Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Alipurduar, Nov. 28: The forest department is planning to approach Project Elephant to help improve the habitat of the jumbos in the Buxa Tiger Reserve, where the animal
Jalpaiguri, Nov. 19: A three-day elephant census next week will focus on spotting injured animals alongside counting their numbers in the forests lying between the Mahananda wildlife sanctuary in the Terai and the Sankosh end of the Buxa Tiger Reserve in the Dooars. Forest department sources said one of the …
Chilli-based repellents have shown promise as deterrents against crop-raiding elephants in Africa. The authors experimented with ropes coated with chilli-based repellent as a cheap alternative to existing elephant crop raid deterrent methods in India.
Alipurduar, Oct. 11: The Union tourism ministry has sanctioned Rs 4 crore for several projects in the Buxa hills to attract more tourists and preserve the historical importance of the area. The funds will mainly be used to maintain and renovate the Buxa Fort and to develop trekking routes in …
Alipurduar, Oct. 4: Leopards will be counted for the first time in the Buxa Tiger Reserve through the DNA analysis of their scat in December. The census to be flagged off by Union environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh in the BTR on December 5 comes after an NGO reported …
Aaranyak, a society for biodiversity conservation, has achieved significant success in genetic research on tigers of North East India. Wildlife Genetics Laboratory of Aaranyak, based in Guwahati has successfully used DNA based analysis techniques for population estimation by using faecal samples of tigers in Buxa Tiger Reserve, in northern West …
KOLKATA, 15 June: The chief minister has proposed fresh negotiations to persuade the encraochers at Bhagawanpur mouza in South 24-Parganas to settle for a lesser amount of rehabilitation cost and make way for the new zoo. The district magistrate of South 24-Parganas had earlier proposed that the families should be …
An advisory to the state forest department has underscored the construction of underpasses or overpasses across railway tracks in the forests of north Bengal to bring down the number of animal deaths, but wildlife experts claimed the proposal was impractical. The Union ministry of forests and environment
Alipurduar, April 26: The forest department has decided not to allow the construction of a metalled road on a 3km-stretch inside the Buxa Tiger Reserve considering its biodiversity, putting to rest the
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: The Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) in north Bengal finally had its Kodak moment when a beat officer photographed a sub-adult tiger with a film camera
Alipurduar, March 31: The hazy picture of a Royal Bengal tiger in Buxa has made the authorities sit up. They have decided to go for digital cameras for better shots in future. Disappointed in getting a grainy image of the golden creature from a film camera of beat officer Manindra …
Kolkata, 11 Feb: As part of a countrywide exercise, the census of the big cats in Buxa tiger reserve in north Bengal would begin by the end of this month and continue till April, Mr RP Saini, field director of the reserve, said today.
ANIRBAN CHOUDHURI The site of the eco-tourism spot in North Poro. (Anirban Choudhuri) Alipurduar, Jan. 14: The forest department has decided to develop an eco-tourism spot at the Buxa Tiger Reserve, where eight men had died in encounters with forest guards over timber smuggling in the past five years. Villagers …
The state forest department is facing a problem to relocate the villages situated within the Buxa Tiger Reserve after villagers started getting pattas of forest land under the Forest Rights Act. The forest department had initiated a plan to make the Buxa Tiger Reserve located in Alipurduar subdivision of Jalpaiguri …
Alipurduar, Nov. 4: The PWD has floated tenders for a metalled road passing through the Buxa Tiger reserve, which, foresters said, would spoil a trekking route and expose the core area of the reserve to unwanted tourists. Recently the National Tiger Conservation Authority had in a guideline said big cat …
Three major reasons for elephant invasion in tea gardens of the Dooars have been identified and two committees have been formed to find solutions to the problem. A meeting attended by forest officers and estate managers at Rajabhatkhawa on Saturday discussed the elephant menace and decided to form eco clubs …
