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 Maharashtra Forest Department has given its nod for the widening of the National Highway 7 stretch that passes within the eco-sensitive zone of Pench National Park. The approval for expansion of the 37-km stretch between the 652 km milestone on Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border and the 689 km milestone near …
KOCHI: Rajesh Gopal, member secretary of the National Tiger Conservation Authority under the Ministry of Environment and Forest, will deliver the keynote address at the two-day national seminar being held on September 22 and 23 at Thekkady in connection with the platinum jubilee of the Periyar Tiger Reserve. The seminar …
In A fillip to tiger conservation, the National Tiger Conservation Authority has given in-principle approval for four more tiger reserves in different states in the country. Arrested poacher claims he killed Corbett tiger near parkTwo Asiatic bears killed in Nagaland park. Two wildlife rescue centres being built in Uttarakhand
Neha Sinha Corbett, August 8: Tourism and its ensuing commercialisation are gradually emerging as big threats to the Corbett Tiger Reserve. Around 40 resorts have come up in the tiger corridor leading up to the reserve and just last month, a tiger was hit on this corridor by a tourist …
LOST IN SARISKA: The tigress from Ranthambhore who is yet to come to terms with her new surroundings. JAIPUR: The male tiger introduced into Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar district of Rajasthan ten days ago from Ranthambhore National Park is coping well while the condition of the female, brought in …
RAKHEE ROY TALUKDAR The tiger after it reached Sariska. Picture by Gopal Sunger Jaipur, June 28: The tiger has landed in Sariska at last. In an air force helicopter. After three long and barren years, Sariska regained its stripes as a tiger reserve today, carrying out what experts said was …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority has been under pressure to produce results, especially after it acknowledged some months ago that the population of the big cat has declined sharply. Reintroducing tigers into Rajasthan's Sariska reserve, where the animal went locally extinct about four years ago, is a predictable first-order priority …
Fitted With GPS Collar As Safety Measure; Two More Big Cats To Be Flown In Sariska (Alwar): Sariska almost missed its date with history. Around 3 in the morning, it began to rain. By daybreak, it was bucketing down. You would have had to be a die-hard optimist to believe …
Sunny Sebastian New arrival: In a bid to revive the tiger population at the Sariska reserve, Rajasthan, a three-year-old male cub was airlifted on Saturday from the State's Ranthambore national park. The move reintroduces the big cat in the reserve, which lost all its tigers to poaching in 2004-05. SARISKA …
Sunny Sebastian Plan to re-introduce wild tigers in the sanctury JAIPUR: The country is on the threshold of making history by re-introducing wild tigers in one of its sanctuaries. If everything goes according to plan and the weather gods are merciful, a tiger
YOJNA GUSAI Sariska is soon going to get back its glory, which in monetary terms has cost the country's exchequer more than Rs 1.5 crore. After losing all the tigers to poachers in 2004, this tiger reserve in Rajasthan will have tigers from the Ranthambore tiger reserve by the end …
Dawn at Kanha National Park in India's central highlands is welcomed with a symphony of animal sounds. The safari guides in their jeeps listen intently, straining to pick out telltale dissonant notes
Sariska, which a few years ago was discovered to be the grave of the endangered tiger rather than its sanctuary, is now ready to adopt the big cat again, possibly within a month. The tiger would come from Ranthambhore reserve currently experiencing a boom in the population of the animal, …
The new budgetary provisions for conservation of tigers have not come a day soon. In the course of presenting the budget the Finance Minister said, "The tiger is under a grave threat' and allocated Rs. 50 crore for the National Tiger Conservation Authority. The bulk of the allocation will be …
Keeping the faith: Rajesh Gopal, Inspector General of Forest and Member Secretary of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, at his office in New Delhi. The leader of tiger saving project, Rajesh Gopal , is hopeful about protecting the national animal. He talks with Bindu Shajan Perappadan about the latest advancements …
Riding on the back of a populist Budget, Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram today reiterated UPA Government's commitment for economic uplift of the north eastern region (NER), announcing a hike of Rs 2082 crore in Central allocation. The NER will continue to receive special attention and enhanced allocations. "I propose to …
In a way, the Budget speech of the Union Finance Minister for 2008-2009 was unique. India's national animal tiger managed to find way in Chidambaram's speech when he recognised that the figure of 1411, the official number of tigers in the country, was alarming. "The number 1,411 should ring the …
The declining tiger population in the country figured in the budget proposals for 2008-09 with the government announcing a special package for the conservation of the big cats. "The tiger is under grave threat,' Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said, while presenting the budget estimates in Parliament on Friday. Mr. …
The Centre-sponsored Project Tiger Scheme has sent out a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to states as part of a new Five Year Plan that has allocated Rs 600 crore for the cause of the tiger. In keeping with the new-found urgency to preserve the dwindling numbers of tigers, the MoU …
Concerned over declining number of tigers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today promised further enhancement of financial and organisational support to save the big cats in the country. At a meeting called to review tiger conservation status and functioning of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, he expressed concern over declining tiger …
