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 …
NEW DELHI/ BHOPAL: In an operation which has broken most guidelines set down by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a breeding tigress was airlifted from Kanha to Panna tiger reserve on Monday morning. According to camera-trapping evidence by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), there are no tigers or …
The state forest department is not a little amused by the hullaballoo over the planned shifting of a solitary tigress from the sprawling Kanha National Park to the Panna Tiger Reserve spread over the districts of Panna and Chhattarpur in Madhya Pradesh. The shifting became necessary to prop up the …
On 3rd March 2009, a tigress was tranquilised in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve and taken by road to Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. Although the Government of India had given permission in 2008 for two tigresses to be translocated to Panna, the recent operation was carried out without close consultation …
Bhopal: Another Project Tigerbacked sanctuary has gone the Sariska way. Six years ago, Panna National Park in Madhya Pradesh had more than 40 tigers. On Tuesday evening, the state forest department shifted a tigress from the Bandhavgarh National Park for the lone reported tiger there. But this, too, has gone …
New Delhi: First, Panna tiger reserve lost all its tigresses to poachers. Now, it may have lost its tigers as well. According to sources in the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) tracking the camera-trapping evidence, there are now no signs of tigers in the once densely populated reserve. While Madhya …
The first of the two tigresses to be shifted from Bandhavgarh Tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh would be flown to the state's Panna Tiger Reserve in an Indian Air Force helicopter this week, officials said. "The stage is all set for the trans-location of two tigresses, of which one would …
Neha Sinha New Delhi: As first reported in The Indian Express, an ongoing Wildlife Institute of India (WII) survey has revealed that there are no tigresses left in Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. The camera trapping survey commissioned by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) also indicated that there …
Panna National Park is situated in the north-central part of Madhya Pradesh, India. Landscape parameters like fragmentation, porosity, patchiness and jaxtaposition have been analysed for disturbance gradient characterization. Disturbance on biodiversity due to human activities has been studied both qualitatively and quantitatively. The species richness is highest in northern mixed …
Bhopal: Shooters of a different kind will soon be on the prowl in tiger reserves in Madhya Pradesh. Forest authorities have, in a unique experiment, invited tenders for exclusive filming rights of the proposed translocation of two tigresses to Panna tiger reserve. The first tigress will be captured in Bandhavgarh …
Girish Sharma | Bhopal The Panna Tiger Reserve here, which once had nearly 32 tigers, is now left with only a couple of big cats. In a bid to augment the number of felines at the park, the forest department has decided to shift two tigresses in the jungles by …
At the beginning of this year, a ground-breaking, new, and scientific tiger census, which took two years to complete, announced that there were 1,411 wild tigers left in India. By November, the Government had admitted that of that number, 14 tigers had been poached this year. The figure actually may …
But will that save the tiger reserve from heading the Sariska way? TWO tigresses from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve will be introduced in Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh by February 2009.
Have you noticed how the mighty automobile industry in the US is beginning to sound like the now infamous tobacco industry at the time of its collapse, taking cover behind the people it employed to whitewash its inefficiency and perhaps its sheer inappropriateness? The tobacco industry, in its last days …
Earlier this year, I called the Union budget myopic (see Down To Earth, March 31, 2008). Let me reiterate why. The Union budget did not take into account the fact the world was beginning to face new challenges, all of which were devastating, and related. One, the rising cost of …
A few years ago I wrote about a textile town called Pali, in Rajasthan, which had completely toxified its seasonal river Bandi with industrial discharge. Then, I said the real story was not about pollution but the anger of farmers whose agricultural lands were destroyed because of effluents, whose well …
This year, for once, the devastating floods of Bihar seem to have touched us. Last year, when the same region was reeling under what was said to be the worst floods in living history, we simply did not know. Media had flashed a few images, but it was more of …
Jambudwip is a tiny dot in the Bay of Bengal. A few years ago, it hit headlines when wildlife activists dragged fishermen, who used the landmass to dry their fish, to the Supreme Court. A case was filed regarding
