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 …
The Periyar Tiger Reserve is preparing for the tiger census, 2014, with the support of a modern technique for identifying and tagging each tiger for more effective conservation. The reserve will be the first in the country to give identification numbers to each tiger without outside support. The tigers are …
Uttarakhand's famous Rajaji Park which recently got the status of a National Park is likely to become a tiger reserve in a month, a senior forest official said. "With a long-pending notification giving it the status of a national park already issued, we are now focusing on getting the tiger …
The standard operating procedure (SOP) laid down by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to deal with man-eating tigers or leopards was not followed in the case of the hunt for the man-eating leopard of Thunag by the Himachal Pradesh forest and wildlife department resulting in the deaths of two …
Relocation of a few tribal villages from the Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR) in Adilabad district as an important measure towards improvement of the habitat has once again come to the fore following the recent submission of a technical report on monitoring of tiger prey in its core area. Stressing upon …
Noted wildlife filmmaker Subbaiah Nallamuthu on Monday said instead of blaming the government, the onus should be laid on individual efforts towards protecting the tiger and spreading awareness for wildlife conservation. Nallamuthu said this while was interacting with students and wildlife enthusiasts as part of the Robin Bannerjee Memorial Lecture …
Tiger conservationist Belinda Wright has slammed the idea of large-scale tourism in the Sunderbans, saying "it would be a complete disaster". The Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forests, houses the endangered Royal Bengal tigers. The West Bengal government has evinced keen interest in developing eco-tourism parks in the Sunderbans. "Large …
Four species of animals which had apparently disappeared from the neglected Valmiki Tiger Reserve have been recently discovered there. These include the grey crab-eating mongoose, a yellow-throated marten, the Himalayan serow and the hoary-bellied squirrel. The Yellow-throated Marten is also called the honey dog because of its fondness for sweet …
“Loss of reproduction owing to disturbance on account of heavily-used infrastructure like highways” is one of the reasons for decline of tiger population, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said in the Lok Sabha on Monday. She told Bhausaheb Wakchaure in a written reply that the general causes also include mortality of …
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - India, an NGO, has contributed its mite to initiatives aimed at strengthening conservation at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) by providing patrolling and wireless equipment to the frontline staff of the sanctuary. Addressing a meet held in connection with giving away the equipment …
Three tigers die in a week under mysterious circumstances; total 32 deaths in two-and-a-half years; all in the forests of Corbett, a showpiece of tiger conservation. Who is targeting the tiger?
Nepal's number of Royal Bengal tigers in the wild has soared 64 percent to 198 in just four years, according to a government survey released Monday. Experts attributed the rise to a crackdown on poaching as the government vowed to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022. …
Nepal witnessed a record 63 percent growth in the tiger population in the last four years. A ‘scientific’ census conducted by the government in the last five moths shows the population of the endangered animals in Nepal shoot up from the 121 in 2009 to 198 this year. Experts attribute …
A recent tiger census at two organic roads has confirmed the extinction of striped-tigers in the far-west. The incident came to light after cameras installed in Kanchanpur’s Laljhadi and Kailali’s Basanta organic roads showed no footage of big cats this year. Meanwhile, cheetahs, bears and hyenas were captured in the …
With special emphasis on saving tigers of the Sundarbans, Bangladesh Forest Department will today launch a new Wildlife Crime Control Unit (WCCU) to stop illegal wildlife trade and related crimes. WCCU will have seven teams, one for each of the regions of Dhaka, the Sundarbans, Sylhet, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Habiganj and …
To know about density, abundance and demographic ratio of tigers, the wildlife wing of the forest department for the first time will implement a research project titled 'Long-term monitoring of tigers, co-predators and prey species in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) and adjoining landscapes'. On June 25, the state government gave …
The Global Tiger Recovery Program Implementation Plan: 2013–14 is based on the Priority Implementation Activities (PIAs) of the Tiger Range Countries, developed to address the Thimphu Affirmative Nine-Point Action Agenda on Tiger Conservation formulated at the Second Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation in late 2012.
RANCHI: The establishment of a Tiger Conservation Foundation, a legal prerequisite under the Wildlife Protection Act, is likely to become a reality soon in Jharkhand during President's rule. The foundation which is believed to be the core establishment for the protection and conservation of big cats has been facing the …
Maharashtra’s Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), a successful model for tiger conservation, is facing a new problem in the shape of tourists. Camera-toting holidaymakers are shelling out big bucks to local tourist guides to go deep into the core area of the national park for “exclusive” pictures of the big cat. …
PANJIM: The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has directed the Goa government to submit its proposal to declare Mhadei wildlife sanctuary as a ‘tiger reserve’. The demand has come at a time when wildlife enthusiasts~ particularly those working for tiger conservation~are up beat about the sighting of a tiger …
A five-day pilot survey of Bengal Tigers, which is the first phase of the Bengal Tiger Census and Monitoring project, will begin in the Sundarbans today. More than a thousand field workers will use camera traps to count the total tiger population in the Bangladesh part of the world’s largest …
