WTI Provides Compensation to Tiger Attack Victim in Wayanad
Wayanad, June 3, 2015: WTI under its Executive Director’s Discretionary Grant provided Rs 20,000 to a tiger attack victim near Wayanad WLS. The cheque was handed over to him at the hospital by the Range Forest Officer in the presence of WTI team Read more »
Training of Trainers Programme Held at Wardha
Wardha, October 30, 2015: Under the Working with Communities initiative, WTI in technical collaboration with Centre of Science for Villages organised a three-day training programme for six SHG members at Women’s Science Park in Wardha. Read more »
Kaziranga Flood Alert: Elephant Family and WTI Train Volunteers on Wildlife Rescue
Kaziranga, June 19, 2015: The ongoing pre-flood awareness campaign in Kaziranga with support from Elephant Family and Kaziranga Forest Authority saw the youth from the corridor villages being trained on wildlife rescue by the experts from CWRC. Read more »
IFAW-WTI Rescues and Translocates Stranded Gibbon Family in Arunachal
Wakro, November 4, 2015: IFAW-WTI rescued a family of gibbons from a discontinuous canopy cover in Wakro in Arunachal Pradesh and translocated them to a dense reserve forest contiguous to Kamlang Wildlife Sanctuary. Read more »
IFAW-WTI Conducts Training on Cross-border Wildlife Trafficking in Bhutan
Gelephu, June 19, 2015: Four workshops on countering wildlife trafficking at the Indo-Bhutan border were conducted by IFAW-WTI in Bhutan last week by a joint team of experts from India and Bhutan. The workshops were conducted from June 13-19 Read more »
Two Rehabbed Elephants Reintegrated with Wild Herd
Two IFAW-WTI rehabilitated elephants were captured on camera accompanying a herd of wild elephants for more than 60 days. This could likely be the first-ever successful reintegration of rehabilitated calves into the wild herds in Assam. Read more »
Captive Elephants of Northeast now have a Clinic in Kaziranga
Borjuri, Kaziranga, November 10, 2015: A clinic for elephants of the northeast was inaugurated today at the upcoming Mark Shand Memorial Learning Centre by Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Founding Patron of the UK based charity Elephant Family and its CEO Read more »
IFAW-WTI Rehabilitated Rhino Gives Birth in Manas NP
Manas, June 19, 2015: IFAW-WTI’s effort to repopulate Manas National Park in Assam with rhinos is paying rich dividends with one of the hand reared rhinos, Ganga, giving birth to a healthy calf. This is Ganga’s second calf in four years. Read more »
Villagers Give Right of Passage to Elephants in Kalapahar-Daigurung Corridor
New Ram Terang, Karbi Anglong, 11 November 2015: A line up of drummers and dancers in their festive best broke into their routine at the first sight of the dignitaries that converged from various parts of the world to this picturesque unknown corner in the north eastern state of […] Read more »
International alliance to raise £20 million to secure 100 corridors for elephants
London, June 30, 2015: In the light of increasing fragmentation of forests and rising Human–Elephant conflict in India, five NGOs united under a MoU to raise £20 million for securing 100 elephant corridors in India by 2025. Read more »
