Arambada Lake: India’s Jellyfish Lake
Armabada, July 15, 2014: Read and discover the secrets of a 'lake' with WTI officer S Goutham, as he dives and finds an entire carpet of jellyfish at the lake bed in Gujarat! Read more »
Arambada Lake: India’s Jellyfish Lake
Armabada, July 15, 2014: Read and discover the secrets of a 'lake' with WTI officer S Goutham, as he dives and finds an entire carpet of jellyfish at the lake bed in Gujarat! Read more »
WLT and WTI support the first phase of relocation in Sunderkhal
Haldwani, Sept 10, 2014: World Land Trust (WLT) and WTI are supporting the first phase of relocation, which concentrates on the voluntary relocation of around 50 families from the Panod section of Sunderkhal (Chilkiya-Kota) corridor. Read more »
Pakke, July 16, 2014: Our vet Dr Jahan Ahmed based at the Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation (CBRC) in Pakke, Arunachal Pradesh, played mid-wife and facilitated birth of five beautiful copper-headed trinket snakes. Read more »
Elephant calf ‘rescued’ from Manas; being hand-raised in CWRC
Kaziranga, September 15 2014: The International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI) team recently 'rescued' a male elephant calf from Uttarkochi in Baksa District of Assam. Read more »
Dia Mirza launches Vivek Menon’s ‘Indian Mammals’ in Mumbai
Mumbai, July 19, 2014: Coming out in support of India's wildlife, the popular Bollywood celebrity Dia Mirza yesterday launched 'Indian Mammals - A field guide' by Vivek Menon, Executive Director of Wildlife Trust of India. Read more »
WTI trains and equips frontline forest staff of Achanakmar Tiger Reserve
Achanakmar Tiger Reserve, (Chhattisgarh), July 24, 2014: WTI recently trained and equipped 55 frontline forest staff deputed to protect Achanakmar Tiger Reserve over a period of three days. Read more »
Safeguarding health of India’s tiger guardians
Achanakmar TR (Chhattisgarh), July 24, 2014: To safeguard the health of frontline staff deployed to protect and save wild tigers in the TR, (IFAW-WTI) in consultation with the FD have provided 21 sets of water purifiers, pressure cookers and torches. Read more »
Elephant Award given to eight students in Karbi Anglong
Karbi Anglong (Assam), July 25, 2014: Wildlife Trust of India awarded their annual Elephant Award 2014, to eight candidates who successfully completed their High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) in the village of Sar Kro earlier this month. Read more »
Six hand raised Asiatic black bear cubs released back to the wild by IFAW-WTI in Arunachal Pradesh
Roing (Arunachal Pradesh), August 3, 2014: Six Asiatic black bear cubs, hand-reared by IFAW-WTI team, were released back to the wild in Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary. One of the cubs was radio-collared yesterday, to facilitate post-release monitoring. Read more »
Not easy finding an elephant family in the wild
Manas, August 8, 2014: All of our rehabilitated ele calves in Manas NP are doing well, still fervently looking for wild herds to take them in. Here’s an account by our field biologist Anjan Sangma of a recent incident where two had to be re-rescued. Read more »