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, …
Even after Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath complained to the Prime Minister over the progress of highways being stalled by the Environment Ministry, Jairam Ramesh seems in no mood to relent. In a letter to Nath, Ramesh has pointed out that the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) …
The Kaziranga National Park in the alluvial floodplains of Assam is an important tiger habitat in the country and perhaps the only viable source population left in the entire Northeast India. Even before it became a tiger reserve (notified in 2007), tiger conservation was on under the rhino as a …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: The Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) in north Bengal finally had its Kodak moment when a beat officer photographed a sub-adult tiger with a film camera
Says He Will Not Allow Chhindwara Highway To Cut Through Tiger Reserve BLAMED by his Cabinet colleagues, particularly surface transport minister Kamal Nath, of stalling projects, environment minister Jairam Ramesh hit back saying he would further increase the rejection rate of projects.
India has come a long way from the bad old days of tiger shooting as 'sport' to tiger tourism as a growing business. India has 39 tiger reserves scattered all over the tiger's range, covering about 40,000 sq. km of forest. Unfortunately, almost 50 per cent are in very bad …
1411 tigers left. So says the latest advertisement campaign of a new telecom company and the wwf. It is powerful. It plays to our emotions. But it does not tell us what is being done, or should be done. It does not tell us how we, the consuming classes, can …
1411 tigers left. So says the latest advertisement campaign of a new telecom company and the wwf. It is powerful. It plays to our emotions. But it does not tell us what is being done, or should be done. It does not tell us how we, the consuming classes, can …
For Samarin seeing a tiger is as casual as her monthly sightings of the ration store supplier. “They come sometimes but as long as we mind our own business, they don’t do any harm,” she says, working in her small farm in the middle of the forest, her baby slung …
Panna: Wildlife in Panna Tiger Reserve is falling victim to not just poachers but also speeding vehicles. ''Between January 9 and March 10, vehicles knocked down two nilgai, four sambar, a boar, two hyenas, six jackals, a rabbit, a fox, two langoors and a chital with the maximum fatalities in …
LALIT SHASTRI The Madhya Pradesh forest minister Sartaj Singh was off the mark when he said in a written reply to a question in the state Assembly on Monday that a tiger recently relocated from the Pench Tiger Reserve to Panna Tiger Reserve had been radio-collared and was being monitored …
The tiger has become the latest expression of political correctness. Look around: schoolchildren on roads, national icons on screens and big brands in campaign mode. The government has pumped in additional funds. Conservation NGOs are mushrooming in all corners of India. Green blogging is catching on like wildfire. Under the …
Sunny Sebastian One of the young male tigers found dead outside the Ranthambhor National Park over the past weekend JAIPUR: Seasoned conservationist Harsh Vardhan has cautioned the Rajasthan authorities against more tiger deaths on account of man-animal conflict in the environs of the world famous Ranthambhor tiger reserve. About a …
D.Radhakrishnan Udhagamandalam: Dry conditions have become a source of concern in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) near here, according to the Field Director of the reserve Rajiv K.Srivastava. A proposal was in the process of being sent to the Chief Wildlife Warden to temporarily close the reserve, he told The …
Against the backdrop of the increasing popularity of ecotourism and the dramatic loss of tigers due to lack of funding, mismanagement, population and development pressures as well as poaching, this article finds that the present policies benefit neither conservation nor local communities. It is only by integrating ecotourism into a …
2010 0 010 tiger census in the Kalakkad-Mundanthurai The first phase of the 20 k Tiger Reserve has begun and volunteers are streaming in, notes Shobha Menon Involving students in the tiger census has proved a remarkable awareness exercise to reach out to the community and encourage their participation in …
Challenging the night traffic ban on National Highway 67 through the Bandipur National Park, respondents from Kerala submitted to the High Court on Monday that Karnataka cannot implement the ban as there is no alternative motorable road connecting the two States. During the hearing of the matter, counsel for the …
The six-day wildlife census with focus on tigers began on Saturday. Chief Wildlife Warden R. Sundararaju told The?Hindu at Kotagiri on Sunday that five tigers had been sighted in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. He said that one tiger was sighted in the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve and pug marks were …
PALAKKAD: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Friday said the tiger population in 18 of the 38 tiger reserves in the country
