Communities gear up to handle carnivore conflict in Pilibhit
Pilibhit, 22 September 2019: The upcoming harvest season for sugarcane will see a large number of people working in fields that are also preferred refuges of wild carnivores in the Terai region of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Increasing instances of wildlife caught in conflict in human dominated areas […] Read more »
Watch your Catch! Fisherwomen bring a change
Sundarbans, 22 September 2019: Sixty women from three islands in this unique ecosystem managed to release 92,000 prawn associated fauna back into the estuarine environment. Species of fishes, squids, snails, crabs snakes etc. that would have otherwise perished as bycatch were safely put back into the waters thanks to a […] Read more »
Stakeholders meet to curb illegal wildlife trade in cyber space
New Delhi, 12 September, 2019: More than 50 senior officials from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, National Tiger Conservation Authority, enforcement agencies and representatives from internet companies and e-commerce, such as Google, Flipkart and India mart met in New Delhi to work on measures to curb wildlife trade in cyber space. The stake […] Read more »
Meet the Tiger Scouts: Children show the way
Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, 12 September 2019: The key to conservation lies with communities and the best route to reach communities is through youth, as past experience has proved. Under the IUCN-KFW sponsored Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP), our team working in Sundarbans, West Bengal brought together select school children […] Read more »
Southern Railways seeks collaborative solutions to save elephants from train hits
Chennai, 6 September, 2019: Supporting our call to action on Right of Passage for elephants, Southern Railways hosted a regional workshop to discuss the future course of action to reduce elephant mortalities due to collision with speeding trains. The workshop was hosted at the Southern Railways headquarters in Chennai, in […] Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
