We provide a detailed analysis of the time-evolutions of free and bound entangled states in a twoqutrit system under the effects of local/non-local classical dephasing noises. Namely the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) and the static noise are considered. The importance of the initial state is also analyzed by considering two completely different initially entangled states and their respective locally equivalent states by means of local unitary operation (LUO). The qutrits isotropic and bound entangled states are studied and we analyze their dynamical evolution to infer quantum states transition in the system. We demonstrate the absence of state transitions for isotropic-like states, unlike bound entangled-like states where free entangled states may lose distillability. Disentanglement however occurs for independents environments no matter the initial state. Meanwhile, for a common environment we show that indefinite free entanglement survival can be achieved (suppression of distillability sudden death) by converting the initial state using the LUO, hence saving free entanglement in the bipartite high dimensional quantum system, useful for quantum information and processing purposes.OPEN ACCESS RECEIVED of entanglement) [28]. Thus, it is very important to analyze, characterize and optimize dynamical properties of the various kinds of environmental noise on entanglement dynamics in open quantum systems, which are of particular importance in practical quantum information processing.Previous works mostly concentrated on quantum correlations dynamics for mixed states in 2-dimensional quantum systems (qubits) as in [29][30][31][32][33], just to list a few. However, as compared to qubits, maximally entangled qudits violate local realism more strongly and are less affected by noise [34,35]. Thus, it is peculiar to characterize the dynamics of quantum correlations in systems of higher dimensions, so as to construct a useful parallel with the more extensively studied case of entanglement. In fact, higher-dimensional quantum systems can be used to improve the efficiency of quantum information processing [4,34,36]. In this sense, the dynamics of the high-dimensional bipartite entangled systems have been investigated [37,38]. It has been revealed that higher dimensional systems may have advantages over the qubit ones, as they provide higher channel capacities, more secure cryptography and superior quantum gates [39][40][41]. In view of this fact, there have been some investigations regarding qutrit systems in the recent years, among which [42][43][44][45][46][47][48] just to cite a few examples. On the other hand, bipartite entangled states can be divided into free-entangled states (FES) and bound entangled states (BES) [2, 49]. FES can be distilled under local operations and classical communication (LOCC) whereas, BES cannot be distilled to pure state entanglement. However, it is interesting that some bound entanglement can be distilled by certain procedures [50] or interaction with auxiliary systems [38, 51, 52]. These properties ...