials...

Investigation team examining the artefacts inside kingpin Umesh’Aggrawal’s house Delhi, 2 October, 2015: In a carefully planned operation, a kingpin of the ivory trade was apprehended by an enforcement team comprising the Wildlife Crime Control...

Bokakhat/Guwahati, October 7, 2015: Celebrating the Wildlife Week,IFAW-WTI organised various fun filled activities for school students in Assam to raise awareness about wildlife...

Kaziranga, September 27, 2015: IFAW-WTI run CWRC recently rescued a rare hog badger from human habitation and released it back into the wild with crucial support from Assam Forest...

Koilamati, October 7, 2015: WTI in partnership with Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund, Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council and Assam Forest Department has organised the Elephant Cup Football tournament for the second consecutive...

Tezpur, Assam, October 5, 2015: A timeline of the sequence of event that unfolded after a tiger was spotted at the All India Radio Campus in Tezpur, Assam. The IFAW-WTI team from CWRC rushed to the spot and remained there till it was confirmed that...

WTI, IFAW and EF are shocked to see the moving video of elephants being blocked from their ritual right of passage by a wall that lies around property of the Numaligarh...

Kaziranga, October 8, 2015: A month old female elephant calf was admitted at CWRC -- an IFAW-WTI animal care facility -- from Thoramukh Tea Garden near Daigurung RF area of Karbi Anglong on October 9,...

Shivpuri, October 8, 2015: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), along with Madhya Pradesh Forest Department, jointly conducted Wildlife Crime Prevention Training for 98 frontline forest staff of Gwalior and Shivpuri circles in Madhya...

Thiruvananthapuram, October 15, 2015: In yet another major breakthrough for the Kerala Forest Department, three seasoned elephant poachers from Tamil Nadu and a middle man was arrested from the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border on October 15,...

CWRC, Assam, 18 October 2015: Two male elephant calves, both under three months old were admitted to the IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) within 72 hours of each other.  A two and half month old male elephant calf was...

In his blog, Vivek Menon asks, when was the last time one truly travelled wild and chose the untrammelled dirt tracks of a wilderness with a feeling of indescribable lightness in the...

Dudhwa National Park, 19 October 2015: Under continued efforts to sensitize local school children towards wildlife conservation, the Wildlife Trust of India’s (WTI) Uttar Pradesh Big Cat Conflict Mitigation Project organised a wall painting competition...

Pench TR, October 16, 2015: The second Central India legal assistance review meeting was held in Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, on October 16, 2015. The joint meeting of the Forest Department and WTI was conducted withan aim to strengthen...

Valmikinagar, October 27, 2015: The mammal’s checklist of Valmiki Tiger Reserve – the only tiger reserve and national park in Bihar -- has a new addition. The Himalayan brown goral was for the first time sighted and photographed in...

Kokrajhar, December 2, 2015: A three day-long Wildlife Crime Prevention Training for the front line staff of Haltugaon and Chirang forest division in Manas Tiger Reserve was organised by IFAW-WTI with support from...

Mangrol, December 11, 2015: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) in partnership with Gujarat Forest Department and Tata Chemicals celebrated the Gujarat Whale Shark Day with much gusto in the coastal town of Mangrol in Gujarat on December 11,...

Shergaon, December 16, 2015: In a first of its kind sensitization programme on Asiatic black bears, 14 youth from Shergaon - a small but important area in Arunachal Pradesh – were taken on an exposure visit to IFAW-WTI run CBRC in Pakke Tiger...

IFAW-WTI organised the ‘Capacity Building Workshop on Cites Appendix II listing of Sharks and Manta Ray Species’ in Kochi from December 15 to 16, 2015. It was organised in collaboration with MoEF&CC, Kerala Govt, Manta Trust and Pew Charitable...