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 …
Far from being a safe heaven, Bhubaneshwar's Nandankanan Zoological Park has become a graveyard for the tigers. In the past one year, more than 15 tigers have died in the park. On July 5, 2001, Bisakha, a 20-year-old Royal Bengal tigress died of pneumonia after a prolonged illness. "Heavy rainfall …
The multinational oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has decided to shelve its plan to explore oil in the Sunderbans of Bangladesh. Sunderbans are an important habitat for the endangered Royal Bengal tigers. "This area should be preserved and we will not disturb it,' said Mark Moody-Stuart, chairperson of Shell. However, …
as india prepares for its eighth tiger census, controversy mars the very credibility of the exercise. While some conservationists support the old method of counting the tiger population through pugmarks, another group suggests the use of sophisticated cameras to arrive at an close estimate. The debate got precipitated when Union …
The death of wild animals in a zoo is, indeed a shocking phenomenon. On one hand the government and international agencies spend crores of rupees to save the tiger and on the other we murder 12 tigers due to gross negligence. The highly qualified doctors who vaccinated the tigers at …
THE recent census at the Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, shows that there is a fairly steady and healthy population of endangered species in the area and some species have shown considerable increase in numbers from last year. This is a bit of good news after the spurt …
Project Tiger has been the first major conservation scheme in India. It has gone through phases of vex and vane. All eyes are set on the fate of charismatic tiger. Every possible effort is being made to save the tiger in spite of various odds. Ironically, demand for tiger parts …
A division bench of the Supreme Court has directed the Central Zoo Authority to notify the apex court about the steps taken to preserve the tiger population in various zoos and reserve forests. "It is extremely distressing to know that tigers are being killed in government zoos under the very …
sakhi, the thirteen-month-old Bengal tigress of the Nehru Zoological Park ( nzp ) in Hyderabad was recently killed due to the careless attitude of the zoo authorities. Poachers intruded into the npz with the help of the zoo staff and killed Sakhi. They then skinned her and dumped the carcass …
The Orissa government's decision to donate 12 tigers and 15 African lions of the Nandankanan zoo to the other states has proved fatal for one of the lions. The lion which was being transported to Visakhapatnam, along with four other lions and five tigers, died on the way. According to …
people of villages in and around the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar district of Rajasthan have taken a vow to protect wildlife, mainly tigers, by joining hands with the forest department. A decision to form a public body called the Sariska Sansad (Sariska Parliament), which involve the village communities as …
Wildlife experts studying Thailand's tigers have reported that fewer than 150 tigers are left in the Khai Yai National Park and poachers are fast targeting the surviving ones. The poachers, mostly poor villagers from settlements surrounding the national park, are hunting the tiger on a large-scale, as their body parts …
The Supreme Court has asked the government to submit the probe report and action taken report (ATR) relating to the recent death of 12 tigers at the Nandankanan Zoo in Orissa. The ATR should be supported by additional inspector-general (wildlife) S C Sharma's affidavit. The direction came in response to …
nandankanan, immortalised as a symbol of life and love in Oriya literature and movie songs, stinks of death. On July 5th, this zoological park, situated on the outskirts of Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, became the cremation site for 12 Royal Bengal tigers, which died after contracting tripanosomiasis , a parasitic infection. The …
Why are tigers kept in zoos? Is it because people like to see pretty wild animals or is it part of a programme to manage wildlife and save it from extinction. The people who could answer this question, the conservationist lobby and the Project Tiger people are surprisingly silent. They …
Scientists at the Australian Museum in Sydney say that they are close to bringing back the extinct Tasmanian tiger to life. The animal became extinct in 1936. According to a report in London's The Telegraph , the scientists have been working on this project for over a year, after they …
judging by the rapid rate of decline in the tiger population, India will no longer hold the distinction of being home to the largest number of tigers in the world. To make matters worse, the top authority does not show even the slightest concern. In yet another effort to "save …
death is no stranger to the inmates of Jodhpur zoo in Rajasthan. But the demise and hurried cremation of a lion two months ago has created ripples in the city. While wildlife enthusiasts claim there is something fishy about the entire incident, local journalists claim there is a mystery surrounding …
members of the Lisu tribe of Myanmar have started poaching tigers in Arunachal Pradesh's Namdapha National Park, say reports in local newspapers. Tiger parts have a huge market in China as well as in other far-eastern countries. It is estimated that one tiger skin can fetch around us $20,000. The …
it is difficult to maintain any objectivity in research when the subject becomes an object of love. But born naturalist Saroj Raj Choudhury, an Indian Forest Service officer and the first field director of the Simlipal National Park, accomplishes this difficult task in his book . The book's account of …
known for its lion safaris, the Bannerghatta National Park in Karnataka will now be home to 100 lions and tigers. They will be acquired from circuses. This follows the Supreme Court ban on the use of animals for public entertainment. About 70 lions and 30 tigers will be housed in …
