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 …
While the disappearance of tigers from the Sariska National Park shook the world wildlife fraternity, the reports of death of nine big cats in the Kaziranga National Park in the last three months is quite shocking. Wildlife experts say that the toll must be higher and believe that the forest …
New Delhi: After a four-month delay and several attempts in the second phase to revive the number of big cats in Sariska, a tigress was flown in the reserve forest from Ranthambhore on Wednesday to join a tiger pair that was moved here last year. The three-and-a-half-year-old tigress, weighing 143 …
An extensive survey was carried out to locate breeding colonies and nests of vultures in Rajasthan. A total of 5,080 vultures of 7 different species were counted in 23 districts of Rajasthan. Many serious threats to these vultures were recorded during the study other than 'diclofenac', like habitat loss, predation …
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 …
Reports of an adult tiger missing from the Ranthambore National park have rocked the region. Five wild cats have gone missing from the park in a year with the latest labelled as T-83 unseen for a month now. Though wildlife officials claim the tiger has not been poached, but the …
Reports of an adult tiger missing from the Ranthambore National park have rocked the region. Five wild cats have gone missing from the park in a year with the latest labelled as T-83 unseen for a month now. Though wildlife officials claim the tiger has not been poached, but the …
Suddenly on July 19, without warning, Control Party 2, also called CP-2, disappeared off the face of the earth. Its disappearance sent the entire Wildlife Department into a tizzy because CP 2 was the wild tigress flown by the Indian Air Force from Ranthambore to the Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary as …
Teena Thacker New Delhi, September 2: The Government has issued strict restrictions on the sale of drug diclofenac, used to treat animals, after evidence emerged that the drug indirectly caused the death of vultures that fed on the carcasses of these animals. Dead Ranthambore tigress
A response, from agencies that have facilitated the translocation of tigers, throwing light on the selection process of tigers in Ranthambhore Using the skill and knowledge of field forest officers in Ranthambhore, we selected two young adult tigresses that were yet to carve out their own territories. That made them …
The local extinction of the tiger (Panthera tigris) from the Sariska National Park (NP) in India triggered a series of reactions, actions and policy prescriptions. The Tiger Task Force of the Government of India considered this to be a failure of the state machinery in controlling poaching. The Government of …
Fitted With GPS Collar As Safety Measure; Two More Big Cats To Be Flown In Sariska (Alwar): Sariska almost missed its date with history. Around 3 in the morning, it began to rain. By daybreak, it was bucketing down. You would have had to be a die-hard optimist to believe …
When a pair of tiger cubs are relocated to the Sariska Tiger Reserve in the coming days, wildlife experts won't leave them at the mercy of marauding poachers who wiped out big cats from the sanctuary in Rajasthan by 1993. The cubs, to be shifted from the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, …
YOJNA GUSAI Sariska is soon going to get back its glory, which in monetary terms has cost the country's exchequer more than Rs 1.5 crore. After losing all the tigers to poachers in 2004, this tiger reserve in Rajasthan will have tigers from the Ranthambore tiger reserve by the end …