Crowd Control Enables Elephant Rescue her Calf in a Tea Garden in Assam
Golaghat, Assam, 24 February 2016: It was a happy ending for an elephant calf that was unable to cross a tea garden ditch in Assam, where the IFAW-WTI team managed to control a crowd and enable the mother elephant to ‘rescue’ her calf. The basic principles of wildlife conservation and welfare […] Read more »
Done Valley, Bihar, July 12, 2016: For the women of nine villages in Done Valley, Valmiki Tiger Reserve, it was a completely different perspective on the living things they see around them every day. The women – about 150 of them, from the villages of Naurangia, Majuraha, Lakshiminiya Tola, Singhrahwa, […] Read more »
Stakeholders from Arunachal Pradesh Visit Conservation Projects in Assam
Kaziranga, 20 February 2016: A four member stakeholder group from Pakke Tiger Reserve (PTR) visited the IFAW-WTI run Centre of Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) on 20th February as a part of exposure visit organised by the Centre for Bear Rehabilitation (CBRC). Visitors from Pakke with staff at CWRC, […] Read more »
Male Rhino Calf Rescued and Admitted at CWRC from Kaziranga
CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, 22 March 2016: A week old male rhino calf rescued by the staff of Bagori forest range of Kaziranga National Park was admitted on Saturday the 19th March to the IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC). The forest staff of Donga forest camp […] Read more »
A Royal Couple, Orphaned Animals and a Painted Elephant
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit IFAW-WTI’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation, interact with orphaned elephants and rhinos, and paint an elephant with schoolchildren at the Kaziranga Discovery Park. Read more »
School Bags Help the Flight of the Amur Falcon
On April 1, 2016, the students of two schools of village Pangti in the Sungro administrative circle of Wokha district, Nagaland received a special gift: new school bags. WTI’s Dilip Deori distributing bags to schoolchildren at Pangti village The bags were presented by the village council members of […] Read more »
Oponthung Memorial Scholarship Instituted for Students of Three Villages in Wokha, Nagaland
Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has instituted a scholarship programme in memory of the late Oponthung W Jami, a dedicated conservationist who worked as a forester with the Nagaland Forest Department. Read more »
A Happier Home for Two Udaypur Hog Deer
In January this year, while I was working as a rehabilitator for IFAW-WTI's Emergency Relief Network at the International Kite Festival in Porbandar, Gujarat, I received news of an opportunity to work with a pair of captive Hog Deer (Axis porcinus) Read more »
Major Burn on Illegal Wildlife Trade as Kenya Sends Ivory, Rhino Horn up in Smoke
April 30, 2016: Kenya sent a clear and potent message to criminals participating in the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade by torching 105 tonnes of ivory and 1.35 tonnes of rhino horn at Nairobi National Park this afternoon. A Kenya Wildlife Service ranger guards the ivory stockpile in […] Read more »
Legal Assistance Review Meetings held in Kanha, Pench TRs
WTI team members with Forest Department officials at one of the Legal Assistance Review Meetings Wildlife offences are complex phenomena often resulting from an interplay of cultural, economic, social and environmental factors. At their centre of course are the wild species, sometimes critically endangered species, that have been affected. […] Read more »
