Tata Chemicals Limited pledges Rs 20 million for whale shark & coral conservation |
Tiger in the well !! |
2008 IUCN Red List surprise: Greater one-horned rhinos 'not' endangered
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 Ahmedabad (Gujarat), November 17, 2008: Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL), the Gujarat Forest Department and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) today joined hands to start a pioneering conservation project on whale shark and coral reefs.
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Tezpur (Assam), October 31, 2008: Wednesday began as a normal day for us at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation & Conservation (CWRC) run by International Fund for Animal Welfare- Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI).
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Delhi, October 22, 2008: The greater one-horned rhinoceros is no longer 'endangered', according to the 2008 IUCN Red List update.
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 WTI-IFAW recommended Kashmir Pashmina GI awarded
Delhi, September 18, 2008: Ending two years of litigation the Kashmir Handmade Pashmina Promotion Trust (KHPPT) and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) on the one hand, and the Crafts Development Institute and the Tahafuz, on the other, resolved their differences leading to the award of Geographical Indications of Goods patent to Kashmir Pashmina.
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 Wildlife crime prevention training organised in Leh
Leh (J & K), November 13, 2008: The Department of Wildlife Protection, Government of Jammu & Kashmir, Care for the Wild, UK, and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) jointly organised a three-day wildlife crime prevention training programme for the frontline field staff of Leh and Kargil wildlife divisions in Leh, last week.
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 eBay announces ivory ban in wake of IFAW report
San Francisco (California), October 20, 2008: The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) applauds eBay’s decision to institute a global ban on the sale of elephant ivory products by 1 January 2009 and calls on all other internet traders to follow their example.
eBay’s decision was announced just hours before the release of IFAW’s latest investigative report ...
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 Czech convict jumps bail, escapes from India
Darjeeling (West Bengal), October 30, 2008: Emil Kucera, one of the two Czech nationals convicted in a case of biopiracy in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, less than two months ago, has jumped bail and fled from India.
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 CITES-approved ivory sale begins
Namibia, October 29, 2008: The controversial auction of stockpiled ivory from four African nations allowed by the 14th CoP of CITES began yesterday. About 7 tonnes of raw African elephant tusks as well as carved ivory from Namibia were sold to bidders Japan and China.
The ongoing one-off sale of about 108 tonnes of ivory by Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa is the second, since the 1989 international ban on trade in elephant parts.
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 20 get three years imprisonment for hunting Asiatic lions
Junagadh (Gujarat), October 23, 2008: Twenty persons were convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Gujarat court today, for poaching endangered Asiatic lions in Gir National Park in March last year.
The Court of PK Makwana, I class magistrate, Junagadh, announced the sentence which also included a fine of Rs 10,000 each.
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 IFAW Animal Action Week reaches a million in India
New Delhi, October 14, 2008: At least a million students from 2000 schools in India are expected to participate in this year's IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) Animal Action Week (AAW) with the theme "Beneath the Waves – Protecting Marine Wildlife". Organised by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), IFAW's partner in India, the AAW this year aims to educate, sensitise and raise awareness of children on marine wildlife and their habitat, and threats faced by them.
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 Taming traffic in
Bandipur National Park
Bandipur (Karnataka), October 16, 2008: Wild animals trying to cross the road or carcasses of those killed while attempting it, are a common sight for travelers on a 12.5 km stretch within Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, along the Mysore to Ooty state highway. This highway, about 5.5 metres wide, is one of many metalled roads that dissect and fragment the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve of which Bandipur NP is a part.
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 Train accident prevention project gathers momentum in Assam following death of an elephant
Guwahati (Assam), October 17, 2008: A recently-initiated project to 'mitigate elephant mortality due to train accidents' in Assam looks likely to be sped up following the death of a pregnant feral elephant, hit by a goods train, just outside Guwahati, along the track connecting Azara to Kamakhya, yesterday.
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 Wildlife traders held in Bijnor, UP
Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh), October 14, 2008: Three wildlife traders were arrested from Chandpur Village in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday, when they unwittingly attempted to sell ivory and elephant molar teeth to a decoy customer. Two molar teeth weighing five kilogrammes each were seized from them in the undercover operation, jointly implemented by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UPSTF), the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI).
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 Penguins flown South for record-breaking release to the wild in Brazil
Rio Grande (Brazil), October 6, 2008 – Close to 400 rescued penguins took to the skies on a C-130 Hercules military aircraft bound for Pelotas, in southern Brazil where they were released back to their ocean home. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) assisted the Instituto Mamíferos Aquáticos (IMA) and Brazilian officials to save hundreds of juvenile Magellanic penguins...
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 4 sloth bears readied for Indian Kalandar market seized in Nepal
Delhi, September 17, 2008: Four sloth bears including a cub were rescued by authorities in Lahan in the southeastern Sirhaha district in Nepal, last week, acting on the information provided by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). Three of the four bears were adults trained as dancing bears to be sold to Kalandars in India.
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 800 openbill storks die in Assam as nesting tree collapses
Shilonijan (Assam), September 18, 2008: In a freak accident, more than 800 Asian openbill storks, mostly chicks and juveniles, were killed as the banyan tree on which they were nesting collapsed on Monday night.
Sixty-one birds which survived were brought to IFAW-WTI run Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation on Tuesday from Shilonijan in Karbi Anglong Autonomous District, where the incident happened.
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 WTI tip-off leads to arrest of wildlife traders
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), August 26, 2008: In a major undercover investigative operation, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP-STF) and UP Forest Department, on a tip-off from the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), arrested two experienced wildlife traders in Meerut yesterday.
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 Todas for Tigers
Nilgiris (Tamil Nadu), August 1, 2008: In contrast to the disappointing decline in India’s overall tiger population revealed in the latest census, tiger numbers in Tamil Nadu’s protected areas have shown a promising increase since 2002. An increase in tiger population was also seen in the non-protected areas of the state, including the upper Nilgiri plateau, home to the indigenous Toda community. The Todas’ survival is closely interlinked with their natural surroundings. Read More |
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 A Kalandar’s life beyond the bear
Nawada (Bihar), June 13, 2008: Mohammad Sovrati returns to his rented apartment late in the evening, tired but satisfied, after a hard day of ferrying load in his new carrier rickshaw. He had bought it a few months ago with funds from an alternative livelihood package made available to Kalandars like him under the Integrated Sloth Bear Conservation and Welfare Project (ISBCWP).
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