Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
New villages springing along border From our Correspondent JORHAT, May 12: The alarming growth of human population along the border areas of Kaziranga National Park has taken a serious turn during the last few years. The growth has been alarming during the last decade, sources said. According to an official …
A recent survey has found that the famous Kaziranga National Park in Assam has the highest tiger density in the world, but conservationists have warned that it could be an indicator of habitat destruction and suggested remedial measures. 'Aaranyak', an environment watchdog, in collaboration with Assam Forest Department in a …
JORHAT, May 11: With the brutal killing of a female rhino at the Bahbeel area under Agoratoli range in the Kaziranga National Park, security has been beefed up in the national park. During the last few years, poachers have been making good use of the Agoratoli range of the park …
Guwahati: Encouraged by the recent finding of highest tiger density in famous Kaziranga National Park, the Assam Forest Department has constituted the country
JORHAT, April 30: Breaking all previous records, the Kaziranga National Park (KNP), has recorded the highest number of visitors to the park in the current 2009-10 season. According to the information recieved from the office of the District Forest Officer (DFO), Kaziranga the National Park has recorded as many as …
Notwithstanding the unusually high tiger concentration in Kaziranga National Park as revealed in a recent camera-trap exercise, experts feel that the development also has darker shades which, if left unaddressed, could imperil the park
Sushanta Talukdar Guwahati: The Kaziranga National Park, famous for one-horned rhino, has the highest density of tigers in the world. This was revealed in a report titled
Guwahati: Kaziranga National Park in Assam has the highest density of tigers in the world with 32 tigers per 100 sq km, according to a study. Releasing the study report, Assam Forest and Environment Minister Rockybul Hussain said,
A joint study carried out by Aaranyak, a society for biodiversity conservation in Northeast India, and the Assam Forest Department, has shown that Kaziranga National Park has the highest density of wild tigers in the world. The report is the result of a study carried out during January-March 2009.
The North-east is one of the two biodiversity hotspots in the country, the other being the Western Ghat region, and therefore, it is essential to ensure ecological security in the region while planning for its economic development, said Dr Bibhab Kumar Talukdar, secretary-general of Aaranyak on Saturday. Addressing a seminar …
JORHAT, April 17: Authorities of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) and officials of the State Forest Department are upbeat about the high population density of Royal Bengal tigers as revealed by the census conducted jointly by Wildlife Institute of India, Dehra Dun and Statebased NGO Aaranyak recently. According to the …
A non-government society for bio-diversity conservation, Aaranyak, has found that the sprawling Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam has 32 highly-endangered tigers per 100 sq km area within the park and the figure is much more as compared to 20 in the Corbett National Park. Tiger density in other reserves …
Jairam Ramesh Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said preliminary reports from the second nationwide tiger census, currently underway, were very encouraging and that Kaziranga in Assam could show an increase in tiger density. Evidence of the endangered Indian tiger had been found even in the Naxal-dominated reserve areas, which he …
Sushanta Talukdar Kaziranga: Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Monday said Kaziranga has brought fresh hopes on tiger conservation in the country with the National Park registering a density of about 30 tigers over 100 sq. km. of the park, which he described to be the highest …
