News about India
Conservation projects news from the World Land Trust. These posts relate to WLT projects in India.
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20 March 2013Camera-traps have recorded three healthy adult tigers in Kerala, in a wildlife corridor funded by World Land Trust (WLT), IUCN-Netherlands and Elephant Family. The pictures are...
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28 February 2013If you want to see wildlife, then you must explore a forest on foot, and quietly. And that is exactly what Richard Bence did on a recent trip to the Western Ghat mountains in Keral...
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18 February 2013World Land Trust (WLT) is focusing efforts on securing an elephant corridor on land adjoining the eastern boundary of Corbett National Park in northern India. To achieve this, Wild...
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17 December 2012World Land Trust supporter Jessica McConnell went on a life-changing trip to the Tirunelli-Kudrakote elephant corridor in Kerala, southern India. She visited Cheakady, a new villag...
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27 September 2012World Land Trust (WLT) is helping to address the escalating conflict between people and tigers in India to save the lives of both In the first six months of 2012, India has lost 4...
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21 September 2012Author Nicola Davies writes about her experience visiting a conservation project in India supported by World Land Trust (WLT). I’ve been a supporter of WLT for more years...
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07 October 2011The World Land Trust (WLT) unites fashion and conservation for the fund-raising project Emeralds for Elephants India 2011, working together for social and environmental success On...
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21 July 2011Narayan Jewellers Zambian emerald ring, one of the pieces which will be auctioned in October.The World Land Trust (WLT) and ethical coloured gemstones mining company, Gemfields, to...
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12 May 2011The birth of an elephant is one more example of why protecting wildlife corridors is so importantA young elephant with its family in Corbett National Park. The elephants from the c...
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05 May 2011Adventures in India led World Land Trust supporters to learn more about the struggle to save the Asian Elephant. Read their story in the May issue of Suffolk magazineWild Elephants...
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23 March 2011The World Land Trust (WLT) invites partner organisation the Wildlife Trust of India on a study tour to the UK and Paraguay to share conservation knowledge and experienceAfter...
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28 January 2011Saving lives through the success of the Indian Elephant Corridors appeal by the World Land Trust (WLT)The creation of Elephant Corridors ensures that both the Elephants and the vil...
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01 October 2010The Karnataka Forest Department in India recently announced a plan to purchase a large section of privately owned land, which will secure wildlife corridors for elephants in this s...
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29 June 2010In April, World Land Trust (WLT) Project Partner Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) convened a ground breaking meeting of conservation experts, forest authorities and conservation organ...
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24 May 2010Limited edition Friendship bracelets containing Swarovski pearls. Purchasing one of these bracelets will help raise funds for WLT's Indian Elephant Corridor Appeal......as will...
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17 April 2009Wildlife corridors protecting elephant migratory routesThe survival of Asian Elephants is threatened by loss of forest habitat and the ever-increasing human population. World Land...
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10 February 2009Would you like to see some of the areas where the World Land Trust and its partners are working? Then join this tour, led by long-term WLT supporter, Dan Freeman. Photos: © Ad...
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23 April 2008India is home to 60% of the remaining Asian elephant populations, making their survival in India critical to the survival of the whole species. It is for this very reason that the...
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07 April 2008A round-up of last year's activities by World Land Trust (in the UK and USA) in our conservation project areas around the world. Brazil Partner organisation: REGUA Land Pu...
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31 January 2008In a remote part of Meghalaya in north-east India, threatened Asian elephants are now being protected by the newly declared Siju-Aretika Village Reserve. The legal declarati...
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14 December 2007Common Langur (Semnopithecus entellus) Kirsty Burgess, WLT Conservation Programmes Manager, recently made a site visit to the Tirunelli-Kudrakote Elephant Corridor which is i...
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04 September 2007Willow elephants 'wandering' through Hyde Park to raise awareness of the threats facing the elephants in India. Today saw the launch of "Trunks meet Trunks"...
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03 August 2007Stripe-necked Mongoose. This Stripe-necked Mongoose was photographed recently in the new Tirunelli-Kudrakotte elephant corridor being purchased with funds from WLT in Kerala...
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19 March 2007WLT's partner, the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), have recently released six elephant calves in Manas National Park - this is the first time that elephants have been rehabilita...
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19 March 2007Evidence of the elephant presence: Footprints (top) and damage to trees. Click on the images to see larger versions. World Land Trust (WLT) is working with Wildlife Trust of...
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21 January 2007Summary The World Land Trust is now supporting three projects in the Atlantic forest of Brazil – one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world – working with REGU...
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20 June 2006Most of India’s 450 million women live in the countryside, where they rarely own land and have little economic power and yet, when motivated, they have within their power the...
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10 October 20056-9pm, Thursday 27th October at Country & Eastern, Old Skating Rink Gallery Bethel Street, Norwich Launched in 2004, World Land Trust is working with the Wildlife Trus...
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30 November 2004Toomai of the Elephants is an extract from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in India's Garo Hills, the area where the World Land Trust's Elephant C...
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30 November 2004Kirsty with an orphaned elephant. See a larger image here. (Use your back button to return.) A Journey to the Elephant Corridor of Garo Hills, India In November 2004 Kirsty...
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03 October 2003The World Land Trust (WLT) formally launched its new campaign to raise funds for elephant corridors in N E India, at a reception held in the Mall Gallery on the 30th September. The...
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20 June 2003Indian Elephant, drawn by Priyanka Jena (11) from Ghaziabad India Protecting a wildlife corridor to save the Indian Elephant Elephant conservation - a first for the WLT In...
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20 June 2003Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and the WLT are working together to protect a natural elephant corridor in NE India. This is the first project the WLT has undertaken for the protecti...
