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 …
The Rajasthan government plans to shift some tigers from the Ranthambore National Park to other parks in the State, following an increase in the number of big cats and territorial fights between them, an official said on Sunday. At least five tigers have been killed in territorial fights among the …
LUCKNOW: The roar of the tiger is getting louder at the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, with the recent census revealing a rise in tiger population by eight to 10 % in its core area. The last census, held in 2010, had indicated about 80 tigers in the core area of the …
The government will streamline entry of visitors and local people into the Saundarbans for protecting its bio-diversity, especially the endangered Royal Bengal Tigers. Environment and forest ministry officials told New Age that they were at the final stage of preparing a visitor’s policy aiming at restricting entries of visitors into …
Despite substantial conservation investments by governments and international agencies, the existence of tigers in the wild is still threatened. The main threats to the survival of wild tigers are poaching, prey depletion, and habitat degradation and fragmentation. All international trade in tiger parts has been prohibited since 1975, with China …
With leopard-human conflict rising in some of the villages bordering the Rajaji national park, the field director of the national park has stressed on the need for policy decisions to ensure a proper solution to this problem. A leopard was killed in the Aurangabad village bordering Rajaji by villagers earlier …
Lesser-known wild species like pangolins, monitor lizards, mongoose, spiny-tailed lizards, and mariner turtles are falling prey to poaching and quietly vanishing from the country, wildlife experts say. "While the threat posed by illegal wildlife trade to tiger and Indian rhinoceros are well publicised, many of India's lesser known species are …
BHUBANESWAR: The Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) authorities have zeroed in on two sites in the habitat to release a Royal Bengal Tiger that is currently housed at Nandankanan. The STR authorities have sent the details to the state government. Since the tiger is likely to be released in the wild …
The crown prince of the oil-rich Mideast emirate of Abu Dhabi and other international donors committed a combined $80 million on Sunday to fund the conservation of tigers and other wild cats whose survival is under threat. The donors announced the 10-year funding effort, a partnership with New York-based cat …
Assam Environment and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain on Sunday formally released the “White Paper on Wildlife Conservation in Assam” at the Assam Secretariat here. Addressing a press conference after releasing the white paper, Hussain said, “The increasing population trends recorded in the recent censuses of major animal species namely tiger, …
The Kosi River corridor is situated in the Nainital and Almora districts of Uttarakhand and connects the Corbett Tiger Reserve with the forests of Ramnagar Forest Division. This corridor serves as a vital link between the source population of tigers in Corbett and the adjoining forest areas and enables them …
In March 2014 we celebrated the fantastic news that no rhinos, elephants or tigers had been poached in Nepal for a whole year. It’s the second year of zero poaching in Nepal – the first was in 2011. This was a particularly remarkable achievement for Nepal at a time when …
Poachers killed yet another tigress - fourth in the last two years - with an electric trap at the buffer zone of Bandgavgarh National Park (BNP) in Umeria district of Madhya Pradesh late on Sunday night. Carcass of adult tigress - BT2- was found near Khitoli range by the patrolling …
The forest departments of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh have chalked out a strategy for undertaking joint efforts and share information to strengthen tiger protection in the Corbett tiger landscape in Uttarakhand and tiger range areas in neighbouring UP. Various decisions were taken during the meeting of Forest Department officials of …
The Chitwan National Park (CNP) has started research on tiger activities including reproduction from a special way. The park started research with the support from different donor agencies. Assistant Conservation Officer at the Park, Tikaram Poudel, said that the park has started research on tiger activities in the park through …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a statutory body under ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) monitoring tiger reserves, has gone against its own guidelines by recommending 138.12 sq km Bor tiger reserve, 60km from here in Wardha district. It will be the smallest tiger reserve in the country. The …
NAGPUR: The machan(waterhole) census carried out in various sanctuaries, national parks and tiger reserves in Vidarbha thrilled the volunteers with a record 66 individual tiger sightings apart from other wildlife. Of the total tiger 66 sightings, 29 were in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), 24 in parks under Pench Tiger Reserve …
Hearing on a Public Interest Litigation on Thursday, the Uttarakhand High Court has directed the State Government to strengthen the State Forest Department’s anti-poaching cell while leaving on the Chief Minister, the decision regarding complaints against the principal chief conservator of forests and chief wildlife warden SS Sharma remaining apathetic …
AJMER: After continuous terrorizing of residents by panthers in border villages of Ajmer district, the forest department on Wednesday started a 24-hour census on eighty water holes to spot the actual number of wild cats in the area. Different teams in the morning moved to the spots for the census …
