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 …
A new Greenpeace India campaign is gearing up to take on the Indian coal industry, coal ministry and even the Prime Minister. The environmental action group is determined to create awareness about how coal mining in Central India destroys forests, forest dependent communities, endangered tigers and other wildlife. Of course, …
The recent ban by the Supreme Court on tourism in core areas of tiger reserves in India raises some fundamental questions: 1. Is tourism, however intense, the real culprit behind the killings of tigers and their seemingly low breeding capacity? 2. If after four decades of implementing the Wildlife (Protection) …
Maharashtra’s tigers are under unprecedented threat from poachers this year. Of the previous five years, the first six months of 2012 alone have been the worst for tigers in the state as, official records accessed by DNA show, the largest number of deaths caused by poaching have been recorded during …
NEW DELHI, 24 JUNE: Despite nationwide movements and campaigns to save tigers, 48 tigers have been reported dead in the first six months of this year and 19 cases have been clearly stated as cases of poaching. What is worse, the number could be much more. According to Mr SP …
At a time when the tiger population is fast dwindling, India has reported an alarming increase in tiger deaths. An estimated 48 tigers have reportedly died in the first six months of this year (till June 10). Nearly 40 per cent of the total deaths have been caused due to …
India’s tiger fatalities are rising steadily. The country has lost 48 tigers in the last 22 weeks. The largest number of tigers have been killed in the premier Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand and in the Tadoba Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has confirmed that …
Before forest officers start explaining tiger deaths as suicides, a timely NTCA move comes as a big push for transparency FEW DEATHS make news anymore like tiger deaths do. Since the Sariska wipeout, the media has rarely missed an opportunity to play up the “tragedy” every time a tiger is …
Taking a stern stand against poachers, Maharashtra Government on Tuesday decided that action taken by forest authorities against those caught while hunting down tigers will not be considered a crime. Talking to reporters here, Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam said if the forest officials fire upon the poachers injuring or killing …
The tigers of the Tadoba reserve in Vidarbha region, have new owners. They are the tribals who live in the 79 villages just outside the reserve (known as the buffer zone), who have been given a direct economic stake in the well-being of the tigers. “Visitors who wish to see …
Project Tiger is not the great success story that the government would have you believe. India has lost 32 tigers in the last four months with two tigers having being killed last month in Tadoba Tiger Reserve by poachers using iron foot-traps. Fourteen of these tigers have been lost to …
Now metal traps and snares, and not fire arms are latest threats to tigers and wildlife from poachers. The two-day meet of wildlife officials that concluded on Thursday has sounded red alert in all tiger reserves of the country stressing on armed patrolling as the need of the hour. On …
‘Secrets of Wild India', a three-part series highlighting the diversity of Indian wildlife, recently won the ‘Best Television Series' award at the International Wildlife Film Festival held at Montana in the U.S.A. The series had to compete with films from across the globe at the prestigious festival. ‘Secrets of Wild …
Coal mining poses a serious threat to tigers in Chandrapur region of Maharashtra near the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) and must be reined in, says a report by the Fact Finding Mission of Greenpeace India. The mission consisting of wildlife experts Praveen Bhargav and Biswajit Mohanty and environmental lawyer Rahul …
Coal mining poses a serious threat to tigers in Chandrapur region, near the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve and must be reined in says this report by the Fact Finding Mission to the area organized by Greenpeace. Coal mining poses a serious threat to tigers in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur region, near the …
The coal ministry will push for allowing mining in two densely forested coal areas, Mahan and Hasdeo Arand, at a meeting of the group of ministers on the “no-go/go” forest areas for mining. It has rejected environment ministry’s decision to deny permission to Essar and Hindalco to mine the Mahan …
Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Friday complimented Maharashtra on the increase in tiger population in the State. Nagpur will be promoted as the tiger capital and a gateway to tiger land, he said. Mr. Ramesh had a two-and-half-hour meeting with Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan …
Out of the total 39 tiger reserves in the country, 13 are in Vidarbha alone. After the recent increase in the number of tigers across the country (From 1,411 to 1,706), the central government has decided to promote Nagpur as the tiger capital or
The ongoing construction of a canal is threatening a sprawling wildlife corridor spread over Chandrapur and Bhandara districts in eastern Maharashtra, the forest department officials have said. The department, rattled over the recent incidents of tiger attacks on humans, deaths of a couple of leopards, fears possible breach of wildlife …
In a move expected to speed up investment in the power, steel and cement industries, the government has decided that companies need not wait for coal linkages to seek environmental clearances. An environment ministry circular on Thursday also said the clearance process should be completed before companies start bidding for …
