Government acts on WTI-IFAW study, Creates Greater Manas
Udalguri, Assam: Manas National Park, a UN World Heritage Site, plagued by militancy for over a decade, got a fresh lease of life as the local tribal government effectively trebled the area under it, calling it… Read more ›
WTI information leads to Ivory traders’ arrest in Orissa
Keonjhar (Orissa): Based on the information provided by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), four persons were arrested last Friday, March 7, while trying to sell elephant tusks to decoy customers in Haridagoth, a town near Keonjhar,… Read more ›
Veraval, Gujarat: Fishermen have released another whale shark from their nets – this time off the coast of Veraval, where about 30 people took their turn in a rescue operation which lasted for more than three… Read more ›
Bear cub rescued – mama killed
Kaziranga: Villagers in Khsiapung village have handed over an infant bear cub to a local NGO after her mother was brutally killed by poachers in Karbi Anglong district in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam. (more…) Read more ›
IFAW helps animals in flood ravaged Indonesia
Yarmouth Port, Mass: After suffering the worst flood in its modern history, Jakarta is now busy trying to recover from the devastation. The floods began in early February and, at one point, covered 80% of Indonesia’s… Read more ›
Tibetans replace Tiger skins with silk brocades from India
New Delhi: Tibetan people are gradually switching over to exquisite brocade dresses in place of animal skin Chubas - widely used in festivals and ceremonies in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, experts monitoring the illegal… Read more ›
Four years imprisonment for Rhino traders in West Bengal
New Delhi: In one of the quickest convictions two rhino horn traders were today sentenced to four years imprisonment and a fine of rupees 10,000 each in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. The accused… Read more ›
Conservationalist Call on China to support Law over Tiger farms
New Delhi: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) joined an international group comprising twenty-eight tiger conservation organizations exhorting China to maintain its successful ban on tiger trade. This was in response to a recent petition by tiger… Read more ›
Canada to slaughter 270,000 seal pups
Charlottetown, Canada: Conservationists around the globe condemned the Canadian annual seal hunt which will soon witness the death of 270,000 harp seal pups - the largest legal and organized hunt in the world. This cruel hunt… Read more ›
Sloth bear cubs rescued in Bihar
New Delhi: Five sloth bear cubs were rescued from two persons in Munger district in the eastern Indian state of Bihar yesterday by a joint team of forest and police officials, an official investigating in the… Read more ›
