Garo Green Spine Project stakeholders conduct Cleanliness Drive on World Soil Day
Garo, Meghalaya, 24 December 2020 Wildlife Trust of India with the support of HCL Foundation in collaboration with the Garo Student Union (GSU), Southern Zone celebrated World Soil Day on the 5th of December 2020. On this day, a cleanliness drive was held in a stretch of six kilometres inside […] Read more »
Elephant Cup Football tournament held during Solung Festival, Arunachal
Namsing, Arunachal, 17 December 2020: Wildlife Trust of India with the support of the World Land Trust recently organized a football tournament during the Solung festival as a D’ering –Dibru Saikhowa Elephant Link Project people participation activity. The Solung festival observed in Arunachal Pradesh during the first week of September […] Read more »
Right of Passage: Elephant Corridors of India [2nd Edition]
This Conservation Reference Series publication brings together, in its second edition, a comprehensive listing of India’s 101 elephant corridors as listed and mapped by elephant experts in consultation with all state forest departments that are part of the elephant range in the country. Securing these corridors so that elephants and […] Read more »
Raipur, Chattisgarh, July 18, 2019 : Owing to increased instances of human-elephant conflict, the Ministry of Environment Forests & Climate Change (MoEFCC) in the 14th Steering Committee Meeting of the Project Elephant Division last year, had decided to hold four regional workshops on “Right of Passage to Elephants to mitigate […] Read more »
India has by far the largest number of wild Asian elephants in the world, estimated at 27,312 according to the 2017 census, about 55% of the species’ global population. Despite the animal being listed as endangered by IUCN, most Indians are aware of the animal and that is a reflection […] Read more »
Wildlife Week Celebration near “First Addition” to Manas National Park
As a part of the celebratory events held during Wildlife Week across the nation by Wildlife Trust of India, the first addition to Manas National Park marked its first wildlife week celebration. Facilitated by IFAW and WTI, the celebrations took place in Bishnupur, a village near the First Addition to Manas National Park. Read more »
Darjeeling, West Bengal, April 22, 2018: The second regional technical workshop on the conservation and management of elephant landscapes, focused on North-East India, was held in Darjeeling on April 20 and 21. Read more »
IN MEMORIAM: Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Conservation Legend
April 14, 2018: It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick, legendary elephant conservationist and founder of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Read more »
Found Alone in East Karbi Anglong, Male Elephant Calf Admitted to CWRC
CWRC, Assam, March 27, 2018: A male elephant calf, about five to six months old, was admitted to CWRC on March 23 after it was discovered alone near Lahorijan in the Karbi Anglong district of Assam. Read more »
Manas National Park, Assam, March 21, 2018: Six orphaned female elephant calves that had been hand-raised at CWRC; the wildlife rescue, treatment and rehabilitation facility jointly run by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the Assam Forest Department near Kaziranga National Park – have been translocated to Manas National Park, where they will be acclimatised and eventually rehabilitated back to the wild. . Read more »
