NEWS & UPDATES

Valmiki Nagar, November 10, 2015: WTI in partnership with NABU and Valmiki TR imparted training on legal aspects of enforcement of Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and Wildlife Crime Prevention to 120 frontline staff of Valmiki...

Bhubaneswar, December 11, 2015: Odisha Government signed MoU with Wildlife Trust of India for preparation of a Comprehensive Wildlife Management Plan for the whole...

As a wildlife vet posted with WTI’s MVS unit in Bandipur Tiger Reserve, I have handled quite a few strange and some rather amusing cases. But the case I was called out on a couple of weeks ago is worth telling a story. Blog by Dr Shanatanu...

The Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) unit of IFAW-WTI’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) rescued a female Burmese python and its clutch of eggs from Kokilamukh in the Jorhat district of Assam this...

Delhi, January 25, 2016: In yet another attempt to rescue and treat birds injured by kite strings during the kite flying festival also known as Uttarayan and Makar Sankranti, IFAW-WTI organised veterinary camps in Gujarat and...

Kaziranga, January 28, 2016: An injured male jungle cat has been admitted to CWRC from Lakhowjan TE of Bokakhat sub division in Goghat district of...

Tezpur, Assam, June 27, 2016: The Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) unit of IFAW-WTI’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) successfully intervened to help guide a rhino, which had strayed out of Kaziranga National Park, back to safety...

Golaghat, January 30, 2016:A sub-adult female clouded leopard that was rescued by villagers in Assam sprinted back to the forest after recovering from a surgery performed by IFAW- WTI veterinarians at the CWRC in Kaziranga...

The Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) unit of IFAW-WTI’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) rescued a female Burmese python and its clutch of eggs from Kokilamukh in the Jorhat district of Assam on the morning of June 24,...

June 29, 2016: Today marks the first anniversary of the passing of Peter Pueschel, Director for International Environmental Agreements at the International Fund for Animal Welfare...

Kaziranga, January 30, 2016: An injured female hog deer rescued from Dhansiri-Hahchora village under Numaligarh forest beat of Golaghat district on January 27, 2016, was released in Kaziranga National Park on January 29,...

Saifai, February 2, 2016: On World Wetlands Day, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Shri Akhilesh Yadav released the ‘Crane Constituencies – Important Sarus Wetland Sites in the Agricultural Landscape of Eastern Uttar...

Arunachal Pradesh, July 01, 2016: For many tribes in the biodiversity-rich North-eastern state of Arunachal, hunting, even though it is banned under the Wild Life (Protection) Act of 1972, remains a way of life – their primary source of meat, recreation,...

Kaziranga NP, February 7, 2016: A sub-adult female leopard was rescued and released back to the wild by the IFAW-WTI team with no human...

WTI supported Adhith Swaminathan of the Dakshin Foundation through a Rapid Action Project aimed at conducting comprehensive surveys to assess the status and distribution of leatherback turtle nesting sites in the Nicobar...

Mandla, January 20, 2016: Madhya Pradesh Forest Department and WTI conducted Wildlife Crime Prevention Training in Kanha TR for 76 frontline forest staff from January 11 to...

Kaziranga, February 15, 2016: Two Himalayan griffon vultures suspected of being poisoned were rescued by the forest staff of Sibsagar Forest Range from Demow in Assam. These scavengers were admitted to IFAW-WTI run CWRC for care on February 11,...

A four- to six-month-old male Asian elephant calf that had been separated from its mother and natal herd was reunited with them by the North Bank unit of IFAW-WTI’s Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) on June...

Manas, 16 February, 2016: Two rhinos undergoing acclimatisation at an enclosure set up by IFAW-WTI and the Assam Forest Department were today released in Manas National Park in...

Ram Terang, July 07, 2016: To mark the 67th Vanamahotsava – the annual week-long tree plantation festival observed across India – the Silonijan Forest Range Office, Karbi Anglong, and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) organised a tree plantation programme in...