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, …
PM Says Curb Tiger Tourism...Nitin Sethi | TNNNew Delhi: In a bizarre plan, the Madhya Pradesh government has ordered that tiger reserves and all parks and sanctuaries in the state be opened to rampant tourism by turning even the forest guard posts deep in the tiger havens into tourist halts. …
Field staff of Simlipal Tiger Reserve, the fourth-largest tiger reserve in the country, burnt a large number of elephant carcasses to remove any evidences of poaching, a probe committee of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has found. After a number of elephant deaths were reported in April and May …
Despite the tiger population dwindling worldwide, some good news is flowing in from Chitwan National Park (CNP) where the number of adult tigers rose to 125, a jump of 34, as compared to a count conducted about two years ago. Altogether there are 155 adult tigers in the country now, …
NAMDAPHA, July 21: As per the provision of Section 38 X of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 2006 and guidelines issued by the Union Ministry of Environment & Forest, the State Government has constituted an Executive Committee of the Tiger Conservation Foundation of Namdapha Tiger Reserve with Field Director SJ Jongsam …
Itanagar, 18 July: A five-day butterfly lovers meet starts at Jairampur in Arunachal Pradesh from tomorrow. Photographers, nature tour operators, zoologists from different parts of the country were arriving to document the 'beautiful creatures' in the dense forests of Namdhapa Tiger Reserve this time, one of the organisers and eminent …
Tangru Miji lives on the border of Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh. He used to be a skilled hunter until the park authorities recently convinced him to be a part of their anti-poaching efforts in the reserve. Like other forest guards, Miji leaves for patrolling in the morning and …
Worried over Similipal Tiger Reserve turning into a second Sariska, the National Tiger Conservation Authority has pressed panic buttons to save the wildlife there facing extinction. The fourth largest tiger reserve in the country reported a staggering 40 per cent decrease in its tiger population (from 101 to 61) in …
The notification of Mudumalai Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu as a tiger reserve in 2007 has resulted in a contested politics between activists, non-governmental organisations and conservationists with regard to the future of protected area management. This paper presents an account of how these actors positioned themselves around not only the …
The extraordinary spectacle of a tigress sitting in a pond with a crowd of curious onlookers standing perilously close to her, outside the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), which this newspaper carried on July 3, made the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) sit up and take notice. NTCA Member-Secretary Rajesh Gopal …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has beefed up a detailed plan to relocate 1,000 primitive Chenchu tribal families from the core area of the Nagarjungsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve. The reserve is home to 82 tigers and tiger experts have been pressing for the need to create an undisturbed forest …
New Delhi, June 30: The Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) has beefed up a detailed plan to relocate 1,000 Chenchu tribal families from the core area of the Nagarjungsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve reserve. The reserve is home to 82 tigers and tiger experts have been pressing for the need …
Animals are increasingly finding it difficult to move from the Corbett Tiger Reserve to the adjacent Ramnagar Forest Division in Uttarakhand. Reason: unregulated tourism along their route. A study in December 2009 found 49 tourist resorts exist along the route, called the Kosi river corridor, and 12 more are under …
There has been increased funding for wildlife conservation efforts in recent years. These funds have largely been spent on "habitat improvement" activities. In the absence of a scientific evaluation of such activities, inappropriate management of landscapes has led to human-wildlife conflicts in certain areas. Moreover, funds are being used for …
A report prepared by the Hyderabad Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has ascertained the exact number of tigers in the Palamau Tiger Reserve, Jharkhand, to be six. The report was based on DNA analysis of scat samples collected from inside the reserve area of 1026 sq km, between …
The Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill 2010 prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. This is to further amend the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 & strengthen the existing provisions for penalties, traps, criminal procedure etc. A Bill to further amend the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. This Act may …
NEW DELHI: The government has granted Rs. 25 crore for relocating 181 Gujjar families from the core regions of the Corbett Tiger Reserve. To avoid conflicts Over a period of time, a total of 400 families would be relocated to avoid man-animal conflicts in the reserve, a release by the …
