When Assam Floods displace animals, humans step in to help
Kaziranga, August 23, 2019: Almost a month after the flood waters submerged 95 percent of Kaziranga National Park, the wildlife rescue centre we run near this UNESCO World Heritage Site has five new resident rhino calves. Rescued under various situations from swirling floodwaters or separated from their mothers, the rhino […] 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 »
CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, January 6, 2018: Three female rhino calves that were rescued during the devastating monsoon floods that hit Kaziranga in 2016 and subsequently hand-raised at CWRC, were translocated this morning to Manas for eventual rehabilitation into the wild. Read more »
Meet Ganga’s Grandson, the Latest Rhino Calf Born in Manas National Park
Manas National Park, Assam, November 16, 2017: The first calf born to Ganga, one of the rhinos rehabilitated into Manas National Park under IFAW-WTI and the Assam Forest Department’s Greater Manas Recovery Project, was sighted with her own firstborn, a male, at 8.30am today. Ganga was rescued in Kaziranga in […] Read more »
Manas National Park, Assam, September 3, 2017: ‘Jamuna’, a female rhino that had been rehabilitated into the wild by IFAW-WTI in 2010, has given birth to her second calf in Manas this morning. Read more »
Haladhibari Rhino Calf Rescue (Kaziranga Floods 2017)
A rhino calf, barely a week old, was rescued from floodwaters in Kaziranga National Park by an IFAW-WTI Mobile Veterinary Service unit and brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) for treatment and long-term care. The calf was found in a severely stressed condition, having been separated […] Read more »
Kaziranga Floods: CWRC MVS Team Rescues Another Rhino Calf
CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, August 19, 2017: A CWRC MVS unit rescued a female rhino calf, approximately six to seven months old, from the Harmoti area of Kaziranga’s Bagori Range on August 17. Read more »
Kaziranga Floods: Another Displaced Rhino Calf Rescued and Admitted to CWRC
CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, August 14, 2017: Working in concert with a Kaziranga Forest Rescue unit, a CWRC Mobile Veterinary Service (MVS) team rescued a stranded female rhino calf from Na Jan, a flood affected village near the Bagori Range earlier today. Read more »
Four Displaced Rhino Calves Rescued from Floodwaters in Kaziranga and Brought to CWRC
CWRC, Kaziranga National Park, August 13, 2017: Four rhino calves were rescued today and brought to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) as a second and more devastating wave of monsoon floods hit the iconic Kaziranga National Park. Read more »
Displaced by Floodwaters in Kaziranga, Rhino Calf Brought to CWRC
CWRC, Assam, July 13, 2017: A male rhinoceros calf displaced by the monsoon floods was rescued by forest department staff and brought by a Mobile Veterinary Service team to CWRC for treatment and long-term care this afternoon. Read more »
