Media for Wildlife – Creating Dialogue
August 28, 2019, Nagpur: A workshop aimed to bring together journalists from Nagpur, Chandrapur and Gondia, was organised today at Nagpur to discuss how media can benefit conservation actions through factual and positive reporting. Fifteen journalists and editors representing media houses like Lokmat, Dainik Bhaskar, Navhbarat, Sakal, Indian Express, Times […] Read more »
Leopard rescue in Dibrugarh Town
Dibrugarh, August 22, 2019: A very difficult rescue operation was conducted successfully by our team of veterinarian, biologist and animal keeper when a leopard was released back to the wild after being tranquilised and removed safely from a house surrounded by a large mob. The sighting of a leopard sitting […] Read more »
Empowering women to build sustainable livelihoods in Vidarbha
Gondia, August 24, 2019: Community-based conservation in Vidarbha just got an added fillip when women from three Self Help Groups supported by Wildlife Trust of India won awards for their social enterprises. WTI has been working to facilitate unhindered tiger movement across the Central Indian landscape of Nagzira-Nawegaon-Tadoba Andhari Tiger […] Read more »
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. Rescued under various situations from swirling floodwaters or separated from their mothers, the rhino […] 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 enforcement officers in more than 50 countries; documenting, prioritizing and securing elephant corridors in […] 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 supporters. All our major stakeholders like students, conservationists, government authorities, communities were involved in […] 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 Kerala since the Forest Minister of the state proposed to create a mangrove cell […] 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 decided to hold four regional workshops on “Right of Passage to Elephants to mitigate […] 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. Calves below two years of age are brought to the IFAW-WTI wildlife rescue centre […] Read more »
