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 Tiger Panthera tigris is a large and wide-ranging cat that occupies a variety of habitats, where it generally serves as the top predator. The tiger is also a flagship species(Dinerstein et al. 2007), and attention to protecting tiger populations and their habitats in Asian eco-regions has increased over the …
NAGPUR: In perhaps a first, animal rights and wildlife activists have moved the Supreme Court to stop the shooting of a problem tigress (named T1) from Pandharkawda in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra. From June 1, 2016 to August 28 this year, tigers have killed 13 villagers in the Ralegaon tehsil …
Calcutta: Five hundred pairs of all-weather night-vision cameras will be installed across the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve and South 24-Parganas division for the second round of tiger census in the mangroves post monsoon. The cameras will be installed in the western part of the national park and Sajnekhali range in the …
Nagpur: Casting aspersions on committee headed by Brahmapuri deputy conservator of forest (DyCF) Kulraj Singh on capture of Sindewahi tiger (C1), the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court held that National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) standard operating procedure (SOP) was not followed while caging the so-called problem animal. The two-year-old …
BAREILLY: At a time when tiger census is underway across the country, a report by Association of Indian Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians (AIZWV) has revealed that Uttar Pradesh lost 146 tigers between 1987 and 2016. According to this report, UP had a total of 117 tigers in 2014. Annual counts …
Marked as an occasion to raise public awareness and support for tiger conservation, Global Tiger Day — also known as the International Tiger Day — will be celebrated on Sunday. Srinivas Reddy, chief conservator of forests, Melghat Tiger Reserve, in a statement issued Saturday, said Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Bhutan, …
BHOPAL: After its first successful inter-state translocation of a tiger, Madhya Pradesh forest department on Wednesday captured and shifted a tigress to Satkosia tiger reserve in Odisha. This time, a two-year-old tigress has been relocated from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Umaria district, said sources. A week ago, tiger MB2 was …
BHOPAL: In a successful operation, a tiger was captured and translocated from Kanha national park in Madhya Pradesh to the Satkosia tiger reserve in Odisha on Wednesday. Officials claim this is the first time that a tiger from any tiger reserve has been sent to another state for reintroduction. The …
Chandrapur: Highlighting the increasing number of wild animals being killed on Chandrapur-Mul stretch of newly declared national highway No. 930, NGO Eco-Pro took out a 43-km-long march on Thursday. Over 50 volunteers of the NGO marched full 43km in a day demanding mitigation measures on Mul-Chandrapur road that has turned …
HARIDWAR: An analysis of the animal remains found stuffed inside a bag recovered from Rajaji Tiger Reserve in March by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has revealed that of the five samples examined, three were of leopard and two were tiger remains. The revelation has added a new twist …
New app to avoid human error in estimating big cats’ presence, tribal groups participate Amid signs of the proliferation of the big cats in Andhra Pradesh, the third phase of the fourth All-India Tiger Estimation (AITE) is being taken up in full swing in the vast tiger landscape spread over …
Pilibhit: The Pilibhit tiger reserve lost its fifth big cat in two months when the rotten carcass of a tiger was recovered from a spot barely 200 meters away from the Barahi forest range on Sunday afternoon. Since 1 March 19 this year, five tigers have died in the reserve. …
Pilibhit: In a first, Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) will have a fully equipped rapid rescue team to conduct operations in a situation of man-tiger conflict. The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) on Monday has provided PTR with a rapid rescue team (RRT) comprising a biologist, one sociologist, one veterinary surgeon …
Annual exercise:The census will also analyse the prey base of the big cats. The data will also be used to study habitat share by co-predators like leopard and hyena The pre-monsoon or the summer session of the ongoing tiger census for 2018 will begin on May 20, covering tiger reserves …
KERI: The recently concluded six-day field exercise of the All India Tiger Estimation has confirmed the presence of the big cat in the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary. Forest officials have now launched the second phase of the tiger census by installing camera traps at various locations from May 7, an exercise …
Plans to estimate tiger population in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal is in jeopardy as the neighbouring tiger range states have so far expressed their inability to make budgetary provisions for the same. Estimation exercise that has to be conducted under the …
Nainital: In a first, Uttarakhand forest department has included Kedarnath, Nainital and parts of Pithoagarh and Tehri forest divisions in the ongoing tiger census. Officials of the forest department said that since tiger population has been spotted in these areas in the past three years, these parts of the state …
Estimation will kick off on Tuesday, when forest department officials, along with 77 volunteers, will begin a field survey. The census takes into account the entire spectrum of wildlife found in Goa, except birds and reptiles. “It is basically a census of the tiger, its co-predators and prey, which will …
A green ministry panel is going to do a field inspection to assess the impact of a proposed road from Kolhapur to Sindhudurg on ecologically sensitive areas of the Western Ghats and the Radhanagari tiger corridor, The tiger corridor is the chief passage connecting tiger source population in Goa and …
Member secretary of the Central Zoo Authority raised various issues related to tiger safaris The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) may revisit guidelines on establishment of tiger safaris in the country, according to minutes of an official meeting. The meeting was held in Delhi last month mainly to discuss tiger …
