WTI’s legal workshop helps forest staff understand the WPA better
New Delhi: The local courts in Haridwar and Dehradoon, both cities that are on the fringes of Rajaji National Park, hear a large number of cases under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 (WPA). However, a large number of forest officials (foresters, rangers and wardens) felt that the judges were not […] Read more »
Save the hornbill campaign picks up in Pakhui
Pakhui: Hornbills are especially vulnerable in North-east India due to the traditional value of these birds for their feathers, casques, medicinal value of their fat and flesh among many tribal groups. Many areas especially in eastern and central Arunachal have such high hunting pressure that the great hornbill has become […] Read more »
Ludhiana ladies pledge not to wear shahtoosh again
Ludhiana: Punjab has a tradition of wearing shahtoosh shawls. This shawl has been traditionally handed down as a family heirloom through generations especially in wealthy families. This winter the Wildlife Trust of India decided to take its `Say No to Shahtoosh” campaign to Punjab, to create awareness among the Punjabi […] Read more »
New Delhi: They now look at the rhino with different eyes. They have transformed from being poachers to becoming protectors. They are fifteen former rhino poachers, who gave up their arms recently, and took up conservation work in prime rhino habitat in Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam. WTI’s Rapid Action […] Read more »
Guwahati: The little town of Nowgaon, 120 km from Guwahati, hosts perhaps the last of the greater adjutant stork nesting sites. The clutch of silk cotton tress, located in this bustling town hold the nests of this brid, now declared as one of the most endagered stork species in the […] Read more »
IAS breaks law, his illness bails him out – Naga CM, Assam CM give a clean chit
News Courtesy – Indian Express Reporter: Sonu Jain New Delhi: In a travesty of the law, an IAS officer of Secretary rank in Assam has been cleared of criminal charges in a case of hunting in a reserved forest, on the ground that he is suffering from ”cancer”. He had […] Read more »
Captive elephants besieged with health problems
Sonepur is a small non-descript town in Saran district of Bihar. Despite its unremarkable environs, two of its features are astonishingly large. The first is its railway platform, probably the second largest in the world with a length of 2,415 ft, second only to the Storvik railway station in Sweden […] Read more »
Poachers kill two tuskers in Rajaji National Park
Rajaji National Park: Barely 11 months after the gory killing of five tuskers in Corbett National Park, poachers have struck again, this time in the adjoining Rajaji National Park. Two tuskers were poisoned to death and their tusks chopped off with axes in the Ghori Range of the park. Some […] Read more »
Synthetic beaks and billboard warnings to help save Hornbills in Pakhui
New Delhi: December 19th was a special day for Hornbills at the Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary– a stronghold of the species– in Arunachal Pradesh’s East Kameng district. That day, a large hoarding carrying a warning that Hornbills are protected by the Village Forest Development Council, which would impose a fine of […] Read more »
The Government of India has followed the example of the USA, Australia, the Philippines and other countries by declaring the whale shark a protected species and banning the whale shark trade. The shark (Rhincodon typus) is the largest living fish in the world with the largest so far having a […] Read more »
