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 …
With a view to checking the poaching of tigers, the Wildlife Conservation Trust, in association with global body, Panthera, is conducting a 'Site Security Training' for officials of the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) in two tiger reserves in Maharashtra. The workshop that got underway today at the Pench and …
Dudhwa reserve administration has sought help from the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) to increase vigil along the UP-Nepal border to check tiger poaching. The decision comes after the arrest of 10 poachers this year. After poachers' arrest, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) is directly coordinating with UP STF and Pilibhit …
About a fortnight ago, when the nationwide tiger count was released, Sonoka Sarkar, 31, was trying to come to terms with her husband’s disappearance and death. Srinivas Sarkar, 40, was dragged away by an adult tiger while he was catching crabs. The body could not be recovered, and Sonoka became …
Though there has been an increase of 1,492 sqkm in State’s covered forest area since 2009, the State has recorded death of as many as 1,194 wild animals over the same period due to various reasons with the elephant toll recording the highest at 354 followed by 13 leopards and …
Fear is a five-letter word deep inside Bijnor forests. You can sense the presence of the tiger. It's there in the terrifying sound of silence: not a chirp, no whoop, just the high-pitched eerie whistle of wind through shoulder-high grass. It's there in the pug marks, where trees close in …
Happy that their numbers have gone up, wildlife experts and even forest officials monitoring tiger trends say that if there has been a population growth of the big cats, it's not because of the government but in spite of it. Across the tiger habitats of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, what …
In an attempt to bring people closer to forests in Uttarakhand, the Harish Rawat government in last one year did try to involve them in environment conservation with its Chief Minister’s flagship Hamara Ped Hamara Dhan Yojana. The scheme is meant to encourage plantation of saplings in private lands. Forest …
Officials and experts from 13 tiger range countries including India are discussing ways to combat poaching, a multi-billion dollar industry, during a regional symposium that kicked off here this week. The five-day symposium entitled “Towards zero poaching in Asia” is aimed at promoting the launch of Asia-wide operations to combat …
Officials and experts from 13 tiger range countries including India are discussing ways to combat poaching - a multi-billion dollar industry - during a regional symposium that kicked off here this week. The five-day symposium entitled "Towards zero poaching in Asia" is aimed at promoting the launch of Asia-wide operations …
Wildlife enthusiasts were jubilant when the results of the tiger survey were announced recently. Officially, big cat population in the country went up from 1,706 in 2010 to 2,226 in 2014. These results have been interpreted to mean that conservation efforts have been a huge success. But some experts caution …
(Reuters) - Conservationists must try to reduce the demand for tiger parts in China as part of a campaign to save the big cats, wildlife experts warned at an anti-poaching conference in Kathmandu. Thousands of tigers once roamed forests in South and Southeast Asia but numbers have plummeted to about …
Nepal excels at zero poaching of tigers while India is the "tiger heavyweight" in the region in terms of recovering the number of the cats, according to organisers of an anti-poaching summit here. Nepal, which has pioneered in conserving tigers, is hosting an international anti-poaching conference beginning tomorrow. The five-day …
Trade in large cats (Panthera and Neofelis species), and indeed other wild cats, is a clear impediment to their conservation. Myanmar is an important country for cat conservation, both because of the presence of significant populations of threatened species but equally as it is positioned strategically between China, Thailand and …
Karanth says tiger numbers can be doubled. Recent cases of conflict between humans and tigers was the “price of success” of tiger conservation in the country, said wildlife scientist, Ullas Karanth, here on Monday. Speaking at the 15th Conservation Speak on ‘Tiger ecology and tiger-human conflict’, held at Sri Chamarajendra …
ATR to take up fodder plantation on 250 acres this year. Even as there is considerable joy at the increase in tiger population at the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), a trend reflected at the national level as well, wildlife activists are sounding a word of caution. While the last census …
Wildlife officials of Odisha have adopted a denial mode and rejected the National Tiger Conservation Authority’s (NTCA) report which says there has been a sharp decline in tiger population in the State with the number of big cats down to an all-time low of 28 in 2014.These experts are unable …
The all-India tiger estimation report has put the total number of tigers in the Northeast at 201, a significant increase from 148 recorded in the 2010 count. Of the 167 tigers counted in Assam, more than 125 are believed to be at the Kaziranga National Park, which is great news …
Voicing concern over reports about Odisha lagging behind as compared to the national trend of increase in tiger population, Congress today said it reflects the failure of the state government. "It is unfortunate that Odisha Government failed to take proper steps to ensure conservation of tigers whose number has dropped …
Call grows louder after Census reports presence of five big cats in Goa region PANJIM: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests’ survey, which reported the presence of five tigers in Goa’s eastern mountain range, has boosted environmentalists’ call for declaring Mhadei wildlife sanctuary, as a tiger reserve. A fresh …
Even as news of a staggering 30 per cent increase in India’s endangered tiger population is celebrated the world over, the survey methodology has drawn criticism from ecologist Ullas Karanth, director of the Centre for Wildlife Studies, one of the NGOs involved in the nationwide exercise. The ‘double sampling’ approach …
