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 …
Wildlife: About 15 royal Bengal tigers are confirmed to be roaming in the forests of the Royal Manas National Park (RMNP), forestry officials confirmed. This was found out from camera trappings set by RMNP and the Manas National Park in India in a transboundary tiger-monitoring programme initiated from February to …
There is a reason to cheer for wildlife activists and conservationists as the tiger population in the Similipal National Park has shown a good sign of growth of the National Animal. According to sources, number of the tiger in the Tiger Reserve Forest (TRF) has reached to 25 including one …
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh is thinking of notifying a new tiger reserve in the Seshachalam hills comprising Tirupati and Kadapa forest areas. Telangana already has two tiger reserves at Kawal and Amramabad. Sources in the forest department said that camera traps have to be installed to check the presence of tigers …
HC orders government to clear KNP encroachments State Environment and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain on Tuesday informed that there was no encroachment in the notified areas of the Kaziranga National Park, but admitted that the additional areas of the park are witnessing some amount of encroachment. The additional areas meant …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) in collaboration with Wildlife Crime Control Bureau would be soon launching a Management Information System (MIS) based tiger tracking system. This was stated by the Environment Minister, Prakash Javadekar while addressing the 10th meeting of the National Tiger Conservation Authority on Tuesday. MIS based …
This despite NTCA giving in-principle approval The Karnataka government is unwilling to notify the Cauvery-MM Hills Complex as a tiger reserve, though the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has given an “in-principle” nod to the proposal. NTCA member and noted tiger expert Ullas Karanth mooted a proposal to convert the …
The long-term monitoring project on tigers, co-predators in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) and the adjoining landscape' being implemented by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, has pegged the estimate of tigers as 60 in TATR, an increase by 10 tigers, and 32 leopard individuals, showing a steep increase from …
Wildlife census began in Sathyamangalam reserve forest on Monday with more than 350 people participating in the activity. "The census would be carried out over seven days. We have formed 70 teams comprising five members each. Each team will cover a distance of 8km," said K Rajkumar, district forest officer, …
The recent findings by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have revealed that tigers in disturbed areas have high-stress levels. The findings have come out in the aftermath of the Sariska tiger reintroduction exercise. It revealed that stress levels, particularly in female tigers, affect their breeding as stress was the …
The forest department is considering to implement strict measures to maintain the wildlife corridor which connects Koyna wildlife sanctuary and Chandoli national park, both part of the Sahyadri tiger reserve (STR). The 7-km corridor will be protected for safe and natural movement of tigers, leopards and other wild animals in …
One of the world’s leading orangutan experts has called on Australian food manufacturers to speed up efforts to ditch unsustainable palm oil, warning that the situation “has never been so desperate” for the threatened primates. Dr Ian Singleton, head of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program, said the apes, with the …
The forest department is planning new rules in the Sunderbans, that according to them, would check man-tiger conflict. The department, in a recent proposal, said that it's planning to discourage use of clay ovens by villagers during fishing trips. They have made it clear that the idea is to stop …
Porvorim: Environment and forests minister Alina Saldanha, while referring to the demand to declare Mhadei wildlife sanctuary as a tiger reserve, said that apprehensions have also been expressed by people living in these forests. "That is why the state government has commissioned internationally acclaimed tiger expert Ulhas Karanth to conduct …
Madhya Pradesh forest officials have again got on camera a Rajasthan tiger T-38 in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary where Gir lions from Gujarat are proposed to be shifted. Its dominance in the area has now become a cause of concern for the two states. State forest officials are more worried over its …
The four-year wait for the implementation of the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) project for Corbett Tiger Reserve is getting further delayed as the state forest department is not in complete agreement with the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) over the recruitment process of forest guards. The project was announced …
DEHRADUN: The relocation of around 181 families from Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary (SWLS) in Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) is likely to increase the tiger density there. The process of shifting these families has already started and 16 of them have been moved to Sambhalgarh in Haridwar Forest Division. Experts feel that …
Joys of a baby boom at the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) for the past couple of years might just be cut short once the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) completes its census as it is expected that the number of cubs many actually be less than claimed. The NTCA tiger …
A male tiger recently seen in the Bandipur Tiger Reserve Forest at Bandipur in Chamarajanagar district. As many as 35 tigers have died across the State in the last three years, but the Forest department officials have still not been able to establish the cause of death in many of …
A shooting range set up in Kalagarh forest range, which has a high population of tigers, elephants and leopards, is being used to train foresters since several years in violation of the Wildlife Protection Act. In fact, a two-day training workshop was held for foresters and forest guards of Corbett …
The wildlife wing of the forest department has sent a proposal worth Rs 76-lakh to National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for relocating and monitoring the Royal Bengal Tiger, which had strayed into Nandankanan in April last year. It will be shifted to Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR). Official sources said scientists …
