NEWS & UPDATES

Jaipur, February 24, 2015: A mock funeral procession of a large model of a bird carcass on the streets of Jaipur is not what the residents of the city are used...

Delhi, February 17, 2015: Dr Piyush Shastri talks about his experience in handling avian emergencies during the Makar Sankranti festival and how the recent ERN workshop laid a roadmap for future in handling avian emergencies across the...

Last month our Mithapur Coral Reef Recovery Project's Field Officer S Goutham explored the depths beyond the reef’s edge (about 1.5 km from the shore!). He pens down his breath-taking underwater...

In his blog Jose Louies takes us through a historic day that saw religious boundaries being blurred to stop #BloodIvory trade. On Jan 26, Sri Lanka crushed and burnt 359 tusks in a religious ceremony in Colombo and prayed for souls of dead...

Kaziranga, 22 October, 2014: Sunday night saw yet another arrival of a female elephant calf at the IFAW- WTI run CWRC. The calf was rescued by the Assam FD from villagers who had kept the calf in their custody and were worshipping it as a...

Wokha, October 21, 2014: Upon the arrival of the Amur falcons, the villagers of Ashaa, Pangti and Sungro once again reaffirmed their last year’s commitment and dedication to protect the falcons with the support of WTI and Nagaland Forest...

Wayanad, October 13, 2014: IFAW-WTI has handed over an ex-gratia of 25000 INR to injured Section Forest Officer V R Shaji of the Tholpety Range of Wayanad WLS as part of their Accidental Insurance Scheme of the Van Rakshak Project...

Bandipur, Sept 19 2014: The Karnataka State Forest Department along with the Karnataka Police Department, with assistance from WTI and Voice for Wildlife, seized 2.5 kg of Asian elephant ivory and 50 kg of antlers and horns, last...

Kaziranga, September 1, 2014: Four Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) units o IFAW-WTI along with the State Forest Department, NGOs and the local community, have rescued 33 wild animals wh who had moved out during the recent flood wave in...

Kaziranga, August 17 2014: On constant vigil with the ongoing floods in Kaziranga National Park, the IFAW-WTI run CWRC is all set with a team of veterinarians, animal keepers, biologists and other conservationists to safeguard the affected...

Manas, August 16, 2014: Dr Bhaskar Choudhury, Regional Head (Assam) of WTI wrote this blog as he was monitoring the rehabilitated rhinos, now proud mothers in the wild, and fondly remembering being there when they first came in as orphan...

Well known international cricketer and wildlife lover Anil Kumble today joined hands with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) to support the cause of conservation at the book launch of WTI's CEO Vivek Menon’s Indian Mammals- A Field...

Paro, Bhutan, February 10, 2014:The opening speech of H.E. Lyonpo Yeshey Dorji, H'ble Minister of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Govt of Bhutan at the Opening Ceremony of the 2nd Prevention of Wildlife Trade Workshop organised by IFAW-WTI with...

Jharkhand, February 3, 2014: Securing a future for the elephant ‘the heritage animal’ in India, its continued survival in the wild constitute a major challenge faced by wildlife...

Theni, Friday, January 17, 2014: Wildlife Foundation (WF), a Meghamalai based conservation organisation, with the aid of Wildlife Trust of India, along with the support of the Tamil Nadu Forest Department and Aircel, has started anti-snare...

Thiruvananthapuram, December 6, 2013: In a boost to the welfare of the captive elephants in the state, a seven-day elephant training workshop is currently underway in the Koottoor Elephant Rehabilitation Centre in Agasthyavanam Biological Park,...

Over the last two months, school children in the Nagzira-Nawegaon corridor in the Central Indian tiger landscape have taken a step further to a greener livelihood by participating in a sapling plantation...

NOIDA, October 1, 2013: Students across the country will be a part of the special series of awareness activities on the occasion of the annual wildlife week beginning...

Ninety nine households located in human-elephant conflict prone areas of Wokha district received 4950 kg rice as ‘grain-for-grain’ relief through a Rapid Action Project (RAP) to assist elephant conservation efforts in the...

NOIDA, July 31, 2013: When people talk about wildlife they agree on the need to protect them, how they need to be kept safe from all those determined to profit from them. Not talked about often, however, are the people trying to do exactly that – the...