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 unprecedented death of nine tigers within a period of just three months in Kaziranga National Park has sent shockwaves across the conservation fraternity. The developments have naturally put a question mark on the prevailing security mechanism in the park. While the Forest Department has claimed that none of the …
Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi Forest land surrounding all major tiger reserves in the country may turn into farmland and commercial establishments following recategorisation of these expanses as revenue land. The decision has been taken to lure inhabitants out of the villages in core tiger habitats across the country. …
Kaziranga National Park (KNP) along with tiger reserves in 17 States has been placed under high alert following death of over 10 tigers in the last three months. The alert has been sounded by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) following intelligence inputs that organised poachers were on the prowl …
This study estimates the recreational demand for the Indian Sundarban, which is a World Heritage site and a complex mangrove ecosystem that borders India and Bangladesh. In 2005-06, the Indian Sunderban received some 64,000 visitors, mainly from Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal. Tourism to the Sunderban is highly …
- Birsa Munda Zoological Park allows individuals and organisations to adopt animals and birds ANEETA SHARMA Take your pick: A tiger and birds at the Birsa Munda Zoological Park in Ranchi. File pictures Ranchi, Jan. 29: Like someone you saw at the zoo? Now, you can adopt them too. The …
LUCKNOW: Let the experts and forest officials believe that instances of wild cats sneaking out of the jungles into the cities are a result of urbanisation at the cost wildlife, forest minister Fateh Bahadur Singh sees mischief behind it, if not sheer politics. Meanwhile, reasons whatsoever, the failure of the …
Bhopal, Jan 21: It will be a misnomer to call 2004 Tiger census a census as the right word for it would be estimation or enumeration. Later in the year 2006 Wildlife Institute of India (WII) developed new technique and found new method of estimation of tiger population which is …
LUCKNOW: Finally, a lifeline is in sight for the two-and-a-half-year-old stray tiger cub who was sentenced to death by the state forest department last month. The cub, declared man-eater by the department after it claimed its first human victim in Bara Banki on December 23, now becomes a key figure …
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) sanctioned Rs 25 lakh to the State Forest department for various tiger operations being carried out in the state. The budget, after being released, would be utilised for installing two mobile vehicles equipped with the state-of-the-art facilities. This was …
UP deploys 100 guards to track them The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) sanctioned Rs 25 lakh to the State Forest department for various tiger operations being carried out in the Sate. The budget, after being released, would be utilised for installing two mobile vehicles equipped with the state-of-the-art facilities. …
Girish Sharma | Bhopal The Panna Tiger Reserve here, which once had nearly 32 tigers, is now left with only a couple of big cats. In a bid to augment the number of felines at the park, the forest department has decided to shift two tigresses in the jungles by …
Ananda Banerjee | New Delhi The first successful wild tiger relocation from the Ranthambore National Park to Sariska Tiger Reserve has injected immense hope and confidence among forest officials and wildlife scientists, who had taken one of the most delicate translocation jobs in natural history. The Panna Relocation Project imminently …
Chittaranjan Tembhekar | TNN Mumbai: This train is more than a year late. The Vidarbha Queen has been waiting for about a year-and-a-half to make its inaugural run as a luxury tiger safari train, but it may be shunted back onto the passenger track because of a disagreement between the …
STRAYING FOR A CAUSE Lucknow: The incident of a young tiger venturing out of Pilibhit forest has been a blessing in disguise for the wildlife of Uttar Pradesh. The tiger, it seems, has walked 300 kms away from its natural habitat for a cause
lucknow: Even as the Forest Department has its hands full trying to track down two stray tigers in Ghazipur and Faizabad, another one surfaced near Tanda village of Lakhimpur Kheri district and killed a 16-year-old boy on Sunday. Pillu Singh was killed by the tiger, which Forest officials suspect, strayed …
