NEWS & UPDATES

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...

Manas NP, February 17, 2016: A juvenile male clouded leopard under care at IFAW-WTI’s Wildlife Transit Home in Charaikhola, Kokrajhar, was shifted to the acclimatisation site at Doimari in Manas National Park as part of the...

A poacher was arrested with four leopard skins at Chandi Mandir, Haryana, on June 28 following a joint operation led by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and Central Bureau of Investigation, and supported by the Wildlife Trust of India...

CWRC, Assam, July 10, 2016: In a major update to the story published here on June 24 regarding the rescue of a Burmese python and its clutch of eggs, hatchlings have now been observed emerging from the eggs at CWRC's Small Animal...

Golaghat, Assam, 24 February 2016: It was a happy ending for an elephant calf that was unable to cross a tea garden ditch in Assam, where the IFAW-WTI team managed to control a crowd and enable the mother elephant to ‘rescue’ her calf. The basic...

Kaziranga, 20 February 2016: A four member stakeholder group from Pakke Tiger Reserve (PTR) visited the IFAW-WTI run Centre of Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) on 20th February as a part of exposure visit organised by the Centre for Bear...

Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh, 25 February 2016: A three month old Asiatic black bear cub, rescued by village youth, was handed over to the IFAW- WTI run Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation (CBRC) by the Arunachal Pradesh Forest Department early this...

CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, 22 March 2016: A week old male rhino calf rescued by the staff of Bagori forest range of Kaziranga National Park was admitted on Saturday the 19th March to the IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation...

New Ram Terang Village, March 27, 2016: Today on the Easter Sunday, the first ray of sun over the New Ram Terang Village ushered in a new horizon of hope and bright future for the recent settlers from Kalapahar-Daigurung elephant corridor. Kins of 19 families...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit IFAW-WTI’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation, interact with orphaned elephants and rhinos, and paint an elephant with schoolchildren at the Kaziranga Discovery...

Done Valley, Bihar, July 12, 2016: For the women of nine villages in Done Valley, Valmiki Tiger Reserve, it was a completely different perspective on the living things they see around them every day. The women – about 150 of them, from the villages of...