Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, April 17, 2018: “Living with the Wild”, a Conservation Action Report based on the work jointly undertaken by the UP Forest Department and WTI in the Dudhwa-Pilibhit landscape, was released by Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya, Deputy Chief Minister, Govt. of UP Read more »
Living with the Wild: Mitigating Conflict between Humans and Big Cat Species in Uttar Pradesh
This Conservation Action Series report outlines a holistic model of conflict mitigation that evolved under Wildlife Trust of India’s Uttar Pradesh Big Cat Conflict Mitigation Project (now the Terai Tiger Project), run in partnership with the state forest department. The field tested approach thus developed involves a sustained process of […] Read more »
BVIEER, Pune; January 6, 2017: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) has launched a Conservation Action Series publication titled ‘A Dance to Forget: The Story of the Eradication of Sloth Bear Dancing from India’. Read more »
A Dance to Forget: The Story of the Eradication of Sloth Bear Dancing from India
A comprehensive Conservation Action Series report on the 2005 project by WTI and the World Society for Protection of Animals, UK to eradicate the medieval practice of bear dancing from India, by rehabilitating and providing alternative livelihoods to the Kalandar community. Read more »
Tiger Country: Helping Save Bhutan’s Natural Heritage
A Conservation Action Series report on four years of work by IFAW-WTI in partnership with the Government of Bhutan, training forest guards, customs and enforcement personnel, and assisting the Bhutanese forest department in taking action to save local wildlife in distress. Read more »
Gujarat’s Gentle Giant: Conservation of Whale Shark (Rhincodon Typus)
This Conservation Action Series report documents the Whale Shark Conservation Project by WTI, Tata Chemicals Limited and the Gujarat Forest Department, which turned Gujarat’s whale shark hunters into its protectors. The species’ ecological requirements, scientific studies undertaken as part of the project, the pioneering self documentation scheme for whale shark […] Read more »
Daring to Restore: Coral Reef Recovery in Mithapur
This Conservation Action Series report documents the Mithapur Coral Reef Recovery Project, launched in 2008 by WTI, Tata Chemicals Ltd and the Gujarat Forest Department. The project includes a first-of-its-kind transplantation of coral species (Acropora humilis) from Lakshwadeep to Mithapur, where they were locally extinct. Read more »
Mountain Migrants: A Survey of the Tibetan Antelope and Wild Yak in Ladakh
This Conservation Action Series report documents a joint survey undertaken primarily by the Department of Wildlife Protection, Jammu and Kashmir and the Wildlife Trust of India, of the Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) and wild yak (Bos grunniens) in Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, India. Read more »
Turning the Tide: The Campaign to save the whale shark in Gujarat
At the turn of the century, the world’s largest fish, the whale shark, was being slaughtered commercially in large numbers along the coast of Gujarat. The Whale Shark Conservation Project by WTI, Tata Chemicals Limited and the Gujarat Forest Department has turned Gujarat’s whale shark hunters into its protectors. This […] Read more »
Walking the Bears: Rehabilitation of Asiatic Black Bears in Arunachal
This Conservation Action Report documents the Asiatic Black bear Rehabilitation Project initiated jointly by the Wildlife Trust of India and the Department of Environment and Forests, Arunachal Pradesh, in partnership with the International Fund for Animal Welfare in 2003. This was the first instance of bear rehabilitation being taken up […] Read more »
