Japan’s biggest ivory smuggler walks free, government schemes to market his contraband
Tokyo: A Japanese court let go the country’s worst ivory smuggler with a most lenient penalty, while officials at the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry scheme to market his three tons of contraband into legal trade. Japan’s press reported yesterday that an unidentified "company president" who attempted to […] Read more »
Pobitora flooded: WTI sends life jackets for the patrolling staff
Pobitora (Assam):Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, which has the highest concentration of highly endangered Greater one horned rhinocerous, has been completely submerged by the current flood in the north-east Indian Assam state. The sanctuary has at least 70 rhinos in just over 20 sq kilometres of land. Read more »
Eight RAPs sanctioned in January
) The District Forest Officer (DFO) at Haridwar in Uttaranchal State, is facing an acute shortage of funds in the wake of the formation of the new State, and needs financial support to maintain the effectiveness of anti-poaching and patrolling operations. WTI will part-finance the fuel and other running costs […] Read more »
Landmark insurance scheme for frontline forest guards
New Delhi: On March 30, the Wildlife Trust of India launched a scheme of supplementary accident introduced of Protected Area staff, as part of its Van Rakshak Project. This landmark scheme brings all the field staff of the forest departments, working on wildlife duties in Protected Areas, under a single […] Read more »
Nepalese colonel charged with poaching
Nepal: The Chitwan District Forest Office (DFO) on March 9 arrested Royal Nepal Army (RNA) Colonel Dilip Shumsher Rana on a charge of having shot a barking deer in the Royal Chitwan National Park. But when Park security guards approached him, he resisted and instead threatened to shoot them too. […] Read more »
Corbett officials tense, as poachers still at large
New Delhi: Corbett National Park has reopened, tourists are going in again, and a calm of sorts prevails. Underneath the calm, tension among Park managers is palpable, because expert tribals believed to be from North Eastern India and adept at this method of killing, may not have vanished. One theory […] Read more »
Ambulance for the Rehabilitation & Relocation Centre, Assam
New Delhi: A mobile wild animal clinic cum ambulance, purchased with a grant from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, is being used for WTI’s WILD RESCUE programme in Assam. While the rescue centre is being built, the ambulance caters to the Kaziranga National Park to […] Read more »
WTI sends emergency aid to Corbett Park to thwart poachers
New Delhi: To boost the morale of forest guards chasing a set of determined poachers who have already killed five tuskers in the core area of the Corbett tiger reserve, the Wildlife Trust of India has dispatched 130 sets of warm jackets, sleeping bags, and rucksacks. Additionally, WTI has also […] Read more »
Barking Deer injured by street dogs under treatment at Pobitara
Pobitara: On February 6, 2001 a sub-adult female Barking Deer, that had been confiscated from the Nagaon area and handed over to the Pobitara Wildlife Sanctuary Range Officer Mr Mrigen Barua, was badly bitten and injured by street dogs at the Range Office itself. With bite marks at 13 places […] Read more »
Slow Loris rescued from trader and released in Pobitara
Guwahati: A sub-adult male Slow Loris was bought from the local market of Haflong in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, from a trader and brought to Dr Bhaskar Chaudhary, WTI’s Guwahati-based veterinarian, on January 15, 2001. It was in perfect health when brought to him. Dr Chaudhary, with the […] Read more »
