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 …
Documents acquired through RTI reveal that high-ranking officials in the environment ministry are working against what they should be fighting to protect, THWARTING ITS own mandate, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has decided to remove tiger reserves from the ambit of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL). If …
Before forest officers start explaining tiger deaths as suicides, a timely NTCA move comes as a big push for transparency FEW DEATHS make news anymore like tiger deaths do. Since the Sariska wipeout, the media has rarely missed an opportunity to play up the “tragedy” every time a tiger is …
In allowing forest staff to fire on poachers, Maharashtra’s stated objective was to protect its tigers. The challenge in meeting that, however, is to curb the means that poachers use on tigers, those working on the ground say. Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam said last week he had issued orders to …
Close on the heels of rising poaching of big cats, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) in a strong advisory addressed to all the Chief Wildlife Wardens (CWW) has stated “every case of tiger and leopard death should henceforth be treated as case of poaching unless otherwise proved beyond reasonable doubt”. …
BHUBANESWAR: More than four years after Satkosia was designated a Tiger Reserve, the Odisha Government has finally brought Mahanadi Wildlife Division under the unified control of the Field Director, meeting a long-standing demand of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). The Regional Conservator of Forests (RCCF), Angul, is the Field Director …
Alarmed by the rise in poaching incidents, the Maharashtra government has said its forest staff would be empowered to shoot at poachers on sight while the National Tiger Conservation Authority directed all tiger range states to treat every tiger/leopard death as a poaching case unless proven otherwise beyond reasonable doubt. …
Bhubaneswar: Forest and environment minister Debi Prasad Mishra on Tuesday said that a legislation on biodiversity is soon to be considered by the State Legislative Assembly. Addressing a workshop on ‘Biodiversity conservation in Odisha: Challenges and Opportunities’ organised by the Regional Plant Resource Centre (RPRC), Bhubaneswar to celebrate the International …
The tigers are roaring in different parts of the state, their numbers being significantly up, according to preliminary reports from the ongoing census of the big cats. The reports, based on camera traps and pugmarks, are coming in from different tiger reserves, sanctuaries and national parks to the state’s wildlife …
After scripting a success story in tiger conservation at home in the past few years, India is now planning to revive a two-year-old offer to help save the big cat in the world’s largest tiger reserve in Myanmar, which is suffering from dwindling tiger numbers. The political reform in the …
Thirteen countries, including China, Russia and India, will in New Delhi to take stock of their efforts to save the big cat, and exchange notes with each other in a global initiative for tiger conservation. The meeting will also see India and Russia signing a Joint Resolution of Agreed Actions …
Blocked wildlife corridors across the Kosi river. Now a rash of private properties inside the tiger reserve itself. Jay Mazoomdaar exposes a scandal that could ruin one of the country’s most precious forests 1. The Rush For Green Gold Every bit of inhabitable land along the 17-km stretch of the …
KOCHI: A rich tiger population and proximity to other national wildlife sanctuaries like Nagarhole, Bandipur and Mudumalai are proving to be highly advantageous for Wayanad in its race for a tiger reserve. The Ministry of Environment and Forests has expressed its willingness to consider a tiger reserve in Wayanad, provided …
Now metal traps and snares, and not fire arms are latest threats to tigers and wildlife from poachers. The two-day meet of wildlife officials that concluded on Thursday has sounded red alert in all tiger reserves of the country stressing on armed patrolling as the need of the hour. On …
Madhya Pradesh has bagged the highest number of awards for tiger conservation. In the two-day meeting of the Field Directors of the Tiger Reserves (TR) that began on Wednesday various conservation issues including protection, extremist threat, phase-4 monitoring and compliance of effective management were discussed at length. A book on …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and National Tiger Conservation Authority (NCTA) has asked the State government to tighten the vigilance in the five tiger reserves in Karnataka. According to a letter written by Dr Rajesh Gopal, Member Secretary, NCTA, a copy of which is in possession of Deccan …
The high-density reserve covers 1,000 square kilometers “Kaziranga is one of the highest density tiger habitats in the country and has a healthy breeding source population,” says a report released on Monday. It has over 100 tigers, the estimate based on the annual monitoring carried out in 2009, 2010 and …
Says National Park area not to be expanded; no eviction of villagers The State Forest department has once again mooted the proposal to get Kudremukh National Park (KNP) declared a Tiger Reserve, a status which has been withheld despite the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) giving its in-principle …
The tall grasslands of Kaziranga National Park by the Brahmaputra River in Assam is home to 118 tigers. This has been detected through camera traps over a period of last three years. This has been brought out in a report called the ‘Tigers Of Kaziranga National Park’ prepared by Aranyak, …
Guwahati: Significant tiger presence has been confirmed in Mizoram’s Dampa reserve forest through DNA fingerprinting techniques. The presence of the big cats were confirmed during a joint field survey was conducted with the forest reserve’s field directorate, World Wildlife Fund and Aaranyak, a society for biodiversity conservation, in March this …
NEW DELHI: With poachers posing a massive threat to tigers in India, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has launched a pilot project in Uttarakhand's Corbett National Park for round-the-clock surveillance of the park using high definition cameras. The project E-eye (electronic eye) is a software-based system where 10 high …
