Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: T N Godavarman Thirumalpad Vs Union of India & Others. The Supreme Court said that that the allotment of 11.89 hectare of reserve forest land in Survey No.21 Kondhwa Budruk in district Pune for agriculture purposes on August 28, …
A deadly virus is stalking the big cats, but the State Forest department is yet to wake up to the warning. Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) has reportedly affected tigers in the northern and eastern parts of the country, killing two cubs in Patna Zoo, a couple of months ago. Member …
SEONI (MP): A tigress has been shifted from Pench Tiger Reserve to the Panna Tiger Reserve here where the number of the female big cats has been dwindling. "After a lot of efforts, a three-and-half year old tigress was caught from Kurai range by the trained wildlife experts and shifted …
Kolhapur: The first national census in the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR) is halfway through as experts completed the transect line observations and began the carnivore census from Tuesday. The count, which began on Friday last week, will conclude on Thursday. The national tiger census is conducted every four years and …
Proposal cleared for 191-km stretch of NH 209 in Karnataka. Wildlife activists in Tamil Nadu are not happy with the Central Government’s decision to permit the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to widen a 191-km stretch of NH 209 in Karnataka. The Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee, a high-level …
Alwar: Territorial equations in the Sariska tiger reserve are in a jeopardy! Three tigers shifted from Ranthambore are upsetting equations here. One has grabbed a major portion of the core area in the reserve forcing other big cats to the periphery near over two dozen villages with a sizable human …
The national tiger census will begin at the Sahyadri tiger reserve (STR) from Thursday amid much curiosity, as no tiger was sighted in the 50 camera traps installed in the Chandoli national park and Koyna wildlife sanctuary over the past one-and-a-half months. More than 100 forest department personnel and wildlife …
The centre has released the first ever financial sanction to Amangarh tiger reserve. The sanction of Rs 24 lakh will be utilized for the management of the reserve. Six persons have been killed in area adjoining the reserve since December 29, in attacks by a stray feline. Though, the big …
Jaipur: Safari at the Ranthambore tiger reserve becomes bigger, literally! In a bid to decongest the tiger reserve, the forest department has added a new zone at the reserve. “We have been working on zone number 10 for about two or three months and sprucing it up. It is now …
The proposals sent by States are not demarcated scientifically The Ministry of Environment and Forests has decided to return the Ecologically Sensitive Zone (ESZ) proposals sent by various States as many of them are not demarcated scientifically. States will have to rework the proposals and resubmit them. Ministry sources said …
Fifty-three cases of tiger poaching and 160 cases of killing of leopard are being tried in various courts in Madhya Pradesh, some for over four decades. A case of tiger death registered on May 17, 1975 in Kanha National Park in Mandla district is still pending decision in the court. …
The country lost 63 tigers in 2013 with Karnataka alone losing 16 big cats. The data released by the National Tiger Conservation Authority states that poachers accounted for the death of 48 tigers in different parts of the country last year. In comparison, 72 tiger deaths were reported in 2012. …
From zero tigers in early 2009, the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh now faces a problem of plenty. The number of tigers at the reserve was 23 at last count, including the five that were initially shifted from other reserves. The park authorities are now worried about a skewed …
Poaching was the cause of most deaths, says National Tiger Conservation Authority The country lost 63 of its wild tigers in 2013. The first tiger death of the year was reported from the South Brahmapuri forest range of Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, on January 6, 2013 caused by suspected poaching. The …
With a large chunk of the funds remaining unutilised till the end of the fiscal, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has asked the two tiger reserves of the State to send in their annual plan of operation (APO) before March 31 beginning this year. Two senior officials of …
HYDERABAD: The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and the National Tiger Conservation Authority have joined hands with the State Forest Department to undertake the first ever intensive census of tigers at the Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR) on Wednesday. A six-member team of experts from WII, Dehradun, arrived in the city …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has constituted a six-member committee to review the proposal of the Assam Government on safeguarding wildlife in relation with the National Highway-37 passing along the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve. The committee has also been assigned the task of reviewing the proposed …
A considerable increase in the number of direct sighting of tigers was recorded in the eight-day tiger population estimation taken up in four tiger reserves in the State. According to wildlife authorities in Aanamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) in Pollachi, three tigers were directly sighted and a similar number was reported …
About 600 Sqkm Of Reserve Will Be Monitored Bangalore: In a month’s time, almost every inch of Nagarahole tiger reserve will be monitored and photographed 24x7 with 400 cameras set to be installed in different parts of the reserve.It is for the first time in the state that an entire …
Fifty direct sightings reported during the recent census increasing tribe? The sighting of cubs with mother in various forests during this time, according to the officials, indicates the presence of breeding tigers. With more than 50 direct sightings reported in the Karnataka tiger reserves and wildlife sanctuaries during the National …
Four rare melanistic (black) golden cats (Captopuma Temminckii) and rare Chinese pangolins were sighted at Pakke Tiger Reserve in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, forest officials said here on Tuesday. The images of the cats were captured during recent camera trapping survey in 57 locations of the rainforest area …
