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: The machan(waterhole) census carried out in various sanctuaries, national parks and tiger reserves in Vidarbha thrilled the volunteers with a record 66 individual tiger sightings apart from other wildlife. Of the total tiger 66 sightings, 29 were in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), 24 in parks under Pench Tiger Reserve …
NAGPUR: The National Tiger Conservation Authority, a statutory body under the MoEF monitoring tiger reserves in the country, has directed all the reserves to incorporate supplementary guidelines to prepare tiger conservation plans (TCPs) and has set a deadline of June 15, to submit them. Like a working plan for territorial …
NAGPUR: A year after Supreme Court ordered Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra (FDCM) to plough back money from timber felled in Mansinghdeo sanctuary towards conservation work, the corporation remitted Rs 50 lakh to Pench Tiger Conservation Foundation. Mansinghdeo (183 sqkm) was notified a sanctuary on November 2, 2010, and is …
The village eco-development committees (EDCs) set up in Maharashtra side of Pench Tiger Reserve have geared up for involving community participation in conservation of forest and tigers. Satpuda Foundation, a leading NGO in Central India, said these committees in Pench buffer villages are now generating community actions for tiger conservation. …
SEONI (MP): A tigress has been shifted from Pench Tiger Reserve to the Panna Tiger Reserve here where the number of the female big cats has been dwindling. "After a lot of efforts, a three-and-half year old tigress was caught from Kurai range by the trained wildlife experts and shifted …
Bhopal: The turf war between man and beast has come to the fore in the heat of the Madhya Pradesh elections. With forest employees on election duty and nobody to keep vigil at the Pench Tiger Reserve in Seoni, tribals of the area nearly killed two big cats that strayed …
The latest recommendations by a subcommittee of ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on roads in protected areas (PAs) may spark more trouble for road widening by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) on NH-6 near Navegaon National Park and Mansinghdeo Wildlife Sanctuary on NH-7. A six-member subcommittee headed …
With several tiger poaching cases being unearthed, the interstate meeting of wildlife and territorial forest officials from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday has strongly pushed for a centralized data bank of wildlife criminals and poachers at the national level. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) is already in process …
At a time when poaching has hogged all the limelight, there is report of a young male tiger from Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary nicknamed 'Jai', travelling around 120-130km to reach Paoni range of Umred-Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary. "Presence of Jai in Paoni has been recorded for the last one month and it …
As many as 58 tigers have died in the past five years due to poaching, territorial fights and old age in various big cat habitats in Madhya Pradesh. Of the total deaths reported, nine were due to poaching and 49 were because of other reasons. The maximum number of 18 …
In 2006, 1,114 tigers roamed the country's forests. In 2010, that number rose to 1,706. Come 2014, will Waghpurians and other tiger lovers across the country have a reason to rejoice? Or will deforestation and poaching have cast their ugly shadow over the big cats' population? We'll have to wait …
The six-member committee set up to discuss draft proposal of Bor Tiger Reserve on Monday recommended that Bor and New Bor wildlife sanctuaries, 60km from here in Wardha district, be treated like extension of 257 sq km Pench Tiger Reserve. The panel headed by SS Mishra, additional principal chief conservator …
Survey Part Of Countrywide Study At Tiger Reserves For Exact Count Of The Cats Pune: The state forest department has captured images of more than 141 fully grown tigers in Maharashtra’s four tiger reserves and their surrounding areas. The ‘camera-trapping survey’ that is going on across protected areas in the …
New Delhi: Delhi is not close to any of the tiger belts of the country, yet it figures among the five hotspots in India connected to big cat poaching, says a report by a global wildlife trade monitoring network and WWF. Tiger part seizures in the capital are predominantly of …
The Madhya Pradesh government has proposed 15 eco-sensitive zones around its wildlife sanctuaries and parks, where illegal commercial activities including mining will be prohibited. A site specific proposal recommending eco-sensitive zones around Ken Gharial Sanctuary (Chhattarpur), Pachmari Sanctuary and Satpura National Park (Hoshangabad), Nauradehi Sanctuary (Sagar) and Karera Sanctuary (Shivpuri) …
The Madhya Pradesh Government has identified 17 eco-sensitive zones around its wild life sanctuaries and parks, where illegal commercial activities including mining will be prohibited. A site specific proposal identifying eco-sensitive zones around Kanha National Park (Mandla), Pench National Park (Seoni), Bandhavgarh National Park (Umaria), Panna National Park and Kuno …
The Pench Jungle Lodges Federation has challenged the fresh comprehensive ecotourism guidelines issued by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a statutory body under the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). The guidelines were notified on October 15, in the backdrop of Supreme Court hearing on a petition demanding ban on …
The Karnataka government told the High Court on Tuesday that the elephants proposed to be sent to Madhya Pradesh did not fall under the category of wildlife, as they were trained and captive. In an affidavit, the government told the court that the elephants were not being sold, but some …
1,706 tigers today, up from 1,411 in 2007 Should the approximately 1,700 tigers left in India be treated as sacrosanct, not to be exploited by India’s tourism industry? Or, should they be looked at as valuable commodities, responsible for filling the coffers of the state? This is the firestorm of …
I have been an avid wild-lifer from childhood and now, in politics, the only solace that I derive is when I am in a wildlife park. The Supreme Court ban on wildlife tourism in “core areas” has come as a shock to me. With this ban on wildlife tourism, I …
