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 …
Nagpur: With the arrest of two tribals, a major tiger poaching racket involved in trafficking bones, skins and other body parts has been exposed in Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR), Maharashtra, on Tuesday. Pench officials seized over 12kg tiger bones and 14 nails from accused Devidas Tukaram Kumre (40) and Babulal …
NAGPUR The number of tigers in Maharashtra's Pench Tiger Reserve has increased to 44 this year, as compared to 31 in 2016. The increase of 13 tigers was recorded in East Pench (Sillari), Chorbahuli, Saleghat and Deolapar areas of Mansinghdeo sanctuary, and Paoni and Nagalwadi. Officials said that of the …
Nagpur: Over 156 households have been connected to the solar mini-grid project in Ghatpendhri in the buffer zone of Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Maharashtra. It is the first village in the buffer zone of any tiger reserve in the country to get a renewable energy project known as Kiran …
Alleging violation of laws in construction of tiger safari in Madhya Pradesh’s Pench national park, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the apex body for tiger conservation, expressed fears on Wednesday that it would expose the animal to poaching. The national park is famous as home to “Mowgli” — the …
Madhya Pradesh has lost yet another tiger on Sunday. This time, it's the famous Bandhavgarh National Park (BNP) tiger with blue tinge in its eyes -fondly referred to as 'Blue eyed tiger'. While forest officials are silent on the matter, sources said the 12-year-old big cat died due to drug …
BHOPAL: A decomposed carcass of an adult tiger was found in Gumtara range of the Pench Tiger Reserve in Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh on Sunday during a routine patrolling by forest officials. While officials concerned could not be contacted, insiders say that the tiger has been poisoned to death. Autopsy …
Nagpur: Adding a wild touch to weddings, tying the knot at luxurious resorts surrounding the core tiger habitat has become the newest fad for many Nagpurians. But little heed is being paid to the massive disturbance and harm that is caused to wildlife by such celebrations. Loud music, DJs, laser …
Nagpur: Here is one more proof of how important the Kanha-Pench, Navegaon-Nagzira, and Bor-Melghat wildlife corridors are from conservation point of view. A latest study has shown they have the highest movement of tigers in central Indian landscape. These are the very corridors that both NH7 and NH6 cut and …
Private companies can now take up nature conservancy projects to boost ecotourism on private land surrounding tiger reserves and wildlife sanctuaries under corporate social responsibility (CSR). With this, Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to announce such a policy. One of the basic aims is to bring …
NAGPUR: In a bid to know connectivity of large carnivores at landscape level, the wildlife wing of the Maharashtra forest department has approved a mega project on scat DNA analysis of tigers, leopards, sloth bears and dholes. "The Rs74 lakh project will be implemented by Wildlife Institute of India (WII), …
The Madhya Pradesh Ecotourism Board's (MPETB) decision to set up three tiger safaris in the buffer zone of Pench, Bandhavgarh and Kanha tiger reserves has no mandatory sanction from National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Central Zoo Authority (CZA) and subsequently the Supreme Court. Though a proposal in this regard has …
Announcing the decision to give wildlife clearance to NH7, environment minister Prakash Javadekar said, "The process of four-laning NH7 has moved ahead. Tiger The petitioner in the case has argued that the project will hit Kanha-Pench tiger corridor PTI After repeatedly submitting before National Green Tribunal (NGT) and through its …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) informed the National Green Tribunal on Wednesday that they will be submitting a plan on the mitigation measures for movement of animals across NH7 in two weeks. The NGT has been hearing a matter …
The principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi on Monday blasted the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for not filing its reply in NH7 road widening between Mansar and Khawasa near the Pench Tiger Reserve. On Monday, Srushti Paryavaran Mandal, a city-based NGO which moved NGT against road …
NAGPUR: Ever thought football can bring about a change in environment protection? Well, here is a second to none chance for kids to learn all about environment conservation and sustainable development by just kicking a ball. To raise awareness about importance of protecting nature and planet Earth on World Environment …
Finally, after five years, the unified control of 666.54 sqkm buffer zone of Pench tiger reserve has been brought under the control of field director of the tiger reserve. The buffer zone of Pench was notified on September 29, 2010. However, it was not taken over by Pench field director …
After six long years, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on Tuesday finally gave the state forest department the go ahead to release one of the two tigresses, kept in an enclosure in Pench Tiger Reserve, back in the wild. The other will be sent to a zoo. Three tigers …
Censuring the Maharashtra Forest Department for its dilly dallying tactics, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Thursday sternly directed it to submit its 'Forest (Wildlife) Conservation Plan' to National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) within a week. The stringent directives came when the government pleader said the forest …
The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to hand over its wildlife protection plan to the state forest department for study and also deposit Rs4 crore for its implementation. "We're interested in the protection of forest and wildlife," a division bench …
NAGPUR: As countries celebrate 'International Tiger Day' on Tuesday, assessment of tigers under Phase III (camera traps) in wildlife sanctuaries and national parks under Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) and Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) shows a minimum presence of 37 tigers. The population doesn't include cubs. The latest figures as per …
