Rehabilitating hand-raised elephant calves in Manas National Park |
 Manas National Park (Assam) April 21: Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) along with its partner the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Assam forest department has rescued and rehabilitated 13 abandoned elephant calves in Assam. Five of these were reunited with their natal herds almost immediately after their rescue. The remaining, classified as permanently displaced animals (PDA) were hand-raised by trained wildlife veterinarians and keepers in the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) based near Kaziranga National Park before being relocated and released in Manas National Park. Read More
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 Government acts on WTI-IFAW study, Creates Greater Manas
Udalguri, Assam, March 5: Manas National Park, a UN World Heritage Site, plagued by militancy for over a decade, got a fresh lease of life as the local tribal government effectively trebled the area under it, calling it Greater Manas. Located in India's north-eastern Assam state, Manas is considered one of world's richest bio-diversity hotspots, contiguous with the forests of Bhutan. Home to tigers and elephants it is also a designated Project Tiger reserve. Read More
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 Spark of hope for farmers in Assam: Conflict prevention through electric fencing
Kuthori (Assam), April 17: An electric fence along the border of Kuthori Village in Assam has successfully reduced instances of crop raiding by wild animals from the adjacent Kaziranga National Park, allowing the villagers to resume cultivation after a hiatus of over three years.
In 2003, cultivation was abandoned by the predominantly farming community of Kuthori after incurring heavy losses for six years due to crop destruction by wild animals. Crop damage was more intense during the dry seasons, when the resources, also spent on irrigation made the loss even dearer. Read more |
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‘Vanvaas - A year in the Silent Valley’, photo exhibition by NP Jayan begins
New Delhi, April, 2008: An exhibition of wildlife photographs taken by the award-winning photographer NP Jayan during his year-long photo-expedition in the Silent Valley national park began yesterday at the Travancore Art Gallery in the Capital. Titled ‘Vanvaas – A year in the Silent Valley’, the exhibition is the first of the kind by the photographer, who spent the year 2007 in the national park, armed only with his camera and accompanied by Mari, a forest watcher. Twenty percent of the proceeds from the exhibition will be channelised for the welfare of the Silent Valley forest watchers through the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), a sponsor of Jayan’s project. Read more... |
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 Saving lives in Poonch –RAP to reduce human-wildlife conflict
Poonch (Jammu & Kashmir), April 10:Human-wildlife conflicts have been significantly reduced in Poonch, a remote district in the northern state of Jammu & Kashmir in India, following the activities undertaken by Dr Shahid Iqbal, an IFS officer, under a Rapid Action Project (RAP) funded by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). Using a multi-pronged approach involving the participation of local villagers in conservation, equipping the forest department and increasing the intelligence outreach, the project has, within a few months of its implementation, succeeded in preventing a number of conflicts with the Asiatic black bear among others. Read More |
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 Five orphaned bears get a new life in Russia;
satellite tracking will monitor survival
Bubonitsy (Tver Region, Russia), April 09: Today, in the forest of the Tver region of Russia, researchers from IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) and veterinarians from the Moscow Zoo returned five orphaned bear cubs to the wild. Prior to the release, the team performed veterinary checks and tagged the bears for monitoring. One of these bears will be monitored using a satellite collar, a step forward in evaluating post-release behavior and survival of the bear cubs orphaned by the cruel winter den hunt in Russia. Read more
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 Breaking the fall - conserving Openbill storks in Arrearjhar, Assam
Arrearjhar (Assam), April 04: As the monsoon ends, the few hundred Openbill stork nests on the canopy of the sal trees of Arrearjhar area near Chakrashila Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam come alive with new hatchlings. However, the change in the rain pattern and extremities of weather recorded last year deceived the birds into laying their eggs at a wrong time resulting in the hatchlings emerging under unfavourable conditions, drastically increasing their mortality. Following a heavy downpour on October 7 last year, more than 50 dead chicks and some damaged eggs were reported. The predominant reason for the death of chicks was the fall and the resultant trauma. Lack of care for the injured chicks, predation by stray dogs and opportunistic hunting were other reasons.Read More |
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EMERGENCY RELIEF NETWORK
 To strengthen and streamline wildlife rehabilitation efforts in the country, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) & International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has launched its new “IFAW-WTI Emergency Relief Network” (ERN), an association of wildlife rehabilitators in India.
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