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 …
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Forest Department has sought a CBI probe into the disappearance of tiger population from the Panna Tiger Reserve situated in eastern part of the State.
BHUBANESWAR: The annual tiger enumeration is set to commence in March and this time around, camera trap technique will not be the only method to be used to count the big cats. The last enumeration at Similipal where camera trap methodology was used and yielded in a low count had …
RASHME SEHGAL The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and the National Tiger Conserva- tion Authority (NTCA) are jointly conducting an all- India 2010 census on the tiger population in the wake of allegations that states had fudged tiger populations in the past. The tiger population is said to be varying …
NEW DELHI: Despite being seen as a "success'' story in tiger conservation, the Corbett Tiger Reserve now presents a man-animal conflict scenario aggravated due to rising big cat numbers and rampant encroachment by tourist resorts that has pushed up human incursions into the reserve and its buffer zones. Things came …
The much-awaited census of wild animals across Madhya Pradesh would begin on Wednesday. It would be the first census of wild animals after the official declaration that the tiger community had been wiped out from Panna. For the first time, the census will include vulture.
Hyderabad, Jan. 27: Poachers belonging to the Bawaria tribe are on the prowl in the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve at Nallamalas in the state, but the forest department is yet to act. The forest wing has also not implemented the security plan formulated by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) …
The environment ministry has again said that it would not seek loans and financial support from World Bank to protect the tiger. The ministry had, coinciding with the recent visit of World Bank president Robert B Zoellick to India, begun to rethink its year-old position on the offer from the …
Faced with reservations expressed by wildlife experts and NTCA officials, Jairam Ramesh has shelved his ambitious plan of involving the World Bank in the country's tiger conservation programme. In fact, Ramesh had even announced pilot projects in Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand, Kanha in Madhya Pradesh, Nagarhole in Karnataka and …
RASHME SEHGAL The loss of two tigers in the first six days of 2010 has brought a sense of urgency back to saving the Indian tiger. National Tiger Conservation Authority members met minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday to draw up some urgent protocols to …
Seventeen tiger states have, for the first time, simultaneously launched a massive year-long wildlife census to come up with an accurate estimate of the tiger population in the country. The exercise christened
The straying feline, which had deserted the Panna National Park around a fortnight ago, might now be put in confinement shortly. The Central Government has reportedly directed the State to keep the tiger inside the enclosure till it gets acclimatised to the park. However, the recent goof up has certainly …
India is among the few countries that still have the opportunity to nurture the health of their tiger populations. But estimating the number of tigers in the wild was a serious challenge for the Ministry of Environment and Forests until recently. Last year, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) acknowledged …
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 …
With tigers ageing and their numbers decreasing in the Buxa Tiger Reserve in North Bengal, authorities plan to start captive breeding to maintain the population of the big cats. "We are preparing a plan on the suggestion of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on the possibility of captive breeding …
Alipurduar, Nov. 4: The PWD has floated tenders for a metalled road passing through the Buxa Tiger reserve, which, foresters said, would spoil a trekking route and expose the core area of the reserve to unwanted tourists. Recently the National Tiger Conservation Authority had in a guideline said big cat …
Rajesh Gopal, who heads the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), will soon submit a report on ecological impact of a proposed Rs 900-crore mega science project in a tiger reserve in Tamil Nadu which has drawn flak from the green brigade. Gopal had visited the proposed site for Neutrino Observatory …
Nov. 3: The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to conduct the 2010 tiger census itself in the wake of allegations that states are fudging the tiger figures. NTCA will collect only raw data from the state forest departments and compile its own figures using various techniques. The last …
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 …
