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 …
Humans running into tigers and leopards, that left at least 156 people dead and injured in Dudhwa-Pilibhit area of Uttar Pradesh between 2000 and 2013 were due to people venturing into the forests and not the other way round, says a report. Dudhwa-Pilibhit area, which is spread over 5,000 sq …
Uttar Pradesh will set up a special Tiger Protection Force to combat the poaching of tigers and smuggling of their organs. The conservation initiative has been set in motion keeping in mind a large number of complaints received by UP's forest and wildlife department, of poaching attempts in and outside …
Dudhwa reserve administration has sought help from the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) to increase vigil along the UP-Nepal border to check tiger poaching. The decision comes after the arrest of 10 poachers this year. After poachers' arrest, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) is directly coordinating with UP STF and Pilibhit …
Dudhwa National Park, located in Uttar Pradesh, became the first park in India to see the relocation of several Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis Linnaeus 1758) in 1984. Nine rhinos were brought in from Assam and Nepal and released in an electrified fence over two years. While the forest department …
This report presents information on the ecology and status of tigers and wild ungulates in a portion of the Terai Arc Landscape that lies between the town of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh and Suhelwa WLS in Balrampur District of Uttar Pradesh, referred to as the Central Terai Landscape. The study …
A total of 239 individual adult tigers have been identified from camera-trap photos in a study on the status of tiger and population of ungulate prey species in around 5300 sq km trans-boundary Terai Arc Landscape (TAL). It documents the movement of tigers between forests in India and Nepal. Predominant …
While the conservation of tigers is emphasized in protected areas throughout their range countries, the species continues to be distributed in forests of varying protection status, and in habitats that span international borders. Although India and Nepal share a long border in the Terai belt, this area that was once …
Uttar Pradesh is witnessing a spurt in the number of tigers straying out of protected areas, preying on humans and receding to their lairs. Three big cats have been declared man-eaters in UP since 2008. One was killed by an angry mob of villagers in 2008, another shot down by …
Uttar Pradesh is witnessing a spurt in the number of tigers straying out of protected areas, preying on humans and receding to their lairs. Three big cats have been declared man-eaters in UP since 2008. One was killed by an angry mob of villagers in 2008, another shot down by …
LUCKNOW: Dudhwa tiger reserve in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district has been made ready to be new home for rhinoceros. At present the entire rhino population of the reserve is sheltered in a fenced 27 sq km area in Sonaripur range of the reserve. There are at least 30-odd rhinos …
Dudhwa National park have for the first time adopted the zero tolerance approach for the wildlife crimes in a bid to check Wildlife crime. Talking to “The Pioneer Deputy Director Dudhwa VK Singh said that this was the first time that they had adopted the approach which he said would …
Dudhwa tiger reserve is not just home to tigers but other endangered species as well. The cameras installed inside the reserve to capture pictures of tigers have also recorded two pairs of Bengal Floricans in Sonaripur grasslands. The Bengal Florican, protected under Schedule (I) of the Indian Wildlife Act, is …
LUCKNOW: The roar of the tiger is getting louder at the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, with the recent census revealing a rise in tiger population by eight to 10 % in its core area. The last census, held in 2010, had indicated about 80 tigers in the core area of the …
Tiger count at Kishenpur might be up from the 2011 tiger census. Analysis of camera trappings suggests increase in the number of tigers in 204 sq km of the sanctuary that forms Dudhwa's core zone. Sensor-enabled cameras were installed at 65 locations of the sanctuary to click tigers. “Analysis so …
In a move that would bolster tiger conservation in the country, the UP government has approved plans of a tiger reserve in Pilibhit, the third in the state after Dudhwa and Amangarh. Under the planned Pilibhit reserve, the Mala, Mahof, Barahi, Deoria and Haripur forest ranges will be developed as …
Tiger count at Kishenpur might be up from the last census conducted in 2011. Analysis of camera trappings suggest an increase in the number of tigers in 204 sq km of the sanctuary that forms dudhwa's core zone. Sensor-enabled cameras were installed at 65 locations of the sanctuary to click …
Canine distemper virus, common in dogs and deadly to other carnivores, has killed at least four tigers in past year India is scrambling to protect its beleaguered tiger population after several big cats tested positive for a virus common among dogs but deadly to other carnivores. In the past year …
The country lost 63 tigers in 2013 with Karnataka alone losing 16 big cats. The data released by the National Tiger Conservation Authority states that poachers accounted for the death of 48 tigers in different parts of the country last year. In comparison, 72 tiger deaths were reported in 2012. …
Dudhwa reserve is gearing up for the tiger census amid hope that it will throw up an increased count of the royal animal. The census, to begin in November first week, will count the number of tigers as well as herbivores to work out the predator-prey ratio inside the Dudhwa …
Human-animal conflict is on the rise in areas adjoining wildlife sanctuaries. Absence of natural prey in forests coupled with easy availability in human areas has led big cats to frequent villages adjoining the forest. As such children are falling prey to these animals with Monday's incident in Bagdharwa village near …
