Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
Fifty direct sightings reported during the recent census increasing tribe? The sighting of cubs with mother in various forests during this time, according to the officials, indicates the presence of breeding tigers. With more than 50 direct sightings reported in the Karnataka tiger reserves and wildlife sanctuaries during the National …
Kozhikode: The phase-I of the tiger enumeration ended in the state on Monday. As many as 2,088 officials were involved in the eight-day exercise that covered the Periyar Tiger Reserve, Parambikulam-Aliyar and 11 other wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests. Senior officials of the forest department expressed satisfaction over the census, …
Luckiest Member Of The 800-Strong Census Team Says There’s No Adventure Sport To Beat The Thrill Bangalore: There is nothing that distinguishes Gopala Krishnaiah, 60, from the nearly 800 volunteers who were part of the tiger census that concluded on Monday. But the oldest of the volunteers was blessed with …
The second phase of the tiger enumeration exercise will commence in the first week of January and entail camera-trapping of tigers and leopards in Bandipur. The first phase of the census concluded on Monday with the volunteers dispersing after six days of data collection pertaining to carnivores, herbivores, and the …
WCD: The wildlife conservation division will conduct the first nationwide tiger survey next month, making Bhutan the fourth country to conduct such a survey using camera traps. Studies done in the past were limited to specific locations, which did not give the whole picture of the big cat’s presence in …
Kozhikode: Forest officials conducting tiger census in the interior forests of Wayanad, amidst reports of frequent Maoist sightings in the region, fled for safety after hearing a gunshot from close quarters on Thursday. The incident took place at Velleripadam under Mundakai section of the Meppadi forest range at 11.40 am. …
'Huli,' developed by Forest department helps consolidation of data on the trail: A Forest department official with the tablet used for tiger census in BRT Tiger Reserve, Chamarajanagar district. The tiger census in Karnataka has gone hi-tech with the Forest department making use of indigenously developed “Huli” software for the …
The tiger census has kicked off in the state and there’s hope it’ll show that conservation efforts have paid off. But Karnataka has been losing more tigers to poachers than anywhere else in the country. According to information of the ministry of environment andforests(MoEF),Karnataka, which has a tiger population between …
Move to check influence by VIPs to accommodate their candidates Increased interest in wildlife has seen a rush of volunteers to count big cats. The National Tiger Census 2013, commencing on Wednesday at Bandipur and Naghole tiger reserves, has drawn enthusiastic volunteers in their droves. The forest department, in order …
The Forest Department on Tuesday deployed 48 teams into the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve for undertaking tiger census in the seven ranges in Sathyamangalam and Hasanur divisions on an expanse of 1,400 square kilometres. Sixty three volunteers among the field staff were oriented on the methodology of enumerating the presence of …
Population of panthers, other carnivores, and herbivores to be ascertained As the integrated census of tigers living in Kalakkad–Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) commenced on Tuesday, a group of volunteers scanning an area at Kalakkad division collected the pugmark of a big cat. When the volunteers and students of Sarah Tucker …
It is based on ‘direct-transect count’ methodology A two-day census operation to enumerate wildlife commenced at Point Calimere wildlife sanctuary to coincide with the all-India tiger census in tiger habitats across the country. The census is being held in all protected areas and buffer zones to ascertain the species count …
2,000 Officials Deployed As Part Of Nation-Wide Exercise A team of 50 forest department officials, scouting for the presence of tigers, entered the dense forests of the Periyar Tiger Reserve on Monday morning and were in the reserve till sun down. They will begin afresh on Tuesday, foraying into the …
The third synchronized all India tiger census that is held once in every four years will begin on Monday. For the next seven days, wildlife activists and forest lovers will traverse tiger habitats across the country and collect images and pug marks of big cats. Volunteers and forest staff would …
The last survey had identified 100 tigers in the 1,200-sq km Bandipur Tiger Reserve As many as 700 people have volunteered for the most-awaited tiger census to be conducted across all tiger reserves and protected forest areas in south India. Karnataka has an average population of 300 tigers, the highest …
The forest department has started its preparation for counting tigers at Katarniaghat reserved forest area. The department would start the work from January 6. About 80 cameras would be installed in the forest area besides two teams on patrol. Katarniaghat reserved forest area is spread across 551 square meters. Tigers …
Stage is set for the All India Tiger Census a quadrennial event where not only the big cats (tigers) are counted even the other carnivores and herbivores in the parks along with habitat is surveyed. Though state tiger project officers survey the tigers every year, this is a national Tiger …
Officials are gearing up for the conduct of a census by the National Tiger Conservation Authority scheduled to begin on December 16. Field Director of Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Rajiv K. Srivasatava, told The Hindu that more than 400 people, including 180 forest staff, would be involved in the census works …
Synchronised data collection will begin simultaneously in four Southern States The synchronised phase one data collection for tiger census will begin simultaneously in the four Southern States – Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnata – on November 17. K. Sankar, Senior Scientist and Research Coordinator, Wildlife Institute of India …
Dudhwa reserve is gearing up for the tiger census amid hope that it will throw up an increased count of the royal animal. The census, to begin in November first week, will count the number of tigers as well as herbivores to work out the predator-prey ratio inside the Dudhwa …
