Leopard skin and body parts seized in Himachal
Shimla: Three suspected wildlife traders were nabbed and booked under various sections of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 in Chaupal (Himachal Pradesh) on Friday for possessing wildlife goods including one leopard skin, two leopard skulls, about 11 kgs of leopard bones, 13 leopard claws and seven canines. Read more »
Attempt to reunite tiger cub with mother in Kaziranga
Kaziranga NP (Assam): Attempt to re-unite a month-old female tiger cub with her mother is in progress today in the Burapahar range of Kaziranga National Park, by the Assam Forest Department assisted by International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI). The cub was found alone by […] Read more »
New Delhi: In Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, Mowgli was adopted and raised by a pack of wolves. They helped him survive in the jungles of India and protected him from harm. Now in the Indian jungles, the wolf struggles for survival, threatened by people, and yet, with people as the […] Read more »
Golden langur conservation awareness in Manas
Kokrajhar (Assam, Manas): Celebrating the World Wildlife Week, locals in Manas in the northeast Indian state of Assam joined the Bodoland Territorial Council, Assam Forest Department and IFAW-WTI in an urgent campaign to save the golden langur – an endangered primate found in forests along the Indo-Bhutan border in Assam. […] Read more »
Transformation complete: bear dancers to conservationists
Bodh Gaya (Bihar): Committing to help eradicate bear dancing from the country, 24 former bear dancers rehabilitated by WSPA-WTI will now advocate alternative livelihoods among fellow Kalandars and promote conservation and welfare of sloth bears. Read more »
Leonardo DiCaprio joins IFAW in urging public action to shut down ivory trade
Yarmouth Port, MA: IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) yesterday announced that actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio will lead its Animal Action campaign to save elephants and shut down the cruel international ivory trade. The campaign launched this week as part of an annual international education program that reaches seven […] Read more »
Sariska tiger poacher sentenced to three years imprisonment
Alwar (Rajasthan): A person was sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate – II, Alwar, last Friday, for poaching a tiger from Sariska Tiger Reserve. Read more »
By M Ramith Craigmore (Tamil Nadu): Since we caught our first fleeting glimpse of a Nilgiri marten (Martes gwatkinsii) several months ago, a colleague and I have revisited the evergreen patch in Craigmore numerous times to photo-capture this extremely elusive endemic mustelid as evidence of their presence here. Yesterday, our […] Read more »
Greater Gir forest staff undergo ‘refresher’ training in wildlife crime prevention
Junagadh (Gujarat): Gujarat’s frontline forest staff responsible for the protection of the endangered Asiatic lion and its habitat in Greater Gir, are undergoing ‘refresher’ training to brush up their skills and knowledge in wildlife crime prevention tactics. The participants will also be provided fresh sets of field gear to facilitate […] Read more »
Another gibbon family moves to secure habitat, relocation project progresses
Roing (Arunachal Pradesh): A second family of Eastern hoolock gibbons was successfully translocated from the village of Dello to the Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary on Sunday as part of a project to save a stranded group of this endangered species of ape in Arunachal Pradesh. The family moved consisted of a […] Read more »
