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 …
Sumatra's endangered elephants and tigers should get a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens, a four-year-old national park on the island, conservation body WWF said on Thursday. But WWF warned that increased efforts would be vital to ensure that poaching and other illegal …
The big cat in Bhopal park suffers from cancer every morning forest officials drive Mamta Jain and her six cousins to an enclosure at Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal. The group settles down around the enclosure and starts giving reiki, the Japanese healing technique, to Rini, an 18-year-old white …
The future looks bleak for the tigers of Bangladesh's Sundarbans mangrove forest at the mouth of the Ganges river. Today some 400 of these impressive carnivores roam through the world's largest surviving mangrove ecosystem. By mid-century, global warming is likely to have starved the Sunderbans' tigers into oblivion.
Neha Sinha Corbett, August 8: Tourism and its ensuing commercialisation are gradually emerging as big threats to the Corbett Tiger Reserve. Around 40 resorts have come up in the tiger corridor leading up to the reserve and just last month, a tiger was hit on this corridor by a tourist …
The main objective of Project Tiger is to ensure a viable population of tiger in India for scientific , economic , aesthetic , cultural and ecological values and to preserve for all time, areas of biological importance as a natural heritage for the benefit, education and enjoyment of the people. …
A response, from agencies that have facilitated the translocation of tigers, throwing light on the selection process of tigers in Ranthambhore Using the skill and knowledge of field forest officers in Ranthambhore, we selected two young adult tigresses that were yet to carve out their own territories. That made them …
WWF and Nokia join hands to save the tiger Conservation Need of the hour Mobile communications company Nokia India, has announced its partnership with conservation organisation WWF-India, that it will be involved in WWF-India's Tiger conservation programme. This announcement was jointly made by Ravi Singh, Secretary General and CEO, WWF-India, …
Jamshedpur, July 24: Tata Steel Zoological Society has lost a family member. Varsha, the ailing female leopard, died this morning in the zoo hospital. A post-mortem was done before the nine-year-old was put in an incinerator. A favourite among children, Varsha fell sick after liver complications about a month ago. …
Suddenly, across the spectrum of print and electronic media, the Indian tiger is making its presence felt. From dwindling numbers to reintroduction of the species in Sariska, the audience is being fed on information about what oft has been called the king of the jungle. It might be an instance …
By YOJNA GUSAI New Delhi, July 18: Arguing that it has a right to kill its captive tigers and criticising those against tiger farming, China tried to stall India's effort in bringing in more efforts and strengthening global tiger conservation programmes, at the just concluded standing committee meeting of UN's …
Bhima Bawariya was arrested in 2005 following a seizure of tiger parts, is now out on bail This Monday, a team from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) raided a house in Old Gurgaon and recovered a 14-foot long tiger carcass. The tiger had clearly been poached recently, but the …
NEW DELHI: After a tiger skeleton was recovered from a residential premises at Surat Nagar in Gurgaon on Monday following a combined raid by the local police and officials of the Delhi-based Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, the Haryana police have registered a case and are now looking for the accused …
The tiger cannot be preserved if we ignore the incentives to kill it Even as a tentative beginning is made in Sariska, tiger parts seized in Gurgaon are a reminder of the dire threat that continues to stalk India's dwindling tiger population. This is the biggest seizure so far for …
GURGAON/NEW DELHI: A complete tiger skeleton was recovered from a residential premises at Surat Nagar in Gurgaon on Monday afternoon following a combined raid by the Gurgaon police and officials of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau. A senior official of the Bureau said: "The raid was carried out following a …
LOST IN SARISKA: The tigress from Ranthambhore who is yet to come to terms with her new surroundings. JAIPUR: The male tiger introduced into Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar district of Rajasthan ten days ago from Ranthambhore National Park is coping well while the condition of the female, brought in …
By Narayan Bareth, Jaipur,July 7: The tiger which was relocated to Sariska from Ranthambore has been released from the enclosure on Sunday and the big cat moved in the thick forest in a bid to establish its territory. Villagers in the vicinity heard the tiger roar quite a number of …
