Tiger Cub Release: An Eyewitness Account
The rescue and the decision to release the sub-adult tigers in the Kaziranga National Park in the north-eastern Assam state, happened so fast that we at WTI were scrambling to get photographers and video crews in… Read more ›
Kaziranga Mahout Mauled by Tigress
Tamuli Pathar Village , Kaziranga : A large adult tigress, suspected to be the mother of the two cubs rescued from this village on Sunday, severely mauled the mahout of an Assam forest department elephant, which… Read more ›
Kaziranga Gears Up to Combat Floods
Kaziranga : An annual feature of nature’s fury unleashes in the form of floods at Kaziranga National Park and displaces hundreds of animals from their habitat. (more…) Read more ›
Kaziranga: A two month old female leopard cub was rescued from the Doom Dooma forest near Tinsukia, affected by the recent floods in the Brahmaputra river in India’s north-eastern Assam state. It was brought to the… Read more ›
Porbandar Adopts Whale Shark as City Mascot
All roads of Porbandar, the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, led to the Chowpatty beach this Sunday, as thousands of residents converged here to accord a ceremonial welcome to the world's largest fish. Aniruddha Mookerjee recounts a… Read more ›
Whale Shark is Star Attraction on World Environment Day
Ahmedabad: Visitors to the Centre of Environment Education (CEE) in Ahmedabad were amazed at the sight of a 40 ft fish on the lawns. As each of the 1500 visitors touched and felt this man-made wonder,… Read more ›
Floods Cut Off Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga: A third round of floods has totally cut off road traffic to Kaziranga National Park (KNP) from Guwahati in India ’s north eastern Assam state. The road was under 10 feet of water at Naogaon… Read more ›
Round the Clock Rescue Operations in Kaziranga
Kaziranga: Yet another rhino calf was rescued from the floods and brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC), where its wounds were treated by the Centre veterinarian. This brings the count of rhino… Read more ›
Kaziranga, Assam : Delayed reports from the field and video replays of the attack by the tigress on the mahout Satya Pegu, tell a different story, where human lives were saved purely due to “quick thinking”… Read more ›
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… Read more ›
