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 …
Rajasthan seems to be losing its tigers to Madhya Pradesh. The movement of tigers from Ranthambore national park in Rajasthan to Kuno-Palpur wildlife sanctuary has established the natural corridor between the two sanctuaries is functional. In April 2013, the Supreme Court had ordered translocation of Asiatic lions from Gujarat's Gir …
Ranthambore hoteliers, scared that the park's most-watched tiger may scare away guests, used their clout to have T24 relocated to Udaipur zoo, and kept the operation so secretive that even forest minister Raj Kumar Rinwa was kept in the dark, sources told TOI on Monday . T24 was shifted on …
The shifting of Ranthambore tiger T-24 has changed territorial equations in the reserve. A day after the dominant male tiger was moved to a biological park in Udaipur, wildlife experts expressed concerns over the safety of two cubs fathered by it. They feel the vacuum created by the relocation will …
Minister of State (Independent Chage) for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar informed Rajya Sabha that the news item that was published regarding the disappearance of 15 tigers and their cubs is factually incorrect. Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve is operating at its carrying capacity level because of which old/weak/injured …
Tiger reserves may not be solely about conservation. They also have tremendous economic value, the first ever Economic Valuation of Tiger Reserves in India, published by the Centre for Ecological Services Management (CESM) and Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, a couple of months ago has revealed. Of the six …
Five tigers have disappeared from Rajasthan’s Ranthambhore National Park in last six months. MLA Kirori Lal Meena alleged this in the state Assembly on Tuesday. Expressing doubts over tracking system of tigers, Dr Meena demanded that tigers should be tracked from Jaipur instead of Sawai Madhopur. Dr Kirori Lal Meena, …
In a first of its kind exercise, India has conducted economic valuation of six of its tiger reserves and placed their value at Rs 1,49,900 crore. The study has also noted that these six reserves have been generating annual monetary benefits worth Rs 7,970 crore. The six tiger reserves which …
Rajasthan too has kept pace with the increase in tiger numbers nationally. If according to the 2010 census, the total number of tigers in Rajasthan was 36, now the number stands at 52, which is almost 44% increase. Ranthambore is brimming with tigers, while Sariska with larger geographical area is …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Babu Lal Jaju Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 26/11/2014 regarding utilization of green tax in Rajasthan. Counsel for the State has filed M.A. No. 659/2014 with the prayer for taking on record the annexed …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Ranthambore Bagh Pariyojana Vs. Union of India & Others dated 24/11/2014 regarding the application pertaining to the order dated. 24.06.2011 laying down the guidelines to be followed by tour operators for taking the tourists in various …
Madhya Pradesh forest officials have again got on camera a Rajasthan tiger T-38 in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary where Gir lions from Gujarat are proposed to be shifted. Its dominance in the area has now become a cause of concern for the two states. State forest officials are more worried over its …
Joys of a baby boom at the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) for the past couple of years might just be cut short once the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) completes its census as it is expected that the number of cubs many actually be less than claimed. The NTCA tiger …
The Rajasthan government plans to shift some tigers from the Ranthambore National Park to other parks in the State, following an increase in the number of big cats and territorial fights between them, an official said on Sunday. At least five tigers have been killed in territorial fights among the …
After Narendra Modi, proud custodian of Gir lions, moved from Gandhi Nagar to the helm at Delhi, Madhya Pradesh's hopes of getting the magnificent species on its land have faded. While Gujarat government has already moved a curative petition in Supreme Court as its last legal resort to retain its …
JAIPUR: While Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve is facing the problem of plenty with 60 tigers in 392 sq. km, Sariska spread over 866 sq. km houses just nine tigers after the relocation in 2008. Sariska that had lost all its tigers saw hopes of revival with tigers being brought to the …
A fresh petition filed in the Supreme Court suggests that the proposed translocation of Gir lions to Kuno-Palpur in Madhya Pradesh may harm tigers moving from Rajasthan to Madhya Pradesh. It also suggests that the arrival of the tiger in India may have been responsible for the decline in the …
Says NGO In Its Petition Will Gir lions shifted to Kuno-Palpur sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh come into conflict with tigers that may have strayed from Ranthambore reserve in Rajasthan? For the first time, an NGO, Wildlife Conservation Trust- Rajkot, has joined as a party to the petition filed by the …
The objective of 'Project Tiger' of Union ministry of environment and forests to provide inviolate area for tiger movement might be just beating around the bush, at least in Rajasthan. The project that began in 2006 so far has just been able to re-locate villagers of only three out of …
After spending Rs 101.6 crore on village relocation, the Ranthambore tiger reserve has still not been able to create inviolate space for the tigers. While three villages have been totally shifted, 17 are still eating into the tiger space besides the 44 villages in Kailadevi that forms part of the …
The Ranthambore reserve is embarking on phase IV of tiger monitoring as part of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) protocol for all tiger reserves for a national figure on big cats. Flush with a baby boom since the past couple of years but equally at the receiving end for deaths …
