WTI Partners with BVIEER, ONGC to Conduct Training for Conservation Guides and Naturalists
Khumbargaon, Maharasthra, August 3, 2016: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has partnered with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) and the Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environmental Education and Research (BVIEER), Pune, to conduct a skill development course for conservation guides and naturalists from Sultanpur National Park, Corbett Tiger Reserve, […] Read more »
First-hand Account: MVS Team Rescues, Releases Tezpur Conflict Tigress
An IFAW-WTI Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) team led by veterinarians Dr Samshul Ali (CWRC) and Dr Jahan Ahmed (MVS - North Bank) rescued a conflict tigress from the North Eastern Regional Institute of Water and Land Management (NERIWALM) campus in Read more »
A Rural Kho Kho Tournament to Spread the Message of Tiger Conservation
Shenda Village, Gondia, Maharashtra; September 08, 2016: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), in collaboration with the Maharashtra Forest Department, recently organised the first ever Nazgira Kho Kho Sports Event for village schools located in the Nazgira-Navegaon wildlife corridor. The event, part of a series of community outreach activities that have […] Read more »
Kaziranga Flood Update: Schoolchildren Forgo Mid-day Meal, Buy Milk Formula for Rhino Calves
Students of the Nepali Khuti Banuwa Prathamik Bidyalaya, a remote school in Golaghat, Assam, decided to sacrifice one mid-day meal in order to buy milk formula for the eight orphaned rhino calves under care at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation Read more »
Participant guides with officials from ONGC and WTI New Delhi, September 14, 2016: An event to felicitate ten conservation guides from Rajaji National Park, Sultanpur National Park and Corbett Tiger Reserve was organised at the New Delhi offices of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on September 12. The […] Read more »
WTI Assists in Rescue of Sub-adult Tiger from Fringe Village of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve
Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, Uttar Pradesh, November 24, 2016: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) personnel assisted the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department in the rescue of a tiger that had strayed out of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve and into a village Read more »
Kaziranga Flood Update: Unwell Elephant Calf Rescued by Forest Staff, Treated by MVS Team
Bagori Range, Kaziranga National Park, August 11, 2016: A female elephant calf found in a waterlogged area near the Haldibari forest beat of the Central Range of Kaziranga National Park was successfully rescued by forest staff in the early hours of August 6. An IFAW-WTI MVS team from CWRC, led […] Read more »
On World Rhino Day: Eight Famous Orphans, Three Incredible Mothers, and Some Hair-munching Idiocy
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 poaching. Read more »
WTI CEO Visits Schoolchildren Who Sacrificed Mid-day Meal to Buy Milk Formula for Rhino Calves
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 CWRC. Read more »
Conservation Legend Ashok Kumar, WTI’s Chairman Emeritus, Turns 81
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 India. Read more »
