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 …
New Delhi is seeking the support of the World Bank in highlighting efforts to keep alive India's national emblem, the near-extinct wild tiger, as China and Russia champion their own conservation efforts. India is facing pressure to raise the profile of the animal's plight as China celebrates 2010 as the …
ITANAGAR, Jan 5: Taking a hint from the WWF revelation that tigers were the most endangered species on the planet at the moment, State Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu today laid specific stress on conservation and preservation for posterity of the world
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu today stressed on immediate relocation of Lissu tribal community members from Namdapha National Park to arrest the decline in tiger population there.
The ambitious tiger revival plan at Panna National Park might be moving ahead amid hiccups since its inception early last year, but wildlife experts like World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-India secretary general Ravi Singh, are very much upbeat about the project. Singh has stated that all possible efforts were being taken …
A year after India decided to refuse World Bank aid for tiger conservation, Ministry of Environment and Forests is considering accepting aid from the Bank for moving forest dwellers out of tiger reserves. Initial discussions within the ministry have not found favour with conservationists, who stress that World Bank, which …
A recent assessment of impact of tourism activities and infrastructure on tigers and other wildlife in and around Corbett Tiger Reserve. Says that tourism inside the core critical habitat is unsustainable and is a serious threat to Corbett. The objective of this report is to assess and understand the impact …
The ongoing year is inching closer to an end but the passing year would be not be a memorable one for the major big cat conservation projects in the State. This year, the State Forest Department had to face the ignominy and all round criticism for wipeout of tigers from …
This document by the National Tiger Conservation Authority attempts to provide a roadmap at recognising and evaluating threats to any Tiger Reserve and formulating an appropriate response to such threats. Today, every living wild tiger is under threat, irrespective of where it is found. While the degrees of such threat …
The tiger census to be carried out in 2010 will see more camera traps being installed in the field to capture the movements of big cats. This, among other strategies, will be employed for census. The training of UP Forest officials conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India under Project …
Monitoring tigers is a process, the end product of which is not only the number of tigers but an indication that there has been a change in number of tigers, with an understanding of the factors that have been responsible for this change. The explicit purpose of this field manual …
Aarti Dhar KATHMANDU: India has revised the guidelines for the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) to deploy forest personnel in place of the local police, with scope for involving locals like Van Gujjars. In the National Input Document tabled at the just-concluded Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop, India said that as …
Tigers are symbols of all that is powerful, mystical, and beautiful in nature. As an apex species, they reflect the health of the ecosystems in which they live and on which people depend. Unfortunately, adverse human activities have driven wild tigers to the brink of extinction. Over the past century, …
Aarti Dhar KATHMANDU: Nepal is seriously engaged in taking the on-going peace process to a positive conclusion, writing a new democratic Constitution within the stipulated time-frame, and meeting the rising aspirations of the Nepalese people. Inaugurating the Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop here on Tuesday, Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal …
Tigers are symbols of all that is powerful, mystical, and beautiful in nature. But wild tigers are in crisis, having fallen in numbers from about 100,000 in 1900 to just 3,200 today as a result of adverse human activities, including habitat destruction and a huge illegal trade in tiger parts. …
The Centre has issued advisories to all the 17 tiger range states to maintain an ID card, specifying the profile of the big cats. This move would help authorities to keep track of big cats movement and will assist in the tiger conservation measures. These ID's would contain specific details …
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: With Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh declaring 2010 as the Year of the Tiger, some ghosts about the depletion and near-extinction of the big cats need to be dug out from the
Assam's Kaziranga National Park (KNP) - the abode of the Great one-horned rhinoceros lies in the flood plains of the Brahmaputra River. Significantly, Kaziranga also has a high density tiger population and is one of the national tiger reserves established in India. The present study attempts to assess the significance, …
