Fishermen rescue whale shark – promise to follow Bapu’s path
Sutrapada: Fishermen have freed a 30-feet-long whale shark trapped in their nets on Monday off the coast of Sutrapada in the Western Indian state of Gujarat. Read more »
Fishermen rescue whale shark – promise to follow Bapu’s path
Sutrapada: Fishermen have freed a 30-feet-long whale shark trapped in their nets on Monday off the coast of Sutrapada in the Western Indian state of Gujarat. Read more »
Hand-raised elephants will return to wild
Kaziranga: WTI (Wildlife Trust of India) and IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) will move six hand-raised elephant calves today from the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in Kaziranga to Doimari in Manas National Park. Read more »
Siberian tigers driven out of forests
New Delhi: Five deaths of the critically endangered Siberian tiger in recent months have raised concern among conservationists battling to protect their population in the Russian Far East. Read more »
Villagers give up more land for wildlife in Meghalaya
Tura (Meghalaya): Residents of Selbalgre, a village in the West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, have set aside an additional hundred hectares of land for the conservation of the Hoolock gibbon. The land was handed over to the executive committee of the Selbalgre Village Reserve Forest comprising of the villagers and the […] Read more »
Veraval, Gujarat: Fishermen have released another whale shark from their nets – this time off the coast of Veraval, where about 30 people took their turn in a rescue operation which lasted for more than three hours. Read more »
Government acts on WTI-IFAW study, Creates Greater Manas
Udalguri, Assam: Manas National Park, a UN World Heritage Site, plagued by militancy for over a decade, got a fresh lease of life as the local tribal government effectively trebled the area under it, calling it Greater Manas. Read more »
WTI information leads to Ivory traders’ arrest in Orissa
Keonjhar (Orissa): Based on the information provided by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), four persons were arrested last Friday, March 7, while trying to sell elephant tusks to decoy customers in Haridagoth, a town near Keonjhar, Orissa. Two tusks weighing about 10 kg and illegal arms were seized from the […] Read more »
Veraval, Gujarat: Fishermen have released another whale shark from their nets – this time off the coast of Veraval, where about 30 people took their turn in a rescue operation which lasted for more than three hours. Read more »
Bear cub rescued – mama killed
Kaziranga: Villagers in Khsiapung village have handed over an infant bear cub to a local NGO after her mother was brutally killed by poachers in Karbi Anglong district in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam. Read more »
IFAW helps animals in flood ravaged Indonesia
Yarmouth Port, Mass: After suffering the worst flood in its modern history, Jakarta is now busy trying to recover from the devastation. The floods began in early February and, at one point, covered 80% of Indonesia’s capital. Thousands of people fled the rising waters and many animals were left to […] Read more »