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: Adding a wild touch to weddings, tying the knot at luxurious resorts surrounding the core tiger habitat has become the newest fad for many Nagpurians. But little heed is being paid to the massive disturbance and harm that is caused to wildlife by such celebrations. Loud music, DJs, laser …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to the Union ministry of environment and forests, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the state government over non-implementation of the guidelines prepared by the NTCA in 2012 in compliance with the Supreme Court directions for enhancing the safety and conservation of tigers …
The move is expected to control poaching in non-tiger reserve areas, which account for a sizeable tiger population. While the recent deaths of tigers in Maharashtra sparked off concerns, the state government is planning to deploy a special tiger protection force (STPF) for big cats outside the reserve areas. The …
KOLKATA: West Bengal is finally making efforts to reintroduce big cats in north Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve, where no tiger sightings have been reported in the past two decades. The proposal was submitted to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) recently. Though state chief wildlife warden Pradip Shukla gave a …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has rejected the eco-tourism plan of Kanha tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh, which may prove a setback to the State government’s effort to boost tourism. The State government had submitted a revised eco-tourism plan for Kanha tiger reserve to the NTCA seeking its mandatory …
Big cat numbers in Karnataka may be on the rise but on the flipside, the state also tops the country in terms of the tiger mortality rate Of the 69 deaths documented by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) in 2015, Karnataka accounted for the highest with 15. The mortality …
The thriving big cat population at the Jim Corbett National Park might be a show piece for successful conservation, but the famous wild life sanctuary's tigers and leopards might be at risk from canine diseases from some 17,000-odd dogs living in villages in the 5km buffer zone. A first of …
Pilibhit: On his fiftieth birthday, Salman Khan has a special message — from a wildlife sanctuary with blackbucks! The star has been invited by the administration of Pilibhit tiger reserve which boasts of a sizeable population of blackbucks to help them conserve the endangered species. "Happy b'day @BeingSalmanKhan. We invite …
To commence in Anamalai from January 4 Even as officials and volunteers commenced the annual tiger census at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris, the Reserve has been declared ‘out-of-bounds’ for tourists from December 16 to December 23. Officials have roped in as many as 88 volunteers, and 36 …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) asked Madhya Pradesh government for status of all proposals sent by forest department to Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) regarding Ratapani Sanctuary and the stage at which the proposals were by January 8, 2016. Among the proposals in cold storage is notification of Ratapani area …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Protection of Tigers, 30/11/2015. Several milestone initiatives have been taken by the Government of India for protection and conservation of tigers and other wild animals, and the same is at Annexure-I.
Poachers managed to kill another rhino at Kaziranga, a world heritage site about 250 km from here, on Sunday, barely a week after the national park was opened to visitors. Kaziranga divisional forest officer S K Seal Sarma said the poachers were, however, unable to take away the horn, following …
Forests of the Surai range and Khatima range in the district are all set to be included as part of the buffer zone of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. An additional 2,300 hectare of forest land from Uttarakhand will also be included in PTR, so wild animals have greater safety and suffer …
The Madhya Pradesh Ecotourism Board's (MPETB) decision to set up three tiger safaris in the buffer zone of Pench, Bandhavgarh and Kanha tiger reserves has no mandatory sanction from National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Central Zoo Authority (CZA) and subsequently the Supreme Court. Though a proposal in this regard has …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)'s rhino task force has suggested that the CBI should be given the mandate to investigate, suo motu, those cases of rhino poaching in which the horn of the animal is not found within two days of the crime being committed unless intelligence inputs confirm …
Like other crimes, rampant rhino poaching in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) is also a product of poor governance and weak institutional structures, observed the Rhino Task Force constituted by the Union Environment and Forest Ministry to study the problem of rhino poaching in the KNP. The Task Force has …
Specially-trained forces for each of two tiger reserves of Telangana have been sanctioned by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and they are likely be deployed before 2017, a senior forest official said. "With approval from the Centre for deploying Special Tiger Protection Forces (STPF) for tiger reserves of Amarabad and …
Taking note of dna's story on the potential threat to Tadoba's tigers due to a coal mine that was given forest clearance in Chandrapur district, a member of the regional empowered committee (REC) of environment minister told dna that the clearance should be reconsidered. The environment ministry's forest advisory committee …
PUNE: Tiger deaths persisted in the country despite the Union and state governments' efforts towards conservation. The country lost close to 41 tigers from January until August 9 this year, similar to the count in the same period in 2014, reveals fresh data from National Tiger Conservation Authority and TRAFFIC-India, …
AHMEDABAD: BJP-ruled Rajasthan government is likely to come to Gujarat's rescue over the issue of lion translocation from Gir to Kuno Palpur in Madhya Pradesh. The neighbouring state that had offered no opinion on the issue so far is planning to oppose the translocation citing conflict threat between lions and …
