Rescued rhinos return to repopulate the wild in Manas after recovery under human care
Kaziranga (Assam): Two rescued rhinos – Maju and Raja, are on their way back to the wild in northeast India, after recovery under the care of the Assam Forest Department (AFD) and International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI). Covering a 450-km long journey from one […] Read more »
Deathly strokes threaten mongoose: Paint brushes for export abroad seized in Kolkata
New Delhi: ‘Think before you act’. As children, many of us learnt this moral through the popular fable – The Mongoose and The Farmer’s Wife. Now, the mongoose needs us to think and to act; and fast, before it is ‘painted’ out. Thousands of individuals are believed killed annually in […] Read more »
Researcher adds 38 new butterfly species to Dudhwa TR baseline
Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (Uttar Pradesh): A researcher with the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has identified 81 butterfly species in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Uttar Pradesh, adding 38 new species to the previous record of 43 species (http://www.dudhwatigerreserve.com/butterflies.html). “The diversity of life is the most striking aspect of our planet, and […] Read more »
Six hand-reared bear cubs to be rehabilitated in Mehao
Roing (Arunachal Pradesh), September 19 2013: Four displaced Asiatic black bear cubs are on their way back to the wild in Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary, after months of care at the Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation (CBRC) at Pakke Tiger Reserve. At Mehao, they will join two other cubs that are currently […] Read more »
At home in the wild: Rehabilitated bear spotted healthy and safe
Pakke Tiger Reserve (Arunachal Pradesh): IFAW-WTI’s Asiatic black bear rehabilitation programme in north-east India recorded yet another success as a hand-raised two-year-old, one of the five released in June 2011, was found ‘at home’ in the wild. The sub-adult was tracked in the Khari area of Pakke TR in Arunachal […] Read more »
Stars to get the homecoming they deserve
Chennai: About 500 Indian star tortoises, repatriated from Malaysia, were moved to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai yesterday for appropriate care and eventual rehabilitation into the wild. The smuggled tortoises were returned to the country by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), after they were confiscated by authorities […] Read more »
Leopard skin and body parts seized in Himachal
Shimla: Three suspected wildlife traders were nabbed and booked under various sections of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 in Chaupal (Himachal Pradesh) on Friday for possessing wildlife goods including one leopard skin, two leopard skulls, about 11 kgs of leopard bones, 13 leopard claws and seven canines. Read more »
Attempt to reunite tiger cub with mother in Kaziranga
Kaziranga NP (Assam): Attempt to re-unite a month-old female tiger cub with her mother is in progress today in the Burapahar range of Kaziranga National Park, by the Assam Forest Department assisted by International Fund for Animal Welfare – Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI). The cub was found alone by […] Read more »
New Delhi: In Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, Mowgli was adopted and raised by a pack of wolves. They helped him survive in the jungles of India and protected him from harm. Now in the Indian jungles, the wolf struggles for survival, threatened by people, and yet, with people as the […] Read more »
Golden langur conservation awareness in Manas
Kokrajhar (Assam, Manas): Celebrating the World Wildlife Week, locals in Manas in the northeast Indian state of Assam joined the Bodoland Territorial Council, Assam Forest Department and IFAW-WTI in an urgent campaign to save the golden langur – an endangered primate found in forests along the Indo-Bhutan border in Assam. […] Read more »
