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 …
Dehra Dun, September 7 Carcass of a young male elephant was today recovered from the Najibabad forest area in Uttar Pradesh barely at a distance of 4 km from the Uttarakhand Motadhang area falling in the Lansdowne forest division. The state forest officials found a carcass of the elephant aged …
In A fillip to tiger conservation, the National Tiger Conservation Authority has given in-principle approval for four more tiger reserves in different states in the country. Arrested poacher claims he killed Corbett tiger near parkTwo Asiatic bears killed in Nagaland park. Two wildlife rescue centres being built in Uttarakhand
Neha Sinha Corbett, August 8: Tourism and its ensuing commercialisation are gradually emerging as big threats to the Corbett Tiger Reserve. Around 40 resorts have come up in the tiger corridor leading up to the reserve and just last month, a tiger was hit on this corridor by a tourist …
Bhima Bawariya was arrested in 2005 following a seizure of tiger parts, is now out on bail This Monday, a team from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) raided a house in Old Gurgaon and recovered a 14-foot long tiger carcass. The tiger had clearly been poached recently, but the …
At the end of the tourist season on June 30, the Corbett Tiger Reserve recorded a remarkable increase in the number of tourist arrivals. Between October 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008, the reserve earned Rs 2.86 cr as revenue and 1,77,399 tourists visited it, said CTR director Rajiv Bhartari. …
Efforts of Corbett National Park officials and the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) have helped save lives of at least three tigers of the Corbett National Park. According to officials of ministry of environment and forest, the park authorities received some information about dubious movements of a person from Bawariya …
Elephants and human beings in Rajaji National Park in northern India are increasingly arriving into conflict because of the conversion of elephant's natural habitat into agricultural areas. Besides, railway track which passes through the park area, national highways, anthropogenic activities etc are restricting frequent movement of elephants within their home …
The new state of Uttarakhand in north-west India contains grassland habitats that are potentially suitable for establishing new populations of the one-horned rhinoceros. Dhikala and Paterpani grasslands in Corbett Tiger Reserve and Surai grasslands in the Terai East Forest Division provide the last opportunity for the reintroduction programme in this …
Initial results of a census conducted by Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) indicate far lesser number of tigers in India than was previously recorded. The results were presented on May 23. Data for the present census was collected from 16 of India's 28 tiger reserves and their surrounding areas. …
Rajaji-Corbett Tiger Conservation Unit (RCTCU) in north-west India, is one of the eleven Level I Tiger Conservation Units (TCU) identified in the Indian subcontinent for the long term conservation of the tiger. Between November 1999 and March 2000, we evaluated the status of tiger and leopard by counting the number …
You are working on the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR)... Not really. I am working on the Corbett Binsar Nainital Ecotourism Initiative. We are trying to develop a framework in conservation and ecotourism. We are working in the area rimmed by ctr, Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary and Nainital. What is the project …
Acting on an affidavit filed by the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) and the Corbett Foundation against a proposed highway through Corbett Tiger Reserve, the Supreme Court (SC) recently ordered the state of Uttaranchal to submit a revised proposal to the Union ministry of environment and forests. The SC …
the much talked about move against the poachers in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (ctr) is in danger of falling apart at its most crucial juncture. The Union government has since February 2001, stopped payment to the 275-member task force engaged by the ctr authorities to patrol the reserve. Its members …
The Supreme Court has stayed a project of the Uttaranchal government to build a highway from Kotdwar to Ramgarh, following allegations that the proposed road will pass through the Corbett Tiger Reserve and destroy thousands of trees. Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, has also requested the prime minister to block the …
ramnagar, February 16, 2001. The sleepy headquarters of the Corbett Tiger Reserve (ctr) looks like a war zone. The place is swarming with gun-toting forest guards and top forest officials of Uttaranchal, all in a flurry of activity. The buzzwords are
