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 …
The ambitious tiger revival plan at Panna National Park might be moving ahead amid hiccups since its inception early last year, but wildlife experts like World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-India secretary general Ravi Singh, are very much upbeat about the project. Singh has stated that all possible efforts were being taken …
Strong demands for effective efforts in the field of tiger conservation were raised from all around amid the intermittent big cat mortalities in Madhya Pradesh throughout the year. Panna National Park was in the limelight throughout the year with the wipeout of big cats and the subsequent efforts to revive …
The ongoing year is inching closer to an end but the passing year would be not be a memorable one for the major big cat conservation projects in the State. This year, the State Forest Department had to face the ignominy and all round criticism for wipeout of tigers from …
The effort of Madhya Pradesh forest officials to catch the elusive tiger, which had deserted Panna National Park last month, is still on. The big cat was spotted at the Taradehi forest in Damoh district on Thursday. For almost a month, the forest officials have been keeping a round-the-clock vigil …
A relocated tiger has strayed form Panna sanctuary for the past 25 days It has covered 200 km it seems that it is now moving towards its home at Pench Bhopal: The elusive big cat that has been straying out of Madhya Pradesh
The straying feline, which had deserted the Panna National Park around a fortnight ago, might now be put in confinement shortly. The Central Government has reportedly directed the State to keep the tiger inside the enclosure till it gets acclimatised to the park. However, the recent goof up has certainly …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has asked the Centre to review the Ken-Betwa river-linking project in Madhya Pradesh in view of the ecological implications. In a letter to Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mr. Ramesh suggested that it
THE Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) on Saturday nabbed three poachers with iron traps in Panna Tiger Reserve. All three belonged to the Pardhi community. "These people had come from Maharashtra and would have tried to trap a tiger or a deer," said a WCCB official. There are currently two …
Seven months after two tigresses were shifted to Panna, Madhya Pradesh forest officials have finally found a suitable tiger in the Pench reserve to be translocated to Panna. The forest officials had identified a tiger in Bandhavgarh recently but the translocation was stopped when experts warned that it could belong …
Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Manas sanctuary in Assam have been given a financial package for the year 2008-09, according to an environment ministry official The Centre has released nearly Rs 100 crores to five states to relocate villages in tiger reserves to free the animals from human …
Those in Bangladesh who argue that the death four years ago of two Sundarbans tigers was due to reckless research have found support for their contention in the findings of an official Indian investigation into the deaths of Panna tigers in Madhya Pradesh. It is now thought increasingly likely that …
When it was found there were no tigers in the Panna Tiger Reserve, P K Sen was called to join the government special investigation team. Former head of Project Tiger, he told Sumana Narayanan the department
Mumbai: The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) stands firmly behind the method of radio-collaring as an efficient tool in preservation of big cats. This is in light of the recent "wildlife intelligence report" submitted to the government, that blamed radio-collaring as the cause of death of tigers in Panna National …
The country's largest iron ore producer, NMDC, is likely to restart mining operations at the Panna diamond reserves in Madhya Pradesh by August 15 and is currently undertaking trial runs at the site. NMDC Chairman Rana Som has left for the Panna reserves to assess the production and commercial operations …
The opposition Congress in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly today shouted slogans and staged a walkout over the issue of illegal poaching of tigers and decline in the population of the big cat. Opposition members had brought posters, with pictures of tigers, along which they wore as a jacket. Below the …
While refusing to act against officials responsible for the tiger going extinct in Panna, Madhya Pradesh on Monday joined issue with the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), advising it to take more effective steps to increase the tiger population in the country.
