Help rescue wild animals and birds in India

Hello and greetings from Wildlife Trust of India!

We hope you are doing great.

With this email, we are sharing updates for our project titled 'Help Rescue Wild Animals and Birds in India'. We are so honoured and grateful for your support as you chose to donate for the project among so many wonderful causes out there. This means a lot to us. Thank you so much for believing in our work.

Today’s updates are from the reserve forests of Mizoram.

Last financial year we initiated a Rapid Action Project to address the threat of snakebites in Mizoram. Through this project, we provided Snake Rescue Training to a volunteer team from villages surrounding the community reserve forests of Reiek, Hmuifang & Sailam. To equip the team for snake rescue operations, rescue kits were also provided under the project. In addition, anti-venom vials were distributed in Government hospitals to help with snake bite treatment and snakebite management sessions were organised for the nurses working there.

In the reporting period, the volunteer team trained in snakebite mitigation and rescue, started receiving rescue calls from the region. Among other operations, the team handled six calls related to King Cobra nests found near houses and fields. In three such operations, the adult snakes were rescued and released at strategic locations away from human habitations. At the other three locations, the adults were not found, but their nests were. Out of fear, the community wanted to destroy the nests comprising 110 king cobra eggs. To prevent conflict, the team carefully shifted the nests with the original nest mound, and incubated them in a makeshift enclosure at the Mizoram university.

After around 45 days of incubation, the eggs started hatching and the team reached out to WTI seeking help to release the hatchlings. Realising the urgency of the matter, a Rapid Action Project was sanctioned within 24 hours, through which we provided technical and financial assistance for the release operations. The team sought the necessary permissions from the forest department, and 95 hatchlings were released within 3 days into the forests at locations away from human settlements.

The above timely intervention could be made possible through your support. Thank you so much for your donation.

Warm regards,

Team WTI