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 …
Arvind Singh Thanagazi As a forest fire approached the Kyara village, situated in vicinity of Sariska Tiger Reserve, officials of state forest department and district administration of Alwar locked horns, each shirking responsibility. According to villagers, the forest fire started in the bushes near Thanagazi on Sunday but the authorities …
Giyasilal Saini is a marginal farmer who has market savvy. It comes from experience. Living in a semi-arid area like Alwar in Rajasthan, he always knew he could not depend on farming alone. So he would keep some goats, like others in village Jaitpura. Then three years ago the pond …
Goats give good returns only as long as fodder is free. Unlike cattle that are fed crop and crop residue, goats and sheep graze in wasteland, common grazing land and forests. In western Rajasthan, where degrading farm land and feed shortage forced people to abandon farming and cattle and turn …
THE DEATH of a tiger last month, two and a half years after it was brought to Sariska, proves the National Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan is not safe for the big cat. The death also brought to light little action has been taken on the recommendations of the Tiger Task …
Rachna Singh | TNN Jaipur: Despite Union minister for forest and environment minister Jairam Ramesh writing to the state government thrice on the mining around wildlife sanctuaries like Sariska, CM Ashok Gehlot remains unfazed. The CM has claimed that illegal mining is not taking place in the state, and areas …
Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: It’s official: the first tiger ST-1 relocated to Sariska from the Ranthambore reserve was poisoned to death. Forensic test reports have confirmed the presence of poison in body parts of the big cat. “The forensic tests have confirmed presence of an insecticide,’’ said H M …
The tiger found dead in Sariska reserve in November was poisoned, according to a forensic report whose finding may lead to concern over the safety of other translocated big cats there.
Forest authorities seek CID probe, additional police presence near the Reserve The worst fears of the country's tiger lovers have come true with the FSL (forensic) report on the carcass of the first tiger re-introduced in Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) attributing the death to poisoning. The news does not augur …
Poaching Threat Looms Large, Slack Monitoring System Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: The recent death of a tiger at the Sariska reserve and a complete reshuffle of officials later, it is a failed system that the state forest department is slowly but steadily getting entrapped into. For not only are …
Sariska reserve may soon reverberate with the purring of tiger cubs. The reserve that was wiped clean of its entire tiger population by 2003-2004, mostly due to widespread poaching, may be able to boast of successfully rehabilitating and repopulating the park with the majestic and endangered big cat all over …
Inadequate compensation package, clubbed with new Tribal Tenancy Act, is turning out to be a big hurdle in implementing an ambitious scheme to shift villages located in two tiger sanctuaries
Sunny Sebastian JAIPUR: After all the gloom early this month over the death of the tiger CP 1, re-introduced into the Sariska Tiger Reserve, there is now some good news for the nature lovers as November gets to a close. The missing second male tiger, CP 4, initially suspected to …
The death of a tiger last month, two and a half years after it was brought to Sariska, proves the National Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan is not safe for the big cat. The death also brought to light little action has been taken on the recommendations of the Tiger Task …
JAIPUR: With the state forest department waiting for the dust to settle at Sariska before initiating any step in relocating another big cat to the reserve, it's a race against time. For if the department is keen on relocation, a strong opposition is building up to halt it. Sources said: …
The death of a translocated tiger from the Ranthambore National Park (RNP) to the Sariska Tiger Sanctuary, which lost all its tigers in 2005, has brought to the fore the tug-of-war between the two sanctuaries and the need to fast-track relocation of villagers residing in the vicinity. Senior forest officials …
JAIPUR: Five days after the celebrity tiger CP 1, trans-located to the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan as a first-time initiative, was found dead, another big cat which was untraceable for a fortnight has been located through the signals from its radio collar. The male tiger, CP 4, was traced …
CP1, a tiger introduced in the Sariska Reserve on August 28, 2008 aspart of the relocation programme, was found dead in the Tehlarange on Sunday. The carcass was consigned to flames on Monday. JAIPUR: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh announced in Sariska on Wednesday Rs.30 …
Taking a serious note of the incident chief minister Ashok Gehlot ordered suspension of two senior wildlife officials at Sariska The mystery over the death of translocated tiger ST-1 at Sariska deepened as authorities failed to ascertain the exact cause of the big cat.
ST1 had taken to killing domestic animals which could have prompted some villagers to murder it The five-year-old male tiger that was found dead in Sariska under mysterious circumstances could possibly be a victim of retaliatory killing. A team of experts from Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, which is …
