When Assam Floods displace animals, humans step in to help
Kaziranga, August 23, 2019: Almost a month after the flood waters submerged 95 percent of Kaziranga National Park, the wildlife rescue centre we run near this UNESCO World Heritage Site has five new resident rhino calves.… Read more ›
Vivek Menon wins the prestigious Clark R. Bavin award for excellence in combatting wildlife crime
21 August 2019, Geneva Vivek Menon, founder, trustee, executive director and CEO of Wildlife Trust of India, wins the Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award, 2019 for a decades-long career training more than 20,000 wildlife… Read more ›
Celebrating International Tiger Day with a roar
July 30, 2019 : On July 29, 2019, WTI orchestrated and participated in Global Tiger Day celebrations in a number of its project areas, in concert with local communities, state forest departments, partner NGOs and other… Read more ›
Wildlife Trust of India, ED & CEO, Vivek Menon said “Continuing our effort for holistic conservation action, we celebrate the new tiger census numbers of 2976 with a commitment to manage the emerging issues of tiger conservation, that of habitat degradation and human-tiger conflict. On International Tiger Day, I use the opportunity to announce the release of an animation movie, “Kinara” made by WTI that deals with human-tiger conflict.” This film is to be shared by Sri Prakash Javdekar, Hon'ble Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of Information and Broadcasting with officials at a function within the Ministry to celebrate International Tiger Day. Read more ›
International Mangrove Day Celebration in Kerala
Trivandrum, Kerala, July 29, 2019: The UNESCO mandated 'International Day for the conservation of the mangrove ecosystems' is celebrated every year on 26July 26. This year International Mangrove Day is indeed a milestone for mangrove conservation in… Read more ›
Raipur, Chattisgarh, July 18, 2019 : Owing to increased instances of human-elephant conflict, the Ministry of Environment Forests & Climate Change (MoEFCC) in the 14th Steering Committee Meeting of the Project Elephant Division last year, had… Read more ›
Rhino calves rescued in Assam Floods
Flood waters separate young rhinos from their mothers. Exhausted and unable to keep up in swirling currents, they land up in backyards of inundated homes, looking for some high ground to lay their tired feet on.… Read more ›
Tiger caught sleeping on bed in Assam home after fleeing the Kaziranga Floods
Kaziranga, Assam, July 19, 2019 : Floodwaters bring in the most unlikely guests. This time it was a tiger at a house in Harmouti in the Kohora range, relaxing on a bed. The IFAW-WTI- Assam Forest Department… Read more ›
July 18, 2019 : 14th July is celebrated as Shark awareness day around the globe and aims to spread awareness on different species of sharks and their relevance to the ocean & humans at large. Sharks… Read more ›
Alternative Livelihood Training on Pisciculture at USTR
Udantai Sitanadi Tiger Reserve, Chattisgarh, July 12, 2019 : The state of Chhattisgarh accounts for more than 42% of the forest cover in our country. However, it is being highly threatened by habitat degradation from a… Read more ›
