Survival of tigers is dependent on conservation and management efforts. To gauge the success of conservation efforts as well as to guide management inputs, it is important to assess the effectiveness of management of Tiger Reserves. This publication aims at compiling management issues and key recommendations evolved from different cycles …
The man-animal conflict in the Sunderbans has touched scores of women tragically, leaving Jelepara a village of 'tiger widows' Trouble Prowling Jelepara village, in the Sunderbans, is known as the Village of Widows, because of the large number of its inhabitants killed by man-eating tigers Locals say on average tigers …
Ahmedabad : The Thakkar family from Satyagarh Society in Satellite is praying for Raja, a 16-year-old Royal Bengal Tiger at Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden at Kankaria. For the past week Raja, one of four Bengal tigers at the zoo, has been suffering from weakness in hind legs and other ailments. …
P.Oppili This is a first-time event at the Vandalur zoo CHENNAI: The three-and-half-year-old white tigress, Anu, at Vandalur zoo gave birth to three cubs early on Tuesday. It is the first time that a white tigress has delivered cubs at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park, Vandalur, since the facility was …
BHUBANESWAR: The debate over tiger population in Similipal will go on for sure. The latest census carried out in Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) has put their number at 71. Last year the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had created a flutter by projecting the population in the reserve at 20 …
Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore: As a significant contribution to the wildlife science education and in monitoring the tiger population, the City-based Wildlife Conservation Society of India, for the first time in the world, has released a training video titled
Over the last fortnight, the Madhya Pradesh government moved two tigresses from Bandhavgarh sanctuary to the Panna tiger reserve. Apparently, this was aimed at enhancing the "dwindling tiger population" by encouraging the big cats to mate. But wildlife experts rubbish the state government effort: they say the big question is …
New Delhi: Ten tigers in Kaziranga, Assam, and seven in Kanha, Madhya Pradesh, have died since November 2008. An alarmed Ministry of Environment and Forests has deployed teams from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) to investigate into these deaths. While one team reached Kaziranga on Wednesday, another one is …
Mumbai: Forest dept says fire was doused in half-an-hour, no animal injured A fresh fire broke out at the tiger safari enclosure in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) on Wednesday evening, but was extinguished soon, said D Rathod, superintendent of lion/tiger safari. About half-an-acre within the enclosure was gutted …
Nainital: For the second time in a week, officials at the Corbett Tiger Reserve recovered the carcass of a 10-year-old tiger at Hathidangar in the reserve
Bhopal: Unaffected by the furore over the alarming decline in tiger population in Panna National Park, Madhya Pradesh Forest department has claimed that only two tigers were killed between January 2005 and January 2008. Minister of State for Forests Rajendra Shukla told the Assembly on Tuesday that the Wildlife Institute …
BHOPAL: Having successfully shifted two tigresses to the Panna Tiger Reserve recently, the Madhya Pradesh State Forest Department now plans to move a tiger there, too, as the sanctuary
