Tiger Conservation

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding deterioration of Nayar river, Uttarakhand, 05/06/2025

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 …

Panna fulfilled my dream to shoot a tiger with its reflection in water

Panna fulfilled my dream to shoot a tiger with its reflection in water It was a freezing winter morning and the Sun had just appeared on the horizon as we entered Panna for our first safari. The forests in Madhya Pradesh during winters are bone chilling and tiger sighting isn't …

Nandhaur tries hard to crack tiger reserve list with 24 big cats

DEHRADUN: More than a year ago, the National Tiger Conservation Authority had recommended notifying Nandhaur wildlife sanctuary as a tiger reserve but soon after the proposal was met with opposition. Recently, chief wildlife warden DVS Khati hinted at considering the issue of notification for Nandhaur as a tiger reserve in …

A tiger's tale

THE tiger padded south. Slipping through the grey-green teak forest he wound around thickets of wild sage, cloaked behind its orange flowers. Gorges in the ruddy sandstone of the Vindhya plateau gave him respite from the midday heat. By evening, he had reached the banks of the Ken river, still …

A tiger reserve in Telangana without a single big cat

HYDERABAD: For the second time in a decade, Kawal Tiger Reserve, one of the two such sanctuaries in Telangana, has gone "tigerless" with forest department officials having no clue about what happened to the two big cats that had migrated from the forests in Maharashtra in 2015. After barely a …

Ranthambore tops all tiger reserves in earnings

JAIPUR: Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) is now officially the 'undisputed king' of all tiger reserves in the country. For the financial year 2016-17, the reserve was the highest revenue grosser at Rs 23.06 crore, according to forest department statistics. Compared to this, Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) earned Rs 5 …

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Death of tigers, 05/12/2016

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Death of tigers, 05/12/2016. As per the country level assessment of tiger population, done once in four years, using the refined methodology, there is 30% increase in tiger numbers countrywide in 2014 with an estimated number of 2226 (range 1945-2491) as compared to 2010 …

‘Tigers are our brothers’: Understanding human-nature relations in the Mishmi Hills, Northeast India

Human-nature relations are diverse, multifaceted and often contradictory, especially the relationships with animals. Mishmi people living on the Sino-India border claim tigers to be their brothers and take credit for tiger protection as they observe taboos against hunting tigers. Drawing on this notion of relatedness with tigers, local residents of …

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Illegal Deforestation and Mining, 29/11/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Illegal Deforestation and Mining, 29/11/2016. The Government of India through the National Tiger Conservation Authority has taken a number of milestone initiatives to protect and conserve tiger and other wildlife. The details are at Annexure-I.

The road ahead: protecting tigers from Asia’s infrastructure development boom

With massive infrastructure plans threatening all tiger landscapes and risking recent gains in tiger conservation, Asian governments must adopt a sustainable approach to infrastructure planning and construction or drive tigers toward extinction, according to a new analysis by WWF. Released at the halfway point of an ambitious global effort to …

Bandipur tiger killing points to poaching, say conservationists

The brutal killing of an adult male tiger on August 12 in Bandipur Tiger Reserve points to a clear cut case of poaching, say wildlife conservationists from this area. They say that the continuing delay in investigations and tardy progress, in fact, raises many questions as lax and ineffective patrolling …

World Nature Conservation day: 5 things India is doing to protect its resources

World Nature Conservation day is celebrated on July 28 across the world in order to raise awareness about protecting nature and conserving our natural resources. With problems like deforestation and illegal wildlife trade on the rise, nature conservation has gone up on the list of priorities for a lot of …

'Not many reasons to be happy for tigers' (July 29 is International Tiger Day)

With over 10,000 tigers including other big cats in captivity globally, rampant tiger poaching in India, shrinking green-corridors in Asia and three sub-species extinct, experts see "no happy times" for the feline on International Tiger Day on Friday. "There were some 100,000 tigers a century back, now there are around …

Corbett tiger safari project in soup

DEHRADUN: The Centre has red flagged a proposed tiger safari project in Uttarakhand's Corbett National Park and asked the state government to first comply with wildlife norms. Uttarakhand ranks second with 340 tigers after Karnataka in total tiger population of 2,226 in the country. In order to boost wildlife tourism, …

Royal Bengal tiger population increasing in Nepal

GULARIYA, BARDIYA: The number of royal Bengal tigers has increased in Nepal in recent years. According to a representative survey carried out in Bardiya, the number of royal Bengal tigers has gone up. Though the poaching of the endangered species persists, the survey has shown a satisfying growth in the …

Kerala bags awards for tiger conservation

Kerala bagged two of the five awards for tiger reserves at the 3rd Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation that got under way in New Delhi on Tuesday. The awards were won by the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) for best anti-poaching practices and the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve for community participation …

PM Modi urges international collaboration for tiger conservation

Making a strong pitch for tiger conservation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday underlined the need for collaboration between governments at the highest level to check trafficking in body parts of the wildcat. Noting that conservation of tiger or nature is "not a drag" on development, the Prime Minister insisted …

K'taka may get lion's share of funds for tiger conservation

As per the latest tiger census, Karnataka has 406 big cats out of the 2,226 in India. Karnataka, which has the largest tiger population in the country, is expecting a lion's share for the conservation of big cats. A senior Forest official from the state, who is attending a three-day …

World tiger count rises for first time in 100 years

For the first time in a 100 years, there has been an increase in the global population of wild tigers with the number revised to 3,890 in 2016 as compared to about 3,200 six years ago, as per the WWF and the Global Tiger Forum. This comes a day before …

Burning bright: UNDP and GEF in the tiger landscape

This publication highlights the unique contribution of ten GEF financed, UNDP supported projects in six tiger range countries (Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand), demonstrating how conservation activities in tiger habitat can accomplish more than the preservation of one iconic wildlife species. The comprehensive approach our projects employ, based …

India to host a mega conference to brainstorm on tiger conservation in April

India, home to nearly 70% of the world's tiger population, will host the next Asia Ministerial Conference on tiger conservation. The three-day conference will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on April 12. All tiger range countries (TRCs) will participate in the conference where their representatives would …

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