WTI and UP Forest Department Rescue Tiger from Abandoned Rubber Factory in Bareilly
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, May 04, 2018: A young male tiger that had taken refuge inside an abandoned rubber factory in Bareilly was captured yesterday by members of WTI's Rapid Response Team, working in concert with personnel from the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department. Read more »
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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 »
Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Uttar Pradesh, April 13, 2018: A young adult tigress involved in a conflict situation was rescued from an aggressive mob of over two thousand people earlier today, in Sahatepurva village, Nighasan, in the North Kheri Forest Division of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve. Read more »
WTI Assists UP Forest Department in Releasing Conflict Tiger Back into the Wild
Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, March 9, 2018: A young male tiger that had been captured by the UP Forest Department four days ago was released back into the wild this morning, in an operation orchestrated by the forest department with the assistance of WTI and WWF-India. Read more »
From Gondia to Bandipur to Similipal to New Delhi, WTI Celebrates Global Tiger Day with Children
Preserving tiger habitats in Manas Tiger Reserve, Assam, and Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar. Conducting Anti-snare Walks in Bandipur and Nagarhole Tiger Reserves, Karnataka. Mitigating human-tiger conflict in the Terai landscape of Uttar Pradesh, in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, and through a Rapid Action Project in the Sundarbans, West Bengal. […] Read more »
WTI Rapid Response Team Rescues Conflict Leopard in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Sultanpur Forest Division, Uttar Pradesh, May 30, 2017: A Rapid Response Team established under WTI's Terai Tiger Project yesterday assisted the UP Forest Department in tranquilising and capturing a male leopard that had strayed into a house in Bhelara village, Kadipur Range, Sultanpur Forest Division. Read more »
First-hand Account: Capturing the Man-eater of Pilibhit
Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, February 20, 2017: Nine days ago, a WTI Rapid Response Team assisted the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department in tranquilising and capturing a tiger that was declared a man-eater after having killed multiple people in the fringe areas of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. Read more »
A multi-pronged approach to mitigating conflict between humans and big cat species in and around Dudhwa and Pilibhit Tiger Reserves, including the promotion of community participation in conflict mitigation. Read more »
Late last month a WTI team successfully tranquilised and captured a male tiger, a designated man-eater who would otherwise have been put down. A first-person account of that entire operation by one of our intrepid men on the ground, Achintya Tripathi Read more »
