WTI Holds Training Workshops for Frontline Staff, PRTs in Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary
Maharashtra, March 2, 2018: In partnership with the Maharashtra Forest Department and the Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund (JTEF), WTI recently organised two training workshops to mitigate human-tiger conflict around Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary Read more »
Community-oriented Conservation in Focus as UNEP Team Visits WTI Project Site in Maharashtra
Gothangaon, Maharashtra, February 22, 2018: A team from UNEP, led by its Executive Director Erik Solheim and Country Head (India) Atul Bagai, accompanied WTI Executive Director & CEO Vivek Menon to Gothangaon, a village near Maharashtra’s Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary yesterday afternoon. Read more »
By Nikhil Dandekar Read more »
Highlights of our new and continued conservation action initiatives in 2017 Read more »
The Unexpected Guest: When a Tiger Visited a Village in Tumsar
On December 22, 2017, members of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) of Wildlife Trust of India’s Vidarbha Tiger Project assisted Maharashtra Forest Department and Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) personnel in tranquilising and capturing a male tiger that ventured into a village in the Tumsar region of Vidarbha. Read more »
Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala, December 21, 2017: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), with support from the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF), has partnered with a team of engineering students from Amal Jyothi College, Kerala, to create an innovative conflict mitigation tool in the form of a mobile app. Read more »
By Dr Samir Kr Sinha Read more »
Length of Skin, Weight of Bones
by Jose Louies 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 »
300 Students Plant Saplings in the Elephant Corridor Village Ram Terang and Village Relocation Site
Plantation of saplings by students and villagers on the occasion of World Environment Day Ram Terang, Assam, June 5, 2015: More than 300 students planted saplings in the Ram Terang village and the site where the village would soon be relocated. The families living in the village voluntarily decided to […] Read more »
