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 …
PANJIM, JAN 5 Why are there hardly any or no tigers in Goa? Well, one may not have a clear answer to this, but eminent wildlife biologist Dr A J T Johnsingh who says Goa had tiger population in the past, has given a suggestion to attract tigers to Goa.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: Has the young tiger of Pilibhit outwitted WII? The twomember team of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had joined the search operation about a week back. Going by the reports from Faizabad division, the team has gone back. In all possibility, another set of experts have …
There is threat to the existence of big cat in Madhya Pradesh which has the distinction of being called a Tiger State. Pressure is mounting on the Forest Department, as poachers are active in the surrounding areas of Kanha National Park, Bandhavgarh National Park and Panna National Park. Tiger Cell …
The Bangladesh Tiger Action Plan (BTAP) marks the beginning of a structured approach to achieving long-term conservation of tigers in Bangladesh. The BTAP is a policy level document that provides a vision, goals, and objectives to guide an integrated and focused tiger conservation programme. The vision is to ensure protected …
KOLKATA, Dec. 31: With the incidence of tigers straying into human settlements increasing, the state forest department has decided to put up nylon fencing for nearly 10 km. In addition, the department has also taken the decision of implementing a management system in the buffer zone similar to the one …
Lucknow: The forest department has flunked the test on operation tiger once again. The villagers behaving rowdily around the area where the tiger wandered into the agri-fields in Ghazipur division of Varanasi showed that no lesson has been learnt from the incident of Barabanki. A boy was killed by a …
The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the only mangrove in the world where tigers still live. The Sundarbans has been under various forms of management for about 2,000 years, and is classified as a Tiger Conservation Landscape of Global Priority. Little is known about the Sundarbans tigers, which are …
Following the death of a Royal Bengal Tiger in the custody of State Forest Department, the West Bengal government is planning to set up a wildlife treatment and rehabilitation centre near the forest. State forest officials said this decision was taken on Wednesday at the State secretariat as part of …
At the beginning of this year, a ground-breaking, new, and scientific tiger census, which took two years to complete, announced that there were 1,411 wild tigers left in India. By November, the Government had admitted that of that number, 14 tigers had been poached this year. The figure actually may …
The forest department has flunked the test on operation tiger once again. The villagers behaving rowdily around the area where the tiger wandered into the agri-fields in Ghazipur division of Varanasi showed that no lesson has been learnt from the incident of Barabanki. A boy was killed by a tiger …
But will that save the tiger reserve from heading the Sariska way? TWO tigresses from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve will be introduced in Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh by February 2009.
Efforts to bolster tiger population in Sariska Two tigers, one male and one female, were introduced in Sariska Tiger Reserve, where the tiger population had dropped to zero, in June 2008. The tigers were brought from the nearby Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve. The plan also involved relocating four villages
Worried about increasing incidence of the Royal Bengal Tigers straying into human settlements the chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has asked the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve to conduct a survey. According to Mr Kanti Ganguly, the minister for Sundarban Development Affairs, the chief minister expressed his concern about the big cats …
With the forest hunters desperately looking for the stray tiger to gun it down, the wildlife experts have slammed the move.Instead, they say, that it is a garb adopted by the forest department to cover its inability in catching the animal despite repeated attempts. It is a perfectly healthy and …
Neha Shukla | TNN Lucknow: Luck seems on its side, at least for now. Ever since the shooting orders were issued, forest hunters have not made a sighting of the stray tiger. But, they feel the animal should now run for its life. Its only chance to survive is the …
Lucknow: Both the agencies work towards the same purpose - conservation of the wildlife. One is shouting foul as the other wants to kill the stray tiger which has been running for life for the last one month.The shoot-at-sight orders of the Chief Wildlife Warden could end the big cat
- Foresters find 25-30 samples of scat in five-day-long census Foresters have found 25-30 samples of tiger faeces in the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary during the five-day long census that ended yesterday. The faeces or scat is the second most conclusive evidence after direct sighting to confirm the presence of big …
