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 …
After nets and firecrackers, here's another novel attempt at preventing tigers from straying into Sunderbans villages — solar lights. WWF-India has launched the project — 'Lights for Stripe' — to install solar lights along the edge of villages on the fringe areas of the tiger reserve. It has been working …
The head counting of the Bengal tiger s in the Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve has completed. The number of tiger s in the reserve is expected to be higher this year compared to the last year. The counting process had begun a month ago and it was carried out in collaboration …
Every year, about hundred animals are rescued by the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) authorities in Mayurbhanj district. A majority of the animals are rescued from villagers, indicating rampant poaching. Official sources said every third day, an animal is rescued. "We rescue animals like sambar, spotted deer, wild boar and elephant …
Nepal added a new milestone in conservation by achieving zero poaching of rhinos, tigers and elephants for the year period ending in February 2014. At a time when tigers and rhinos are being rampantly poached around the world, this success resounds hope for wildlife and underscores Nepal’s commitment to build …
At a time when poaching of tigers and rhinos has been rampant worldwide‚ Nepal has achieved zero poaching of rhinos‚ tigers and jumbos KATHMANDU: Law enforcement officials have arrested more than 700 wildlife criminals in course of a year ending in February 2014. This has become possible because of increased …
Year ender (Wildlife) The year of the snake came to the rescue of its kin, the reptilian tokay gecko. The nocturnal Asian lizard, believed to be prized for its medicinal value in the illegal wildlife trade circuit, kept foresters in the southern belt busy, and the mainstream and social media …
Kerala has about 7,000 wild elephants and 100 tigers as per the latest survey on the animal population in the forests, State Forest Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said here today. The number of other wild animals has also gone up in the state, Radhakrishnan said at a function on 'Wildlife day'. …
Conservation authority cautions against outbreak of CD disease The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has issued a “most urgent” technical note (advisory) to all tiger reserves on the need to take effective steps, exercise vigil and surveillance to prevent the likely outbreak of Canine Distemper (CD) disease among tigers and …
In a bid to boost tiger conservation efforts globally, International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI) in collaboration with the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) has hosted a two-member team of Russian forest officers in India under the 'Tiger Watch Programme' that kicked off on February 24. It will …
The world’s largest mangrove forest Sundarbans considered to be the hub of biodiversity is gradually losing its biodiversity due to rampant poaching of wild animals in and around the forest. Very recently a tigress fell victim to such poaching. On February 08 this year some tourists spotted a wounded tigress …
Reliable estimates of status and population trends are critical for the conservation of large terrestrial carnivores as they play an important role in evaluating effectiveness of conservation efforts and also provide benchmark data for future management decisions. The only tiger reserve in the state of Bihar, the Valmiki Tiger Reserve …
In a move that would bolster tiger conservation in the country, the UP government has approved plans of a tiger reserve in Pilibhit, the third in the state after Dudhwa and Amangarh. Under the planned Pilibhit reserve, the Mala, Mahof, Barahi, Deoria and Haripur forest ranges will be developed as …
Even though there is euphoria over a minimum 103 tigers in the Sunderbans, a new study shows the prey abundance is supporting not more than 30 big cats in the mangroves. While the foresters have pegged a presence of at least 13,000 spotted deer, considered a hoofed prey for tiger, …
Samdrupjongkhar drangpon Ugyen Jamtsho and CFO Ugyen Namgyal sensitise villagers on the importance of the cameras First national survey of the big cat is to be carried out shortly Wildlife: A team of Bhutanese will carry out the first nationwide tiger survey in a week’s time using camera trap technique. …
Despite step-motherly treatment by the Centre, the lion population has grown steadily along with the area in which they can be found, claim officials of the state forest department. In contrast, the centre had launched various schemes and allocated massive funds for the tiger. Yet the tiger population of the …
In bid to check menace of poaching and provide better protection, the Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR), which turned 40 last year, has proposed setting up of Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF). MTR chief conservator of forests (CCF) and field director Dinesh Kumar Tyagi said a proposal in this regard was …
CENTRAL KALIMANTAN, Indonesia: Environmental group Greenpeace on Wednesday accused US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble of responsibility for the destruction of Indonesian rainforests and the habitat of endangered orangutans and tigers. In an extensive new report, Greenpeace said the company was using Indonesian palm oil from suppliers with links …
Hyderabad: There is some good news in the forests. A census carried out by analysing camera trap photographs by the Wild Life Institute of India has revealed that there are 46 adult tigers in the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger reserve. This heartening figures excludes the large Amrabad block, where the survey …
Authorities in Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve, Kanchanpur, have completed the first phase of the big cats’ count this year. The first phase of counting using ‘camera tapping’ technology is over in Barkaul. Counting in Lalpani and Hirapurphanta will begin tomorrow. The counting process will last 15 more days. Around 88 cameras …
The Review Committee set up by the National Tiger Conservation Authority of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to review the Assam Government report on the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) stretch of the National Highway-37, has underlined the need to arrest the growth of human settlement along the …
