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 …
As the meeting began, I flipped open my notebook. I am very comfortable with battery waste, polluting factories, discarded keyboards and sewage. But here were a battery of experts deliberating on an issue
All over the country, tensions fill national parks and sanctuaries. People living in and around these forests see them as the last remaining source of biomass and depend on them heavily to meet their fuel and fodder needs. Regulations on grazing, for instance, have cut these people off from their …
On its face, the Scheduled Tribes and Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights), Bill, 2005 seems an uncomplicated piece of legislation. But it has been made contentious by people who refuse to see merit in anything that changes status quo. The bill's emphasis on looking at forestry-related issues from a …
The Scheduled Tribes and Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2005 has drawn much flak. Its detractors argue that the proposed legislation is based on the faulty assumption that tribals are still integral to the forest ecosystem. The fast decreasing forest-people/livestock ratio is not amenable to traditional lifestyles, today, …
From one of India's foremost reserves, right under the gaze of an establishment meant exclusively to protect the tiger, the big cat has gone missing. But this disappearance is rather unsurprising. It is not as if the ground below suddenly gave way, plunging the tiger into an abyss. The fact …
The tiger's ecology is rooted entirely in its four canine teeth. This index-finger-sized weapon enables tigers (and four other big cat species) to subdue prey animals five times their size. Its canines and two related biological traits
Maharashtra's innovative scheme for protecting its carnivore population and managing growing human-animal conflict brings much needed hope at a time when the entire country is incensed over dwindling tiger populations. The Maharashtra forest department (mfd) has created five wild carnivore rescue teams (wcrts) to handle emergency situations when animals enter …
On April 4, 2005, Sunda Bawariya and his son Kailash, who live on the fringes of Mundawara village at Viratnagar in Rajasthan's Jaipur district, were beaten up and arrested by a group of forest guards, officials and two female police personnel for tiger poaching. Sunda's wife Dholi alleges the attackers …
Prime minister Manmohan Singh has directed the constitution of a Task Force to review the management of tiger reserves in the country. The team will be headed by Sunita Narain, director, Centre for Science and Environment. It has been entrusted with suggesting ways to improve tiger conservation and the methodology …
Study was conducted to gain a better understanding on the impact of tiger attacks on people by tigers from the Sundarbans. From the study, it was observed that the highest number of tiger attacks occurred in Shatkhira and lowest in Khulna range.
With its vanishing trick in Sariska wildlife sanctuary, the tiger is back in the news. This royal beast has received attention as no other animal. But in the cacophony, we have lost sight of many basic facts. For example, is the present method to count tigers an appropriate one? We …
the wildlife crisis in in Rajasthan is getting buried in political rhetoric. Recently, prime minister (pm) Manmohan Singh wrote a letter to Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje, asking for action to protect the tiger and its habitat. Raje professed to be shocked, "Because the pm didn't show similar concern for …
In September 2004, a group of students from the Wildlife Institute of India (wii), Dehradun, went to the Sariska Tiger Reserve of Rajasthan for training. Excited about their work, they painstakingly trekked through the hilly 866 square kilometres (sq km) reserve. They couldn't spot a single tiger. Alarmed, they informed …
In Ranthambore this year, up to 18 tigers are missing. On February 2, 2005, the Delhi Police seized 39 leopard skins, 42 otter skins, and two tiger skins. Did they belong to Sariska? Today, Project Tiger cannot fulfil even its limited objective: ensure a viable tiger population by containing factors …
I really hope we are proved wrong when we say there are no tigers left in the Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan. But if it is so, what is now increasingly accepted as a sad fact should actually make us extremely angry. We must know: who was responsible for this huge …
This book is first of its kind to embody subjects like wildlife conservation and management, ethical, ecological and recreational importance of wildlife, endangered flora and fauna of India, wildlife zones, special conservation schemes on tiger, elephant, lion, musk deer, brow antler, crocodile, great Indian bustard etc., protection of orchid and …
