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February has been an action-packed month for our Rapid Response Unit operating out of the Agra Bear Rescue Facility. They

Bobby is a new member of our team residing at the Agra Bear Rescue Facility (ABRF). He was rescued by

by- Suvidha Bhatnagar Wildlife SOS witnessed a beautiful Christmas when children with special needs visited Elephant Conservation and Care Center,

It has been almost 6 months since you made it possible for us to rescue Raju. We wanted to give

Ashish Batura has been a dedicated and invaluable member of the Wildlife SOS team since 2008. Recently, he relocated to

On a cold November night the Air Force Station in Agra had a surprise visitor who infiltrated the station security

Wildlife SOS celebrated a Wildlife Week in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department at the Van Vihar National Park,

Tell us who you are and how you started working with Wildlife SOS? My name is Steve Koyle and I’m

Raju’s case was not listed today at Allahabad High Court but is now likely to be heard on the 3rd

I taught public school, grades 4-9, for 34 years. During that time I developed curriculum on Humane Education that went

We just wanted to share with you that Raju’s court case has now been delayed until October 27. There isn’t

It is challenging to deal with man-animal conflict, especially in areas where tribals and animals breathe the same air. In

For those of you awaiting news and the outcome for Raju’s court case, please note that his case is now

Raju has suffered 50 years of unimagineable cruelty. Two months ago, the world worked together to set him free. But

Wildlife SOS in alliance with Art Spice at The Metropolitan Hotel and Spa collaborated with Singapore-based artist Alpana Ahuja to

The political nerve center of the country had a unique visitor on Saturday – a wild animal “palm civet”, a

We have some great news, there is now a court order that is allowing for us to finally rescue an

This week on National Geographic Radio, host Boyd Matson interviews Wildlife SOS co-founder, Kartick Satyanarayan. Here are some excerpts from

This Environment day, on 5th June 2014 , our sister organisation Friendicoes SECA had members of Google team working as

Located in Agra, adjacent to our bear rescue centre, is a piece of land we call Elephant Conservation and Care

by- Suvidha Bhatnagar In a crucial rescue operation carried out by the Wildlife Protection Department and Wildlife SOS, an eight

Wildlife SOS’s Agra Bear Rescue Facility and Elephant Conservation and Care Centre has won the Trip Advisor “Certificate of Excellence”

By Kadambari Atri Pepper was rescued from Badoi village in Uttar Pradesh on 21st March 2010. He was a 3

by- Aaliya Mir An event was organized by Wildlife SOS on ‘International Day for Biological Diversity-2014 with the aim of

By Kadambari Atri Recently, Wildlife SOS had organised it’s first online auction fundraiser that started from 7th April and continued

by- Aaliya Mir A Famous Kashmiri Proverb “Aan Poshe Tale,Yalee Waan Poshe”(Food will last if Forests Shall). The environment faces

By Aaliya Mir A program was organized for the staff of the WPD to identify the problems faced by the

Her Excellency Vijay Thakur Singh lighting the lamp at the exhibition’s opening ceremony Singapore hosted an inspiring art exhibition featuring

By Aaliya Mir February 7, 2014: Raja and Zara are three-year-old Moon Bears in Pahalgam. Rescued a little less than

By Ankita Kanwar January 31, 2014: It was a chilly Friday morning as our communication team at Wildlife SOS made

by- Suvidha Bhatnagar “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”- Scott Hamilton As part of the Kalandar Education

By Amanjeet Kaur A foggy winter morning recently, the team of Wildlife SOS received a call from RFO Raya about

by- Suvidha Bhatnagar “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”- J.R.R. Tolkien Wildlife SOS has

Every day, our staff cares for more than 500 sloth bears at our four sanctuaries across India. Prior to being

By Kirsty Angus We first found out about Wildlife SOS through a fellow Australian traveller and then saw a 2

By Amanjeet Kaur Captive elephants in India have a cruel history of being used for begging, held in temples for

By Prathamesh Desai A couple of days ago, a rat snake that was 6.5 ft. long was rescued from a

Wildlife SOS is participating in the Crowdrise Holiday Challenge. This is an opportunity for us to raise much needed funds

By Rakhee Sharma Aashiya comes from a poor Kalandar family. There are 6 in her family and Aashiya is the

By Aaliya Mir It has been almost a decade since Wildlife SOS started its program in Kashmir with the goal

By Resham Beri Bhola is a 48 years old Asiatic elephant who was abused his entire life and forced to

By Resham Beri Remember the radio collared sloth bear that was rescued by Wildlife SOS and released back in Suhelwa

By Resham Beri In a one of a kind rescue and release operation, The Uttar Pradesh Forest Department and Wildlife

By Tahir Gazanfar An inter school painting competition was held at the Kashmir Harvard Educational Institute, Habak, Naseembagh. The event

By Steffi Joseph Vishwamitir Railway Station, Vadodara, Gujarat had an unusual visitor a few days ago when a 2.5 ft.

By Steffi Joseph In an interesting rescue operation, we got a call from a person who identified a strange scaly

By Resham Beri and Steffi Joseph Rajbir Singh is the coordinator of the Wildlife SOS Helpline Unit and has been

By Steffi Joseph “And there’s always a way to begin with.”-Autumn Doughton In our attempt to solve the problem of

By Steffi Joseph In a historic rescue effort, over 300 birds were saved from the disaster that Cyclone Phailin caused

Rakhee Sharma has been overseeing the Kalandar rehab program for the past 7 years. Her day starts bright and earlier,

Over two years ago, two young moon bears were rescued from the trunk of a Chinar tree. The two orphaned

Wildlife SOS held a series of events during Wildlife Week that ran from October 2nd through the 8th. One of

By Aaliya Mir A snake was recently rescued in the foothills of Koh-e-Maran in the old city near a revered

By Rajesh Bhavsar This is a photo gallery of a 13 ft. that was rescued in Gujarat in the early

By Resham Beri In a joint Anti-poaching operation by Jharkhand Forest Department, police and Wildlife SOS, three young sloth bears

By Resham Beri It was an eventful day for Wildlife SOS’s Bangalore team after they received a call from the

By Resham Beri, Chanchal, one of our rescued elephants is currently under going treatment for a digestive disorder. We began

By Steffi Joseph Wildlife SOS, a Delhi based NGO received a call on their Vadodara helpline about a strange looking

By Steffi Joseph Delhi, 23 August: In a historic and landmark judgment issued by the Karnatak High Court, six tiger

By Resham Beri With the advent of the monsoon season, our 24 hour animal rescue helpline has been buzzing with

Fifteen years ago, in 1998, a small crocodile was caught at a temple outside of Lalbaug. He was measured to

Snehal Bhavsar has been relentless for the past 30 years in her efforts to help wildlife. Her specialty has become

How does one live in harmony with bears? That is the question that the Wildlife SOS-Kashmir team is trying to

Iconic celebrities from around the world like the Barbi Twins are now asking people to help working and performing elephants

As many of you know, in our work to solve the ‘dancing bear problem in India, we worked with the

By Dr. Jordan Schaul (jordan@wildlifesos.org) Twelve hours of driving in the scorching summer heat is what our wildlife rescue team

Photo not of gharial, but of juvenile mugger crocodile! By Dr. Jordan Schaul Last week we received great news from

Press Release: WILDLIFE SOS APPEALS TO HOLLYWOOD AND BOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES LIKE AMITABH BACHCHAN TO HELP RESCUE BEGGING STREET ELEPHANTS IN

*** PLEASE NOTE, THIS BIJLEE IS A DIFFERENT ELEPHANT THAN THE BIJLI THAT WE HAVE ALREADY RESCUED AND LIVES WITH

Surender and Rohtas and rescued wolf snake Last night, in the middle of a festive social event in Agra for

By Jordan Schaul Desh Raj Singh, known to most of us as Veeru is one of our sloth bear keepers.

The Wildlife SOS Anti poaching team “Forestwatch” rescued two young bears from the border state of Bihar that lies on

By Jordan Schaul A day after the International Day for Biological Diversity was celebrated worldwide, our growing herd of rescued

By Aaliya Mir and Jordan Carlton Schaul Wildlife SOS was invited to help launch and participate in an exciting cycling

Wildlife SOS has programs working to try and inspire students to both care about wildlife and to take an active

The olive ridley sea turtle is considered to be one of the most abundant sea turtles; however, due to a

By Aaliya Mir Almost two years ago, we rescued two sibling moon bear cubs from the trunk of a Chinar

This is a special announcement. We are very pleased and proud that Kartick Satyanarayan, one of the founders of Wildlife

Aaliya Mir is the Education Officer for Wildlife SOS in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. She leads a team

In an all night anti poaching rescue operation based on intelligence provided by Wildlife SOS, four young male sloth bears

Vinay Datla is the new volunteer coordinator for Wildlife SOS. This is a new program for Wildlife SOS and we

At 11 AM on January 26, Wildlife SOS had a surprise visitor. An 8 week old leopard cub had been

The Wildlife SOS Moon Bear Conservation Project in Kashmir today works on conflict mitigation to help prevent bear human conflict

It isn’t easy to run a 24 hour rescue program; it is even more daunting in a city like Delhi.

In the early hours of 3rd December 2012, Wildlife SOS team in Bangalore headed by Dr Arun A Sha received

In 2009, Wildlife SOS along with an international NGO coalition was able to bring an effective end to the dancing

Working with elephants is a dream that many people have. But what is it really like to work with an

This is part 2 of the interview with Dr. Yaduraj. 5.) Tell us about a typical day for you. Typically,

By Tamara Dormer Sometimes we look to others for inspiration and other times it shows up when we least expect

Four years and over 3,200 tweets later, WSOS now has over 10,000 followers! Kartick Satyanarayan, who is usually the voice

Wildlife SOS, currently runs a facility called the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Center. This center, located a short drive from Mumbai,

OS rescued a four foot long adult Cobra from inside the Commonwealth Games venue – the RK Khanna Tennis Stadium.

Two cobras rescued from CWG 2010 gates no 1 and 2 . A call was received at the Wildlife SOS

These days Wildlife S.O.S Delhi cell is being flooded by calls for distressed Blue Bulls or what we commonly know

It was 9 am on a cool December morning when the phone rang at The Agra Bear Rescue Facility. The

Wildlife SOS recently organised an awareness and training program in Reptile handling at Delhi’s elite Jawaharlal Nehru University. Jawaharlal Nehru

Wildlife SOS is organising a 15 day Habitat Management Project in RamDurga near Hampi, Karnataka. Starting on February 14th and

Last summer, Wildlife SOS’ ever vigilant informers at last spotted Bijli, a female elephant we had been tracking since 2009.

This blind elephant named Bhola (meaning – “the innocent one”) was recently the victim of an accident…hit by a truck,

The current issue of SPAN Magazine (a publication of the US Embassy in New Delhi) features an article about Wildlife

Wildlife S.O.S’s love affair with elephants seems to be growing each day. Barely a few months after rescuing the beautiful

In the current issue of Open, author Ninad D. Sheth explores the issue of poaching in India. Co-founder of Wildlife

After fifty long years of being chained and leading a life of suffering, Raju was freed in the early hours

The month of June brought both the gloom of the monsoons and heartbreaking news to the Agra Bear Rescue Facility.

Kitcha is a seven year old male sloth bear at the Agra Bear Rescue Facility. Rescued by Wildlife SOS in

Raju was rescued a little over one month ago. After 50 years in chains, he is now learning the joys

By- Aaliya Mir With the sudden increase in issues regarding Man-Wild animal conflicts, Wildlife SOS had organised a series of

Recently, Wildlife SOS had a blog posted in the Huffington Post on the topic that raises the question, is there

On 1st November 2014, the Bangalore Bear Rescue Center was buzzing with volunteers from Tech Mahindra, Bangalore. The enthusiastic team

For Raju, a new life of freedom began after 50 years of cruelty, when he was rescued by Wildlife SOS

September 8th thru September 14th Wildlife SOS is working with Whimsical Pet Portraits to raise money to help more elephants

The Limca Book of records celebrated their 25th year of existence by honoring 25 women for their contributions to society.

Right after Raju’s rescue happened, those of us at Wldlife SOS were extremely touched by the overwhelming support that came

When Raju was rescued in July, 2014, his story caught fire and was covered by major news outlets around the

We don’t have a lot of information about Raju’s earlier life. We believe he was probably born in the wild

WE just got word that there is an elephant by the name of Lilly that needs our help . She

New Delhi, INDIA (September 3, 2014) Chances are you either saw the video or heard the story of Raju the

by Suvidha Bhatnagar “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.” – Helen Keller The Kalandars,

1.) I don’t understand, I thought Wildlife SOS had legal custody of Raju. How can Mr. Shahid make claims to

Following the rescue of Raju, there was a high demand for Raju t-shirts. We took in the recommendations and requests

On June 28, 2014, Wildlife SOS’s Bangalore Bear Rescue Facility had members of Morgan Stanley team working as volunteers as

It has been one year since Bijli passed. Although she was in our life for a short time, she will

By Amanjeet Kaur “I’ve wanted to work with wildlife since childhood. Transforming passion for wildlife into a career felt like

Following the iconic midnight rescue operation of ‘Raju’ Elephant, carried out by Delhi based NGO – Wildlife SOS, it was

Laxmi is an elephant that was rescued by Wildlife SOS in July of 2013. She came to us morbidly obese

By Aaliya Mir The village of Naesh Bhat is in the district of Baramulla and has a population of about

By Prathamesh One among the most active bear in ABRF is Kanmani. She is not just very active, she is

R Wildlife SOS is involved with the rescuing and rehabilitating many different species of animals. What is less known, is

By Aaliya Mir and Jordan Carlton Schaul Volunteer programs are an integral part of Wildlife SOS conservation initiatives. Our volunteers

By Steffi Joseph Playful as ever, Chanchal has lived up to her name with her daily antics, winning hearts every