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 …
July 7: In a joint operation between Haryana police and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, about 20 kg of suspected tiger bones have been seized in Suratnagar village near Pataudi in Haryana. Sources in the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau said the chances of these bones being of tigers is 99 …
The day Sariska's first translocated tigress is slated to walk free, came further evidence of continuing pressure on the tiger from poachers: about 15-20 kg of fresh tiger bones were recovered today from the house of a known poacher in a village near Gurgaon, official sources said. The recovery was …
Sariska's gain may be the army's loss. A field firing range near the tiger reserve is likely to be closed down following the relocation of big cats from Ranthambore National Park. Rajasthan's forest department has refused to give a
A tiger census in Sundarbans is in the offing. The census, which will take place in November comes against the backdrop of conflicting reports about the exact number of big cats in the world's largest mangrove forest. As per the last census conducted in 2005, there were 344 tigers in …
Within a week of the release of actor Harrrison Ford's public service announcements warning against trafficking in endangered wildlife, the World Bank has joined the fight with its focus on the tiger. At a star-studded event that included actors Harrison Ford, Bo Derek, and Robert Duvall, the World Bank presented …
Threat To Some Endangered Species Is Up To A Hundred Times Greater Than Previously Thought Paris: Some endangered species may face an extinction risk that is up to a hundred times greater than previously thought, according to a study released on Wednesday. By overlooking random differences between individuals in a …
Bleeding Fatik Braved 12-Hour Journey Back From Sunderbans Arnab Ganguly | TNN Kolkata: For a split second Fatik Haldar didn't know what had hit him. It was a sudden, searing pain. His feet were stuck in the mud, in four feet of water in a river near Benifeli forest in …
June 12: Tigers are a rarity and spiders are dime a dozen. That has not prevented some forest officials from preferring the latter at the expense of the former. The Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger reserve (Rajiv Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary) has been witnessing a steep fall in the number of big tigers …
There is some hope for Mr Stripes straying into human habitation in Sundarbans, but none for the limbering Jumbos which are being shot down at the Nepal border, though concern for both the species was voiced by Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, state chief minister at the meeting of the state wildlife …
A heated debate has recently emerged between tiger farmers and conservationists about the potential consequences of lifting the ban on trade in farmed tiger products in China. This debate has caused unfounded speculation about the extent of the potential market for tiger products. To fill this knowledge gap, the authors …
RAKHEE ROY TALUKDAR The tiger after it reached Sariska. Picture by Gopal Sunger Jaipur, June 28: The tiger has landed in Sariska at last. In an air force helicopter. After three long and barren years, Sariska regained its stripes as a tiger reserve today, carrying out what experts said was …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority has been under pressure to produce results, especially after it acknowledged some months ago that the population of the big cat has declined sharply. Reintroducing tigers into Rajasthan's Sariska reserve, where the animal went locally extinct about four years ago, is a predictable first-order priority …
Fitted With GPS Collar As Safety Measure; Two More Big Cats To Be Flown In Sariska (Alwar): Sariska almost missed its date with history. Around 3 in the morning, it began to rain. By daybreak, it was bucketing down. You would have had to be a die-hard optimist to believe …
Sunny Sebastian New arrival: In a bid to revive the tiger population at the Sariska reserve, Rajasthan, a three-year-old male cub was airlifted on Saturday from the State's Ranthambore national park. The move reintroduces the big cat in the reserve, which lost all its tigers to poaching in 2004-05. SARISKA …
Sunny Sebastian Plan to re-introduce wild tigers in the sanctury JAIPUR: The country is on the threshold of making history by re-introducing wild tigers in one of its sanctuaries. If everything goes according to plan and the weather gods are merciful, a tiger
When a pair of tiger cubs are relocated to the Sariska Tiger Reserve in the coming days, wildlife experts won't leave them at the mercy of marauding poachers who wiped out big cats from the sanctuary in Rajasthan by 1993. The cubs, to be shifted from the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, …
Thousands of villagers armed with sticks and machetes beat to death a Royal Bengal tiger Saturday after it had killed three people at Shyamnagar upazila in Satkhira, the police said. The critically endangered animal, one of about 600 in Sundarban, the world's largest mangrove forest, was lassoed after entering a …
YOJNA GUSAI Sariska is soon going to get back its glory, which in monetary terms has cost the country's exchequer more than Rs 1.5 crore. After losing all the tigers to poachers in 2004, this tiger reserve in Rajasthan will have tigers from the Ranthambore tiger reserve by the end …
P. Oppili A film on tigress stalking its prey bags award READY FOR SIESTA: The tigress resting at a cave after a kill at the Bhandavgarh National Park in Madhya Pradesh. CHENNAI: Chakradhara, a tigress in the Bhandavgarh forests in Madhya Pradesh, has proved lucky for Y. Alphonse Roy, a …
Gobind Sagar Bharadwaj was attacked by a tiger just after his induction into the Indian Forest Service. The wounds took two months to heal. But the episode was an eye-opener for the forest officer. "The tiger could have easily killed me but it didn't as man is not on its …
