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 …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as elephants continue to be mowed down by trains in the State, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)'s expansion plan for NH-55 has come as a further and bigger threat for the jumbos in major wildlife corridors of the State.The NHAI is upgrading its Angul-Sambalpur section, measuring …
Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court (HC) on Wednesday asked the forest department about the measures it has taken to develop forest region of Pandharkawda in order to curb problems related to man-animal conflict. The court was hearing a PIL filed by Dr Jerryl Banait over the shooting …
The report includes information collected in the last nine years by the Forest Department and WTI as a part of the Big Cat Conflict Mitigation Project. It analyses the patterns of attacks, and outlines the circumstances in which these shy animals injure or kill humans. Last week, villagers living next …
Two hills in tiger reserve Palamu count much. The hills are Burha Pahar and Jaigir Pahar. Burha pahar is ‘notorious’ while Jaigir pahar is “submissive’. Burha pahar is in Kutku range of North division while Jaigir Pahar is in the South division of Garu range. Both the hills become temporary …
Government of India provides financial assistance to all State/Union territory Governments under the various Centrally Sponsored Schemes for conservation and management of wildlife in the country. Details of funds released under these schemes viz. 'Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats', 'Project Tiger' and 'Project Elephant' during the last three years is …
Aiming to promote eco-tourism, the UP government has decided to set up 'Tiger Protection Foundations' in three forest ranges, including Dudhwa. These will not only bring these ranges on the global map but also help in empowering tribals residing in that zone. While the first such Foundation in Dudhwa (Kheri) …
Soon, the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR) will overcome a huge dichotomy — of being a tiger project sans tigers — with plans to re-stock it with big cats from other habitats. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has constituted a team last week to suggest measures for tiger recovery in …
Humans running into tigers and leopards, that left at least 156 people dead and injured in Dudhwa-Pilibhit area of Uttar Pradesh between 2000 and 2013 were due to people venturing into the forests and not the other way round, says a report. Dudhwa-Pilibhit area, which is spread over 5,000 sq …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Tiger Conservation Areas, 23/03/2018. Several milestone initiatives have been taken by the Government of India through the National Tiger Conservation Authority for conservation and protection of tiger and other wild animals and the same are at Annexure-I.
The Indonesian government has unveiled an ambitious plan to restore a heavily degraded national park that is one of the last remaining habitats on Earth for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger. The restoration of Teso Nilo National Park in Riau province, on the island of Sumatra, has been two years …
Nagpur: For the first time in the country, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is conducting security audit of 25 tiger reserves, including the four in Vidarbha. NTCA has assigned the task of audit to Global Tiger Forum (GTF), an intergovernmental international organization for conservation of tigers in the wild. A …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Population of Tigers, 09/03/2018. As per the assessment of Status of Tigers, Co-predators and Prey, 2014 using the refined / state-of-the art methodology, the tiger number has shown a 30% increase countrywide with an estimated number of 2226 (range 1945-2491) as compared to the …
NEW DELHI: As many as 122 tigers died of various reasons across the country in 2016, with 32 of the fatalities occurring in Madhya Pradesh, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. The death of these big cats were attributed to factors like, disease, infighting, natural death and poaching, among other …
Only 13 percent of the tiger conservation areas meet the global standards of Conservation Assured | Tiger Standards (CA|TS) according to a rapid survey of current management methodologies in 112 sites located in 11 tiger range countries, including India. The survey is the first and largest rapid assessment of site-based …
Panna fulfilled my dream to shoot a tiger with its reflection in water It was a freezing winter morning and the Sun had just appeared on the horizon as we entered Panna for our first safari. The forests in Madhya Pradesh during winters are bone chilling and tiger sighting isn't …
The first tiger census of Telangana came to an end on Monday with a week-long effort of volunteers and forest officials. Hyderabad: The first tiger census of Telangana came to an end on Monday with a week-long effort of volunteers and forest officials. The volunteers included doctors, software engineers and …
DEHRADUN: More than a year ago, the National Tiger Conservation Authority had recommended notifying Nandhaur wildlife sanctuary as a tiger reserve but soon after the proposal was met with opposition. Recently, chief wildlife warden DVS Khati hinted at considering the issue of notification for Nandhaur as a tiger reserve in …
THE tiger padded south. Slipping through the grey-green teak forest he wound around thickets of wild sage, cloaked behind its orange flowers. Gorges in the ruddy sandstone of the Vindhya plateau gave him respite from the midday heat. By evening, he had reached the banks of the Ken river, still …
Money invested by governments, aid agencies and funds raisedby supporters across the globe to save wild tigers have unseen benefits for Asia’s wildlife and millions of people, according to a new WWF report - Beyond the Stripes: Save tigers, Save So Much More. Tiger landscapes - which range from the …
Repeated searches of markets on the dark web have found negligible trace of illegal wildlife products. This news is troubling, conservationists say, because it suggests that traders are content to sell wildlife products on mainstream websites like eBay, where they rely on the sheer volume of transactions and lack of …
