NEWS & UPDATES

Vivek Menon, CEO of WTI and Senior Advisor to the President, IFAW, travelled yesterday to Bokakhat to meet the schoolchildren that had sacrificed a mid-day meal in order to buy milk formula for eight orphaned rhino calves housed at...

New Delhi, September 22, 2016: Today is World Rhino Day, so mandated since 2010 as a day to raise awareness about these wonderful armoured mammals, all five living species of which are threatened by habitat loss and...

Our Chairman Emeritus Mr Ashok Kumar turns 81 today. Ashokji, as he is fondly known to us, is a legendary figure, much feted, considered in the conservation community as the father of wildlife crime control in...

New Delhi, August 18, 2016: Ashok Kumar, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Wildlife Trust of India passed away today. He was...

As part of the continuing efforts under its Van Rakshak Project, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), in partnership with the Chhattisgarh Forest Department, conducted refresher training programmes for frontline staff of Indravati TR, Barnapura...

With the signing and formal issuance of a Final Gazette Notification by the Government of Assam, an area of 350 sq km from the eastern part of the Manas Reserve Forest has now been officially declared as the First Addition to Manas National...

Nilagiri District, Odisha, September 26, 2016: In a bid to engage with local communities affected by human-bear conflict in the Nilagiri district of Odisha, WTI organised street plays, mock drills, and a media workshop over the past two...

Johannesburg, South Africa, September 27, 2016: Conservationists were jubilant this evening as CITES voted once and for all to abandon the controversial Decision Making Mechanisim (DMM) for a process to trade in...

CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, November 25, 2016: A male elephant calf, about three to four months old, was rescued by an IFAW-WTI Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) team after it and its mother had fallen into a newly dug construction ditch at the...

Dudhwa National Park, Uttar Pradesh, November 18, 2016: In a bid to educate and sensitise tourists to avoid interacting with and disturbing reptiles in a rivulet outside Dudhwa National Park, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), as part of a Rapid Action Project...

Garo Hills, Meghalaya, October 13, 2016: A free, one-day Medical Health Camp for residents of four villages in the Garo Hills was conducted at the community hall of Mesimagre village on October...

Similipal Tiger Reserve September 23, 2016: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), working in partnership with the Forests & Environment Department, Government of Odisha, this morning commenced a three-day intensive training workshop at Similipal...

Late last month a WTI team successfully tranquilised and captured a male tiger, a designated man-eater who would otherwise have been put down. A first-person account of that entire operation by one of our intrepid men on the ground, Achintya...

Sultanpur National Park, August 1, 2016: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has partnered with the Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to provide 10 eco-friendly dustbins...

Moolehole Range, Bandipur Tiger Reserve, September 16, 2016: At around 8.00am yesterday, Wildlife Trust of India’s Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) unit at Bandipur Tiger Reserve received a call from Mr Abhilash, Range Forest Officer, Maddur, regarding a...

CWRC Kaziranga National Park July 28, 2016: six rhino calves rescued from the monsoon floods in Kaziranga National Park over the last three days have been admitted to the Large Animal Nursery at the Center for...

Two more rhino calves and two eastern swamp deer have also been rescued from the Kaziranga floods and brought to IFAW-WTI’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation...

Frontline forest personnel interact with trainers during a mock crime scene investigation on day two of the VRP programme at Udanti-Sitanadi Tiger Reserve Udanti-Sitanadi Tiger Reserve, Chhattisgarh, August 16, 2016: As part of the continuing efforts under...

Garo Hills, Meghalaya, August 11, 2016: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and World Land Trust (WLT), in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and with support from the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) and the...

Mainpur, Chattisghar, August 1, 2016: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and the Chattisghar Forest Department Organised an event to mark International Tiger Day in Mainpur, Udanti-Sitanadi Tiger Reserve on July...