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 …
NAGPUR: The 138.12 sq km Bor Tiger Reserve (BTR), 60km from here in Wardha district, will have a buffer zone of 661.16 sq km. This is nearly five times the tiger reserve area itself. Bor (61.10 sq km), New Bor (60.69 sq km) and Extended New Bor (16.31 sq km) …
NAGPUR: The state forest department and leading NGOs in the region will join hands to prepare a concept plan for tiger corridor conservation under International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) integrated tiger habitat conservation programme (ITHCP). The decision was taken in a preliminary meeting in the city last Tuesday. …
Although significantly more money is spent on the conservation of tigers than on any other threatened species, today only 3200 to 3600 tigers roam the forests of Asia, occupying only 7% of their historical range. Despite the global significance of and interest in tiger conservation, global approaches to plan tiger …
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released guidelines on transboundary conservation to support practitioners and those involved in initiating, managing and governing transboundary conservation programmes. The publication, titled ‘Transboundary Conservation: A systematic and integrated approach,’ offers current scientific thinking combined with 33 case studies on transboundary conservation …
The Sumatran tiger conservation group, Forum Harimau Kita (Our Tiger Forum), has proven that storytelling could effectively raise public awareness of the needs of the endangered species. The practice is usually used to educate children in various areas in West Sumatra about the urgency of Sumatran tiger conservation, as the …
Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), an NGO engaged in conservation of tigers and other wild species across the country, has planned to equip the anti-poaching camps of the forest department in Khanapur forest, by providing different handy, useful and eco-friendly materials, which can help them to do their job more efficiently. …
Delhi announces three new reserves in central and eastern states following survey result that showed 30% rise in tiger population India is planning to create three more tiger reserves in the country, environment minister Prakash Javadekar announced in the parliament on Tuesday. The development comes in the wake of a …
The National Green Tribunal today pulled up the Assam government for its failure to release funds for protection of wildlife in Kaziranga and Manas national parks and directed it to make the amount available in two weeks. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi came down heavily on the …
Officials of the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR) observed the World Sparrow Day, World Forest Day and World Water Day in the reserve forest in Erode district on Thursday. STR and Nature and Geo Society (NAGSO), an environmental and wildlife conservation organization, came together to host several events to celebrate the …
Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka has used a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to spot forest fire. According to HC Kantharaju, Director, Bandipur Tiger Reserve told The Pioneer that the drone has been used for the first time in the country as a pilot project in Bandipur Tiger reserve …
A new iPad app is asking users to "tag" tigers, to help researchers with counting and tracking the animals. Images gathered from across the internet are fed into the app, which is set up as a game. Players score points by tagging the images that contain tigers, as well as …
China is establishing a national office dedicated to the protection of wild tigers. Preparations are being made for the office, which will be an improvement on the currently fragmented tiger preservation efforts, said Hu Huijian, a researcher of the South China Institute of Endangered Animals. Dozens of wild Siberian tigers …
Reports that India’s tiger population has risen by a third in four years are based on an unreliable count method says a new Oxford study The accuracy of a recent census suggesting India’s tigers have increased by a third has been called into question by a new study. The Indian …
With a view to checking the poaching of tigers, the Wildlife Conservation Trust, in association with global body, Panthera, is conducting a 'Site Security Training' for officials of the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) in two tiger reserves in Maharashtra. The workshop that got underway today at the Pench and …
Officials and experts from 13 tiger range countries including India are discussing ways to combat poaching, a multi-billion dollar industry, during a regional symposium that kicked off here this week. The five-day symposium entitled “Towards zero poaching in Asia” is aimed at promoting the launch of Asia-wide operations to combat …
Wildlife enthusiasts were jubilant when the results of the tiger survey were announced recently. Officially, big cat population in the country went up from 1,706 in 2010 to 2,226 in 2014. These results have been interpreted to mean that conservation efforts have been a huge success. But some experts caution …
Nepal excels at zero poaching of tigers while India is the "tiger heavyweight" in the region in terms of recovering the number of the cats, according to organisers of an anti-poaching summit here. Nepal, which has pioneered in conserving tigers, is hosting an international anti-poaching conference beginning tomorrow. The five-day …
India’s tiger count has gone up by more than 30 per cent in the past four years, according to a latest study on tiger population which was released on Tuesday. The study put the number at 2,226, up from 1,706 in 2010 when the last such tiger-counting exercise was undertaken. …
Big scope for increasing big cat population in new areas: Experts A tiger at the Bandipur Tiger Reserve (National Park) in Chamarajanagar district. dh file photo The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), on Tuesday, approved the tiger conservation plan for Karnataka, which has the highest number of 406 tigers …
India's tiger population has increased by nearly a third to 2,226, a government survey showed on Tuesday, boosting conservation efforts in the country with the biggest population of the endangered big cats. The 2014 Status of Tigers in India report said tiger numbers rose by 30.5 percent in four years, …
