Pesticide Dealers Pledge to Protect Vultures
25th August, 2021, Siliguri: The largest of Asian Gyps vultures, the Himalayan Griffons, have long been threatened by the use of certain drugs in cattle treatment and pesticides in agriculture farming. In most of India’s countryside, deliberate poisoning of cattle carcasses too has been the reason for a substantial drop […] Read more »
Vivek Menon announces Tiger as the New Big 5
17 May 2021: The ‘Big 5’ is an old term used by trophy hunters in Africa for the five most prized and dangerous animals to shoot and kill: elephant, rhino, leopard, Cape buffalo and lion. The New Big 5 project has a better idea: to create a New Big 5 […] Read more »
885 birds rescued during Kite Festival in Gujarat and Rajasthan by WTI-IFAW Emergency Relief Network
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 11 February 2021: This January, 865 birds flew back to the wild thanks to the Emergency Relief Network of WTI – IFAW who responded to rescue calls of birds injured during the 2021 kite festival in Rajasthan and Gujarat. About 60% of the birds under treatment have […] Read more »
Raimona, Assam, 9 January 2021: In an open air event at Jamduar, Raimona forest range, frontline forest staff and NGO volunteers were equipped with essential field gears in a morale boosting initiative by Wildlife Trust of India supported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare. The event which saw participation […] Read more »
Garo Green Spine Project stakeholders conduct Cleanliness Drive on World Soil Day
Garo, Meghalaya, 24 December 2020 Wildlife Trust of India with the support of HCL Foundation in collaboration with the Garo Student Union (GSU), Southern Zone celebrated World Soil Day on the 5th of December 2020. On this day, a cleanliness drive was held in a stretch of six kilometres inside […] Read more »
IFAW –WTI – AFD Team helps provide safe passage to a Tiger in Tezpur
Tezpur, Assam, 27 November 2020: An adult tiger that had strayed out to human habitation in a village near Tezpur University and had injured two persons on Tuesday, 24th November was driven back to the wild in a concerted team operation led by the forest department, civic authorities and enforcement […] Read more »
Triple Recognition and Felicitations from Assam Forest Department to Crown Wildlife Week 2020
Guwahati, 7 October 2020: In a triple recognition for our commitment to saving wildlife, the Assam government awarded three felicitations to Wildlife Trust of India’s project and people for their exemplary services to save Assam’s natural heritage. At the concluding function of the 66th Wildlife Week organised by Assam Forest Department […] Read more »
Gharial released in Nepal travels all the way down to Hooghly.
New Delhi, 20 May 2020: A Gharial caught in fishing nets in the Hooghly near Rani Nagar Ghat of Nadia District in West Bengal sparked quite an interest among the fishermen and conservation biologists. Gharials are critically endangered with only about 650 adult individuals found in the wild in sparse […] Read more »
WTI’s Veterinarian Reunites Kitten with Jungle Cat Mother
Doomdoma, Assam, 12 April 2020: Not all animal rescues need to be brought to the wildlife rescue centre. The happiest ending to the story of a displaced animal is to find its mother. Wildlife Trust of India’s (WTI) Mobile Veterinary Service reunited a jungle cat kitten with its mother, all […] Read more »
WTI assists in Wild Buffalo translocation to Chhattisgarh
Barnawapara, 23 April 2020: In a meticulously planned and historic operation, the Chhattisgarh forest department has with the active support of the Wildlife Trust of India translocated two wild buffaloes – one male and one female, from Manas National Park in Assam to the Conservation Breeding Centre in Barnawapara, about […] Read more »
