Male Asian Elephant Calf, Rescued in Arunachal Pradesh, Brought to CWRC
CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, June 20, 2016: A male Asian elephant calf, about two months old, rescued from village Chessa I, Papum Pare district, Arunachal Pradesh, was admitted to IFAW-WTI’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) last night. The rescued male elephant calf with CWRC animal keeper Hemkanta Nath […] Read more »
CWRC’s MVS Unit Provides Treatment to Adult Female Elephant in Kaziranga
CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, June 23, 2016: An adult female Asian elephant, suspected to be feral, was treated by the Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) unit of IFAW-WTI’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) on the afternoon of June 20, with a follow-up visit on June 22. Earlier, on June […] Read more »
CWRC Rescue Teams Swing into Action As Massive Floods Inundate Kaziranga
Kaziranga National Park has been inundated since Sunday night as water levels in the Brahmaputra River basin have continued to rise due to heavy monsoonal rains. CWRC has swung into action, deploying Mobile Veterinary Service units to aid wildlife. Read more »
Ongoing RAP in Odisha Uses Street Plays, Mock Drills as Human-Bear Conflict Mitigation Tools
Nilagiri District, Odisha, September 26, 2016: In a bid to engage with local communities affected by human-bear conflict in the Nilagiri district of Odisha, WTI organised street plays, mock drills, and a media workshop over the past two months. Read more »
CITES Update: Big Win for Pangolins at CITES with Near-unanimous Vote for Total Trade Ban
Johannesburg, South Africa, September 29, 2016: A vote yesterday at CITES decided that the most illegally traded mammal in the world urgently needs protection. All eight pangolin species are being transferred from Appendix II to Appendix I. Read more »
Rescued Softshell Turtle Treated for Injuries at CWRC, Released into the Wild
CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, October 3, 2016: A rescued softshell turtle, treated at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC; the wildlife rescue, care and rehabilitation facility run by IFAW-WTI and the Assam Forest Department) for multiple injuries from fishing hooks, was released into a stream in the central […] Read more »
IFAW-WTI Begins Handloom Skill Development Training for Village Women near Manas National Park
Kahibari, Manas National Park, October 4, 2016: With a view to encouraging ecologically appropriate livelihoods that reduce the dependence of local communities on wild habitats, IFAW-WTI, in association with the Bodoland Territorial Council and the Assam Forest Department, yesterday commenced a handloom textiles skill development training for Bodo women under […] Read more »
WTI and Odisha Government Hold Inter-sectoral Meeting for OSCOW-MAP
As part of the process of preparing the Odisha State Comprehensive Wildlife Management Plan (OSCOW-MAP), an inter-sectoral meeting was held on August 20 between the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and relevant departments of the Odisha government Read more »
North Bank MVS Helps Forest Department Reunite Rescued Elephant Calf with Mother
The calf and its mother seen together in the distance after they were successfully reunited Dejoo Tea Estate, Assam, August 22, 2016: Working with the North Bank unit of IFAW-WTI’s Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS), frontline staff of the Assam Forest Department rescued an Asian elephant calf at the Dejoo Tea […] Read more »
It was one of the happiest moments of my life: the sight of a tiny serpent head peeping out from a cracked eggshell in the makeshift incubation crate we had created for its giant mother and all her eggs. Read more »
