MVS Team Helps Provide Conflict Leopard Safe Passage Back to the Wild in Jorhat
Jorhat, Assam, March 5, 2017: Working in concert with the Assam Forest Department (AFD), a Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) team recently helped resolve a conflict situation by assisting a leopard that had strayed into a human settlement return safely to the wild. Read more »
First-hand Account: Capturing the Man-eater of Pilibhit
Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, February 20, 2017: Nine days ago, a WTI Rapid Response Team assisted the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department in tranquilising and capturing a tiger that was declared a man-eater after having killed multiple people in the fringe areas of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. Read more »
RAP Addresses Human-Leopard Conflict and Fall in Leopard Numbers in Rajasthan’s Jaipur District
Jaipur, Rajasthan, January 30, 2017: Leopards occupy the highest trophic level in the forests of Rajasthan’s Jaipur district. The best stealth predators among India’s big cats, they are highly adaptable and particularly adept at living close to human habitations. Read more »
Ongoing RAP in the Sundarbans Enlists Help from Local Communities to Mitigate Human-Tiger Conflict
Sundarban National Park, West Bengal, January 18, 2017: In a bid to engage with local communities affected by human-tiger conflict in the Gurguria Bhubaneswari Gram Panchayat in Sundarban National Park, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), as part of a Rapid Action Project launched last November Read more »
First-hand Account: MVS Team Rescues, Releases Tezpur Conflict Tigress
An IFAW-WTI Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) team led by veterinarians Dr Samshul Ali (CWRC) and Dr Jahan Ahmed (MVS - North Bank) rescued a conflict tigress from the North Eastern Regional Institute of Water and Land Management (NERIWALM) campus in Read more »
MVS Bandipur Assists Karnataka Forest Department in Release of Maddur Conflict Leopard
Moolehole Range, Bandipur Tiger Reserve, September 16, 2016: At around 8.00am yesterday, Wildlife Trust of India’s Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) unit at Bandipur Tiger Reserve received a call from Mr Abhilash, Range Forest Officer, Maddur, regarding a leopard that had been caught in a cage trap near Berambadi village. The […] Read more »
It is difficult to predict what will happen with a sedated animal running free. It could lie low till the effect of the sedatives has passed and then make a dash for safety. Read more »
