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 …
Mumbai: State forest minister Babanrao Pachpute is drawing flak from environmentalists again. Earlier, he was criticised for threatening non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for opposing a proposed coal mining project in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur district, east Maharashtra. Now, environmental activists are seeing red after he set up a …
Mumbai: Babanrao Pachpute, the state forest minister, wants a mining project on the outskirts of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. So much so that he has threatened an NGO of dire consequences for opposing the project. During a meeting at Nagpur on January 20, activists of Shrushti Paryavaran Mandal in Nagpur …
Chittaranjan Tembhekar | TNN Mumbai: This train is more than a year late. The Vidarbha Queen has been waiting for about a year-and-a-half to make its inaugural run as a luxury tiger safari train, but it may be shunted back onto the passenger track because of a disagreement between the …
VIVEH DESHPANDE THE proposed coal mining project of Adani Power Limited, a subsidiary company of the Adani Group, close to Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), is set to face tough questions from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), with Maharashtra's Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF, Wildlife) B Majumdai expressing …
Nagpur : Lack of staff in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) may mean that tourists will not be able to visit the place this season. On Monday, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) B Majumdar issued an order to close down TATR for tourists from November 25 onwards.
Nagpur, November 12 The Forest Department is considering closing down the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) for tourists owing to lack of staff and a large number of vacancies. "We have only one range forest officer operating there instead of five. Under the circumstances, we are seriously thinking along those lines," …
V1VEK DESHPANDE, NAGPUR, NOVEMBER 11 EVEN as the leopard attacks in Vejgaon have the Forest Department on edge, more trouble is brewing over the shooting down of a tiger in the Talodhi range north of the Tadoba-Andheri Tiger Reserve last November. Ajay Marathe, a Mumbai resident, had filed a Right …
Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Vidarbha's star tourist attraction, is buzzing with activity. Inside the 625.40 sq km reserve, excavators are hard at work, digging up earth for an ambitious road-building project. Strips of forest, several metres wide, have been cleared alongside existing roads. Outside, along the fringes of the reserve, …
First notification as Tadoba Sanctuary: 1931 (116.55 sq km) Upgradation as Tadoba National Park: 1955 Andhari Tiger Sanctuary notified: 1986 (509.27 sq km) Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve announced: 1993 (625.40 sq km) Villages relocated: Khatoda and Pandharpaoni, 1972; Botezari, March 2007 Tiger count: 43, according to 2007 census
At least 31 people have been killed by tigers from Tadoba since April 2005, according to forest department records. But only two of these killings took place inside the reserve. The rest occurred in the thickly forested Mul, Shioni, Talodhi, Nagbhid and Brahmapuri forest ranges adjoining the reserve's eastern border, …
Travelling through Maharashtra on assignment, I heard hair-raising stories about a killer tigress in Talodhi village, barely 150 km from Nagpur. I couldn't resist the temptation of taking time off from documenting natural resources management practices and making a detour to track the tigress. Talodhi is located near the Tadoba …
