Snake charmers as Barefoot Conservation Educators
New Delhi : Over thirty years after the introduction of the Wildlife Protection Act, which banned the catching of snakes in India , a small community of snake charmers continues to practice its trade catching over 400,000 snakes every year, which ultimately die, in complete defiance of the law. Read more »
Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh : An inflatable boat that was rapidly arranged by the Wild Rescue programme of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has finally reached its destination after a week’s delay enroute. The arrival of the boat has finally facilitated attempts at ferrying supplies to the Centre for Bear Rehabilitation […] Read more »
Elephant Deaths on Railway Tracks Throws Conservation off Gear
Guwahati: Three elephants were killed by a speeding train and two were injured yesterday on a railway track running through Rani-Garbhanga Reserve Forest and Deepar Beel Wildlife Sanctuary near Azara Railway station near Guwahati , Assam . The three elephants that were killed by the train in Azara raise the […] Read more »
New Delhi: Ashok Kumar, Senior Advisor and Trustee, Wildlife Trust of India has been at the forefront of the fight against poachers and illegal trade of wildlife and wildlife derivatives in India for over two decades. Here he recounts an interesting case of a python that was used by a […] Read more »
Memorial Tusk Trumpets Truth Behind Ivory Trade
London : A shocking new exhibit in London ’s Docklands was unveiled today to act as a memorial to the millions of elephants gunned down to feed the ivory trade. The exhibit, a huge bloody tusk has been built out of more than 700 pieces of ivory given up […] Read more »
Watchers on a Vigil in Dachigam
Dachigam National Park : Unknown to the media, an initiative taken by Wildlife Trust of India at the grass-roots level in Dachigam National Park has infused fresh hope for protection of the habitat of the hangul in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Read more »
CONSERVATIONIST-PRIMATOLOGIST JANE GOODALL TO VISIT INDIA
New Delhi: For the little girl who grew up in war-ravaged England in the 1940s, the stories of Tarzan and Dr Dolittle, who lived in the jungles of Africa with their wild companions, were to change her life forever. Determined to share a forest home with African animals, she grew […] Read more »
CWRC RESCUES ELEPHANT CALF FROM KARBI ANGLONG
KAZIRANGA: A four-month-old female elephant calf has been rescued by forest guards from the forests of the Karbi Anglong district in Assam and is now being treated at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation(CWRC) here. Read more »
FEMALE CALF RESCUED FROM ARUNACHAL PRADESH
KAZIRANGA: A female calf was rescued yesterday near from a thickly forested area between Bhalukpong and Tippi in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Read more »
Shahtoosh Identifying Kit Enables Seizure in Dubai
Dubai : The Dubai government seized 90 shahtoosh shawls and 10 shahtoosh scarves from Kashmiri owned shops on 31 st July. The seizure was effected using a kit designed and developed by the Metropolitan Police, UK and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to identify shahtoosh from similar products. Read more »
