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, …
We discuss separate and integrated approaches to building scalable solar power plants and wildlife sanctuaries. Both solar power plants and wildlife sanctuaries need a lot of land. We quantify some of the requirements using various estimates of the rate of solar power production as well as the rate of adding …
The dawn OF 2009 only brought despair for the tiger. One shocking revelation was the unprecedented poaching in the past three months. From November to January, skins and bones of seven tigers have been seized, plus three killed by poachers. Seventeen tigers have been found dead
With the number of cases of tigers straying into urban habitats on increase in Uttar Pradesh, the Centre has asked the State Government to expedite the process of finalising Pilibhit forest as tiger reserve for saving the big cats. "After initially showing keenness to create a home for the endangered …
Mumbai: State forest minister Babanrao Pachpute is drawing flak from environmentalists again. Earlier, he was criticised for threatening non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for opposing a proposed coal mining project in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur district, east Maharashtra. Now, environmental activists are seeing red after he set up a …
This study estimates the recreational demand for the Indian Sundarban, which is a World Heritage site and a complex mangrove ecosystem that borders India and Bangladesh. In 2005-06, the Indian Sunderban received some 64,000 visitors, mainly from Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal. Tourism to the Sunderban is highly …
Bera is a village of approximately 40 households located in Core II of Sariska Tiger Reserve. The population of Bera is comprised entirely of Gujar pastoralists, who depend on the forest for animal fodder, as well as for fuel wood and various non-timber forest produce. Since 1979, when 866 sq …
Udhagamandalam: With dry conditions becoming a source of concern at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near here, a proposal has been sent to the government to close it from February 15. Disclosing this to presspersons here on Wednesday, the Field Director of the Reserve Rajeev K.Srivastava said that if the proposal …
Girish Sharma | Bhopal The Panna Tiger Reserve here, which once had nearly 32 tigers, is now left with only a couple of big cats. In a bid to augment the number of felines at the park, the forest department has decided to shift two tigresses in the jungles by …
Ananda Banerjee | New Delhi The first successful wild tiger relocation from the Ranthambore National Park to Sariska Tiger Reserve has injected immense hope and confidence among forest officials and wildlife scientists, who had taken one of the most delicate translocation jobs in natural history. The Panna Relocation Project imminently …
Independent evaluations of the impact and legacy of large donor-funded integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) are critically important but rarely undertaken. The India Eco-Development Project around Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR-IEDP) in southern India received US$ 6.0 million, of which 43.2% was spent on community-based conservation activities. The PTR-IEDP was …
KOLKATA, Dec. 31: With the incidence of tigers straying into human settlements increasing, the state forest department has decided to put up nylon fencing for nearly 10 km. In addition, the department has also taken the decision of implementing a management system in the buffer zone similar to the one …
Critical tiger habitats made easy identification of critical wildlife habitats, a provision in the Forest Rights Act, 2006, has made little progress since the act was notified on December 31, 2007. The reason, an environment ministry official said, was that state governments had not sent any proposal to identify and …
Udhagamandalam: The opposition to the declaration of the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary as a Tiger Reserve and consequent tightening of wildlife related rules took a new turn on Tuesday. A group of persons from Masinagudy and surroundings adjoining the reserve allegedly stormed into the office of the wildlife ranger Duraiswamy and …
This paper focuses on only one piece of this complex challenge: the ways in which conservation action has been informed, and should be informed, by the interaction between ecological scale and governance. The published literature does not provide much guidance
Two years after an amendment in the Wildlife (Protection) Act that makes formal notification of tiger reserves mandatory, The Indian Express has found that three states in the country are yet to notify their tiger reserves. A 2006 Amendment in the Wildlife (Protection) Act said tiger reserves should be notified …
Nagpur : Lack of staff in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) may mean that tourists will not be able to visit the place this season. On Monday, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) B Majumdar issued an order to close down TATR for tourists from November 25 onwards.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests today announced the takeover of Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary under Project Tiger Programme. Along with seven other protected forest areas, Satkosia has been brought into the fold of Project Tiger as was decided earlier. As per the Ministry
Nagpur, November 12 The Forest Department is considering closing down the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) for tourists owing to lack of staff and a large number of vacancies. "We have only one range forest officer operating there instead of five. Under the circumstances, we are seriously thinking along those lines," …
