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 …
KOCHI: Rajesh Gopal, member secretary of the National Tiger Conservation Authority under the Ministry of Environment and Forest, will deliver the keynote address at the two-day national seminar being held on September 22 and 23 at Thekkady in connection with the platinum jubilee of the Periyar Tiger Reserve. The seminar …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: A 60-km stretch of railway track passing through the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh has been identified as one that has maximum tiger movement during night. The State Government has suggested that trains slow down on this stretch. In the latest such instance, a male tiger …
Suddenly on July 19, without warning, Control Party 2, also called CP-2, disappeared off the face of the earth. Its disappearance sent the entire Wildlife Department into a tizzy because CP 2 was the wild tigress flown by the Indian Air Force from Ranthambore to the Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary as …
A Royal Bengal tigress was found dead under mysterious circumstances at the Chhatbir Zoological Park on Sunday evening. Zoo sources said fighting with another inmate in the enclosure cost Shanti her life. The role of the management has come under the scanner as it had reportedly deployed a few beldaars …
A tiger, on his usual territorial stroll in Katarniaghat in Terai area of Bahraich district in UP, was besieged by something entirely alien: a train. The tiger was transfixed and taken completely by surprise. And as he stood frozen, the train, running through the Katarnia ghat Forest Reserve, dragged the …
This study attempts to examine the extent and impact of human-animal conflicts visa-vis psychosocial stressors and mental health of affected people in two villages adjacent to Sundarban Reserve Forest (SRF) in the Gosaba Block, West Bengal, India.
Aizawl, Sept 9: The World Bank is expected to give Rs 1,700 lakh for maintenance of Mizorams Dampa Tiger Reserve. The Dampa Tiger Reserve, situated on the western part of Mizoram along the international border with Bangladesh, about 127 km from Aizawl, is one of the six approved tiger reserves …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: The death of a tiger on the railway track near Manjha Purbi halt on the Mailani-Gonda rail section in Katerniaghat Wildlife Division in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh this past Friday has evoked a strong reaction from the State Government. Apart from FIRs being lodged against the …
BY AMITA VERMA LUCKNOW The mutilated body of a male tiger was found on the Mailani Gonda rail track on Saturday between Tikunia and Bichhia which falls between Katarniaghat and North Kheri forest divisions of UP
An international racket of trade in tiger parts has been unearthed by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) leading to the arrest of three alleged poachers. The racket, having connections with Narayan, brother of jailed poacher Sansarchand, was busted during a five-month-long operation in four north Indian states. Three key …
Neha Sinha New Delhi, September 2: Madhya Pradesh is set to go ahead with an elaborate plan to radio-collar and translocate gaur or the Indian Bison, a Schedule 1 protected animal, to the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve from the Kanha Tiger Reserve 200 km away, though a herd of the animal …
Teena Thacker New Delhi, September 2: The Government has issued strict restrictions on the sale of drug diclofenac, used to treat animals, after evidence emerged that the drug indirectly caused the death of vultures that fed on the carcasses of these animals. Dead Ranthambore tigress
D. Radhakrishnan UNAWARE OF DANGER: A deer darting across the road at Mavanhallah near the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. UDHAGAMANDALAM: The pressure stemming from development should not allow the man-wildlife conflict to get out of hand. Adopting this approach, the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near here has drawn up a plan to …
From the Gir National Park in Gujarat to the Sunderbans in West Bengal, lions and tigers are ranging far beyond territories administered by the forest department. Communities that have traditionally been accommodative are now unsettled, their patience worn thin by the rising incidents of human-animal conflicts. Yet, the debate on …
Tigers attack people. People impatient, they are second priority. What is the way out? July 24, 2007. Hungry and exhausted after fishing all day on the Bidyadhari river, Amirul Naiya, his two brothers and three other fishermen pulled up their country boat into a creek in the dense Sunderbans mangroves, …
The federal government has banned the import of tigers, lions and other big cat species. According to highly placed sources, earlier, the federal government, following regular incidents of smuggling of big cats by certain wildlife traffickers, which were exposed by the media while the official regulators either remained unaware or …
Bangalore, DHNS: To ensure flawless counting and monitoring of tigers in the wild, the Wildlife Conservation Society- India Project and Trust for Environment Education have come out with a video training module. The video guide
