IFAW to eBay: First clean up your own site
Yarmouth Port (USA): IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) expressed dismay with eBay’s investment in a new “socially responsible” web site when it has not yet meaningfully addressed significant animal welfare and conservation issues on its own flagship site. Read more »
4 sloth bears readied for Indian Kalandar market seized in Nepal
Delhi: Four sloth bears including a cub were rescued by authorities in Lahan in the southeastern Sirhaha district in Nepal, last week, acting on the information provided by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). Three of the four bears were adults trained as dancing bears to be sold to Kalandars in […] Read more »
Second seizure of illegally-procured teak in less than 24 hours
Delhi: Less than a day after more than 100 cubic feet of illegally-procured teak was seized at Old Delhi Railway Station, another consignment of a higher quantity headed for the same station was intercepted and seized today at Ghaziabad Railway Station. Read more »
A Kalandar’s life beyond the bears
Nawada (Bihar): Mohammad Sovrati returns to his rented apartment late in the evening, tired but satisfied, after a hard day of ferrying load in his new carrier rickshaw. He had bought it a few months ago with funds from an alternative livelihood package made available to Kalandars like him under […] Read more »
Wildlife traders held in Bijnor, UP
Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh): Three wildlife traders were arrested from Chandpur Village in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday, when they unwittingly attempted to sell ivory and elephant molar teeth to a decoy customer. Two molar teeth weighing five kilogrammes each were seized from them in the undercover operation, jointly implemented by […] Read more »
Penguins flown South for record-breaking release to the wild in Brazil
Rio Grande (Brazil): Close to 400 rescued penguins took to the skies on a C-130 Hercules military aircraft bound for Pelotas, in southern Brazil where they were released back to their ocean home. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) assisted the Instituto Mamíferos Aquáticos (IMA) and Brazilian officials to […] Read more »
800 openbill storks die in Assam as nesting tree collapses
Shilonijan (Assam): In a freak accident, more than 800 Asian openbill storks, mostly chicks and juveniles, were killed as the banyan tree on which they were nesting collapsed on Monday night. Read more »
Nilgiris (Tamil Nadu): In contrast to the disappointing decline in India’s overall tiger population revealed in the latest census, tiger numbers in Tamil Nadu’s protected areas have shown a promising increase since 2002. An increase in tiger population was also seen in the non-protected areas of the state, including the […] Read more »
IFAW-WTI team rescues wild tiger from well
Tezpur (Assam): In a daring operation, an adult male tiger which had fallen into an open well, was rescued and released today by the forest department and the rescue team from International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI). Read more »
Conservationists continue to sound alarm over international ivory sale
Delhi: The controversial auction of nearly 108 tonnes of stockpiled ivory (equivalent to about 10,000 dead elephants) from four African nations to bidders Japan and China, begins in a week. Read more »
