Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
in an attempt to ensure that visitors did not dirty the famous Jim Corbett National Park, the park authorities have decided to provide handwoven waste baskets for all to use inside the park and return them when leaving. According to estimates, 10,000 tourists, including foreigners, visit the forest every year. …
flowing along the western edge of the Corbett Tiger Reserve ( ctr ) in district Nainital of Uttar Pradesh, the river Kosi has seen many humans being killed by animals. This time it was Bhawani Ram. His son Harsh, 17, sits on the bank after immersing his father's ashes. That …
THE Corbett National Park in Ramnagar is now set to become a centre for research, with activities that include projects to improve the habitat, prevent forest fires and ensure that the Ramganga river has abundant fish. The Park authorities plan to launch the projects in collaboration with the Wildlife Institute, …
TOURISM is often in conflict with conservation and, because tourism is often detrimental to natural resources, conservationists view the relationship between the two with a degree of unhappiness. There could, however, be a situation where tourism and conservation are organised so that both benefit from the relationship. This means that …
Controversy continues to dog the helicopter crash in Corbett National Park last year, with the Indian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) filing a case recently in Delhi High Court, for unauthorised flying in the Project Tiger park. The helicopter's occupants, from the Thapar group of industries, …
TWENTY years and crores of rupees after it was begun, the Project Tiger success story is crumbling. Indiscriminate poaching, the disappearance of tigers individually identified by experts and the seizure of tiger bones and skins in metropolitan cities have resulted in this situation. Add to this the resentment of the …
