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 paces back and forth in its cage, groaning mournfully. A second big cat sleeps soundly in the corner, while a third stares blankly at the bars. Next to this cage is another containing three more tigers, and after that three more cages: a line of small pens, each …
On Monday, the Nepalese government set fire to more than 4,000 items of confiscated wildlife parts in an attempt to demonstrate zero tolerance for the illegal wildlife trade. The stockpile included parts from 48 species, including 67 tiger skins, 418 common leopard skins, 354 elephant tails, 15 bear gallbladders, 357 …
Bengaluru: With 30 years devoted for conservation of forests in Karnataka, electrical engineer-turned-wildlife biologist Sanjay Gubbi needs no introduction. Recently, he was honoured with the prestigious Whitley Award (Green Oscars) for his service in wildlife preservation and expanding the protected areas of Karnataka by 6.5 lakh acres. Fresh from a …
JAIPUR: Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) is now officially the 'undisputed king' of all tiger reserves in the country. For the financial year 2016-17, the reserve was the highest revenue grosser at Rs 23.06 crore, according to forest department statistics. Compared to this, Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) earned Rs 5 …
An 18-month-old tiger, which was rescued from Kota range of Ramnagar forest division on May 1, 2017 died on Sunday. Officials of the forest department told TOI that the tiger succumbed to dehydration, injuries and infection. With this, the number of big cats which died in Uttarakhand this year has …
KOLKATA: Six tigers would be relocated to Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) in north Bengal from neighbouring Assam as part of a plan for augmentation of tiger population in the reserve which was approved by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). "The technical committee of the NTCA has given its approval …
Massive effort to save the third infected cub at Bandhavgarh tiger reserve (BTR) Come a cropper with its death on Wednesday morning. Two cubs had died earlier. BTR director Mrudul Pathak said that the third cub died around 10.30 am. "Though no laboratory has confirmed the cause of infection yet, …
परिस्थितिजन्य साक्ष्यों के आधार पर कार्बेट टाइगर रिजर्व (सीटीआर) में 20 से ज्यादा बाघों के शिकार की आशंका जताई है। देहरादून, [जेएनएन]: उत्तराखंड में पिछले साल हुई बाघ की छह खालों व हड्डियों की बरामदगी के मामले में विभागीय हीलाहवाली का जिन्न फिर बाहर निकल आया है। 'आपरेशन आई ऑफ …
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand forest minister Harak Singh Rawat has directed the head of the Forest Force (HOFF) to initiate an inquiry into the tiger poaching case, asking it to give the report within one month. The matter pertains to seizure of five tiger skins and 130 kg tiger bones belonging to …
Almost half of the Unesco world heritage sites designated for their importance to nature are threatened by the illegal wildlife trade, a WWF report has said. Poaching, illegal logging and fishing, and the trafficking of rare species are plaguing 45% of the world’s most precious natural areas, the report from …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Conservation of Endangered Species, 14/03/2017. Census of major flagship species is undertaken at the State-level by the respective State/Union Territory Governments periodically. However census of tiger and elephant is undertaken at the national level once every four and five years respectively. State-wise estimated population …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Tiger Population, 14/03/2017. The country level tiger estimation using the refined methodology is done once in four years. As per the assessment of the Status of Tigers, Co-predators and Prey, 2014 using the refined methodology, the tiger number has shown 30% increase countrywide with …
Odisha has at least 40 Royal Bengal Tigers (RBT) and 318 leopards in different tiger reserves and forests. This was informed by Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Keshari Arukha in a written reply to a question from Ramesh Chandra Chau Patnaik (BJD). While the highest number of 26 RBTs live …
देश में वर्ष 1995 से अब तक के परिदृश्य को देखें तो हर साल ही औसतन 46 बाघों को शिकारियों व तस्करों ने निशाना बनाया। ऐसे में बाघों पर संकट बढ़ गया है। देहरादून, [जेएनएन]: देश में भले ही बाघों की संख्या में इजाफा हो रहा हो, मगर शिकारियों की …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Counting of Wildlife Animals, 07/02/2017. Census of major flagship species is undertaken at the State-level by the respective State/Union Territory Governments periodically. However census of tiger and elephant is undertaken at the national level once every four and five years respectively. State-wise comparative estimated …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Loss of tigers and cubs in the country, 06/02/2017. The details of tiger deaths including cubs in the country, State-wise and year-wise during the last three years are at Annexure-I. The Government of India through the National Tiger Conservation Authority has taken a number …
The Environment Ministry is proposed to be allocated Rs 2,675.42 crore in the 2017-18 Union Budget, an increase of Rs 399.42 crore over the last fiscal. In 2016-17, the ministry had got a hike of over Rs 600 crore, about 39 per cent over the previous year and a budget …
Six big cats have died in Karnataka since January 3 A tiger that was found dead at Kumatoor near Srimangala in Virajpet taluk of Kodagu district on Sunday. Karnataka has lost six tigers since January 3, 2017, and the way the forest department officials have handled the issue has not …
Karnataka has over 406 tigers in the wild.Karnataka has over 406 tigers in the wild. At least 18 tiger deaths were recorded in Karnataka last year, the second highest in the country after Madhya Pradesh (30), according to data of the state forest department. But 2017 may just be the …
Nagpur: In a major move to protect tigers, Melghat is among the 13 tiger reserves in the country to get approval from director general of civil aviation (DGCA), ministry of home affairs (MoHA) and ministry of defence (MoD) to implement monitoring with the help of drones, commonly known as unmanned …
