Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Concerned over 14 big cats dying in the last three months, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to convene a three-day meeting of wildlife officials of tiger-range states to review protection strategy in national parks. DH Photo by Ramu MThe meeting, to be chaired by NTCA Member Secretary …
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 …
India has come a long way from the bad old days of tiger shooting as 'sport' to tiger tourism as a growing business. India has 39 tiger reserves scattered all over the tiger's range, covering about 40,000 sq. km of forest. Unfortunately, almost 50 per cent are in very bad …
Madhur Tankha NEW DELHI: Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday announced that he would lend his face and voice to the cause of saving the majestic tiger from becoming extinct. As ambassador of
Want to increase the number of tigers? Pay people quickly and generously for the crops destroyed or the cattle killed Only 1,411 tigers are left. So says the latest advertisement campaign of a new telecom company and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). It is powerful. It plays to our emotions. …
Dudhwa Tiger Reserve was in a bad shape and something needed to be done for it, if the tiger population had to be maintained, said noted enviornmentalist and Padamashree Ranjit Bhargava who claimed that there were not more than 40 striped cats left in Dudhwa. He was in the city …
31 Forest Service Officials To Participate In One Week Programme at GFSU Parth Shastri | TNN A tiger carcass is lying in the middle of the forest. Local authorities deploy a specialized team that notices some peculiar things on the spot - four big strands of hair, a cigarette stub …
Hyderabad, Jan. 27: Poachers belonging to the Bawaria tribe are on the prowl in the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve at Nallamalas in the state, but the forest department is yet to act. The forest wing has also not implemented the security plan formulated by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) …
Prafulla Das To be implemented with Rs. 10 cr. RBS Foundation to provide funds Jairam Ramesh and Naveen Patnaik to attend launching ceremony BHUBANESWAR: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has come forward to implement a new project for tiger conservation in Similipal Tiger Reserve by involving the RBS …
Forest officers of Tamil Nadu, Kerala to share intelligence on poaching THENI: Joint patrolling, sharing of intelligence, including information on poaching, and creation of more eco-development committees on Tamil Nadu border are the measures to be taken up for protection of tigers in the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) at Thekkadi …
The environment ministry has again said that it would not seek loans and financial support from World Bank to protect the tiger. The ministry had, coinciding with the recent visit of World Bank president Robert B Zoellick to India, begun to rethink its year-old position on the offer from the …
Faced with reservations expressed by wildlife experts and NTCA officials, Jairam Ramesh has shelved his ambitious plan of involving the World Bank in the country's tiger conservation programme. In fact, Ramesh had even announced pilot projects in Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand, Kanha in Madhya Pradesh, Nagarhole in Karnataka and …
A national website on tiger conservation, www.tigernet.nic.in, was launched by Union minister of forest and environment Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday. Speaking at a press conference, the minister pointed out that this would be the first consolidated database to provide an update on tiger deaths and details of tiger poaching. Tiger …
RASHME SEHGAL The loss of two tigers in the first six days of 2010 has brought a sense of urgency back to saving the Indian tiger. National Tiger Conservation Authority members met minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday to draw up some urgent protocols to …
Seventeen tiger states have, for the first time, simultaneously launched a massive year-long wildlife census to come up with an accurate estimate of the tiger population in the country. The exercise christened
