Job Category: Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC)

Location: CWRC, Assam

Date Posted: 16-July-2026

Qualification - M.V.Sc / B.V.Sc

Experience - 0-2 years

Role Context: The Veterinary Surgeon plays a critical role in the rescue, treatment, rehabilitation, and release of distressed, injured, orphaned, displaced, and conflict-affected wildlife within the Kaziranga landscape and other designated areas of Assam. The position is responsible for providing professional veterinary care, ensuring adherence to wildlife welfare standards, supporting disease surveillance and diagnostics, and contributing to conservation outcomes through scientific wildlife management practices.

The incumbent will work closely with the Assam Forest Department, Kaziranga National Park authorities, project teams, and other stakeholders to ensure effective wildlife rescue and rehabilitation interventions while maintaining compliance with applicable wildlife, veterinary, and organizational policies and protocols.

The Key Responsibilities are as follows –

- Respond to wildlife rescue emergencies and provide timely veterinary intervention to injured, distressed, orphaned, or displaced wildlife.

- Plan and undertake secure capture, restraint, immobilization, transportation, stabilization, and treatment of wildlife using approved veterinary protocols.

- Provide comprehensive veterinary care, including diagnosis, treatment, surgery, anesthesia, post-operative care, and rehabilitation of rescued wildlife.





- Ensure humane handling, husbandry, and welfare of all animals under care, following recognized national and international wildlife management standards.

- Facilitate the rehabilitation and release of rescued wildlife in accordance with organizational protocols, legal requirements, and IUCN guidelines.

- Support conflict mitigation interventions involving wildlife and provide technical recommendations for appropriate rehabilitation or placement of displaced animals.

- Conduct post-release monitoring activities, where feasible, to assess the success of rehabilitation and release efforts.

- Investigate wildlife morbidity and mortality cases and support disease surveillance activities across the project landscape.

- Conduct necropsies and ensure proper collection, preservation, documentation, and dispatch of biological samples for laboratory investigations.

- Monitor and investigate emerging infectious, zoonotic, and reverse zoonotic diseases affecting wildlife populations.

- Maintain accurate veterinary records related to treatment, anesthesia, surgery, diagnostics, laboratory investigations, mortality, and rehabilitation outcomes.

- Contribute to wildlife health research, documentation, scientific publications, and technical reports in consultation with project leadership.

- Promote evidence-based veterinary practices and support development of wildlife health protocols and standard operating procedures.

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