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 …
Eight traditional subspecies of tiger (Panthera tigris), of which three recently became extinct, are commonly recognized on the basis of geographic isolation and morphological characteristics. To investigate the species
extinction not only affects the species that disappears, but alters its entire community, changing how the community as a whole, as well as individual species, respond to ecodegradation. This is the conclusion of researchers from the us-based University of Wisconsin-Madison. Interested in understanding what happens when species go extinct, they …
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This report highlights the devastation of vital tiger habitat by mining companies for luxury items consumed in India and abroad. The report focuses on Jamwa Ramgarh Wildlife Sanctuary (JRWS), in the Aravalli Hill region of Rajasthan, which is a critical watershed forest for wildlife and local communities. It is also …
Kids for Tigers The Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris) can breathe a little easy. Over a million kids are rooting for it now, thanks to the Kids for Tigers initiative of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (intach), in collaboration with Sanctuary magazine and Britannia Industries. The …
This book works as a quick guide to the conservation of tigers in India. Relevant legislations have been discussed and the Wild Life Act, which is crucial to understanding the discussion that follows, is laid out in full. Various figures have also been put together to work as a quick …
Beast Threat Many animals, under threat from humans, have gone locally extinct. A recent report of the Wildlife Conservation Society (wcs) states that Asia's wildlife is in trouble due to indiscriminate hunting and illegal trade in animal parts. Tigers across Indo-China have disappeared. They were hunted down as trophy and …
summers are round the corner and so is the scorching heat. Most dread the thought of it. But Mahesh, a 15-year-old white tiger of the Ahmedabad-based Kamala Nehru Zoological Garden, is all set to face the wrath of the Sun in grandeur. In 2000, his dwelling was ameliorated with the …
karnataka has become the first state to draft a comprehensive "biodiversity action plan.' The plan aims at conserving and promoting sustainable use of biological diversity resources. The Karnataka State Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan is part of the national effort coordinated by the Union ministry of environment and forests and …
tiger population in Maharashtra is dwindling fast. The number of tigers increased to 417 in 1989 from 174 tigers in 1979. But the 1990s witnessed a steep decline in its population. According to the latest estimate, in 1993, there were 276 big cats in the state and in 2001, they …
• India's DNA scientists have initiated a project to clone the Indian cheetah by using the genes of its Iranian cousin. Scientists from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad will assist these DNA scientists to complete the project within five years. • Twelve persons were taken …
Poachers are the main threat to the survival of Cambodia's declining elephant and tiger populations, say conservationists. In fact, 100 wild elephants, tigers, leopards and rare bears have been killed by poachers in the past 19 months. In all, 225 large mammals were killed in three of Cambodia's 24 provinces …
the team involved in the tiger census exercise in the world's largest Tiger reserve, the Sunderbans, has had a fewclose shaves with the big cats. And the field director of Project Tiger, Pradip Vyas, ascribes this to the feline's "affinity for human flesh'. Between 1997 and 2001, more than 58 …
the Tiger Census of 2001 has revealed that the majestic tigers found in Gujarat from Valsad to Banaskantha are now extinct. After the pug marks of the tiger recorded in 1997 census, the forest department authorities have not sighted any tiger for the last four years. Habitat crunch in Gujarat …
