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, …
The Forest department has sent a proposal to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for a third tiger reserve in the State. The location of the proposed tiger reserved was identified at Amangarh in Bijnore adjacent to Corbett National Park Talking to The Pioneer, Chief Wildlife Warden VK Patnaik said …
Guwahati: The Assam government is yet to constitute the Kaziranga Tiger Foundation, due to which the tiger reserve has been deprived of the direct flow of funds from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). The reserve is also yet to have a full-fledged Tiger Conservation Plan. The State is required …
Wildlife Conservation Trust, Mumbai has provided Rs 97.65 lakh 65 thousand to Madhya Pradesh Tiger Foundation for strengthening the basic structures of conservation in tiger reserves in the state. Minister of State for Forests and chairman of Tiger Foundation Society Rajendra Shukla informed that these funds would be utilised in …
Neha Sinha New Delhi: In a new set of directives, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has instructed tiger reserves across the country to put a stop to all
The compilation of briefing papers produced as part of the Life as Commerce Project by Equations in partnership with the Global Forest Coalition. Focuses on prevalence and impacts of ecotourism in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This compilation of briefing papers is produced as part …
PALAKKAD: The Parambikulam wildlife sanctuary will be declared the second tiger reserve in the state by the end of the financial year with the task of identifying and notifying the core and buffer areas nearing completion by next month. Chief wildlife warden Ouseph told Express that there would not be …
Sunny Sebastian JAIPUR: Leopards made merry in the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan when the tigers were away over the past few years. The absence of the big cat from the once prestigious Project Tiger sanctuary in Alwar district after their total disappearance in 2004-05 apparently led to the increase …
Government sets up panel to set norms for relocation THE National Tiger Conservation Authority has set up a panel to formulate guidelines for translocating tigers from one reserve to another. The need for the guidelines was felt after tiger conservationists raised concerns when a tigress from Bandhavgarh tiger reserve was …
Enumerators told to focus on till now neglected fauna Collecting details: Forest officials and volunteers participating in the wildlife census operation at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, near Udhagamandalam, on Sunday.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which was in Panna Tiger Reserve for probing the causes behind the mysterious disappearance of tigers, has claimed that the big cat community has been wiped out from Panna from January onwards this year. This statement has opposed the consistent claims of the State Forest …
PANKAJ SEKHSARIA Six tiger reserves, over 6,000 sq km of protected forests and the highest numbers of tigers in any State in India. Those statistics would suggest that all is well with tiger conservation in Madhya Pradesh. Nothing can be farther from the truth
Madhya Pradesh Panna National Park is facing breeding crisis with the disappearance of the lone tiger at the Tiger Reserve. The big cat has not been sighted for the last two months even after two tigresses were released in the park last month from the state's Bandhavgarh and Kana Tiger …
BHUBANESWAR: As the security forces moved into Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) to regain the ground lost to Left Wing Extremists (LWEs) after three successive attacks, the State Government on Saturday decided to approach National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for raising of the protection force meant exclusively for the large cats …
Pollachi: A water supply scheme has been commissioned at an outlay of Rs. 50 lakh for the benefit of tourists visiting Top Slip, the reception headquarters of the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve. The scheme will benefit tribal settlements such as Kozhikamudhi and Varagliyar, said the tiger reserve Field Director, H. Basuvaraju, …
R Haldorai | ENS Coimbatore THE Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) project has seemingly hampered the sericulture (silkworm rearing) and mulberry plantation in the tribal settlement of Thallanji Vayal, 36 km away from Udumalpet. The Tamil Nadu State Department of Sericulture, along with the forest department and the district rural development …
On 3rd March 2009, a tigress was tranquilised in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve and taken by road to Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. Although the Government of India had given permission in 2008 for two tigresses to be translocated to Panna, the recent operation was carried out without close consultation …
