Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
Hyderabad: There is some good news in the forests. A census carried out by analysing camera trap photographs by the Wild Life Institute of India has revealed that there are 46 adult tigers in the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger reserve. This heartening figures excludes the large Amrabad block, where the survey …
HYDERABAD: The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and the National Tiger Conservation Authority have joined hands with the State Forest Department to undertake the first ever intensive census of tigers at the Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR) on Wednesday. A six-member team of experts from WII, Dehradun, arrived in the city …
HYDERABAD: Mouse deer, the smallest ungulate in the country that is on the list of most endangered animals, is being bred in captivity at Nehru Zoological Park with a view to increase its population. No enumeration has been carried out on mouse deer ever in the state but observation over …
Study finds that connectivity between protected areas is affected by urban expansion. Even as efforts are being made to protect, conserve, and augment the wild tiger population of the country, a study report that appeared in the open-access journal ‘Plos One’ earlier this month says that human intervention, even in …
Today, most wild tigers live in small, isolated Protected Areas within human dominated landscapes in the Indian subcontinent. Future survival of tigers depends on increasing local population size, as well as maintaining connectivity between populations. While significant conservation effort has been invested in increasing tiger population size, few initiatives have …
The tigers are roaring in different parts of the state, their numbers being significantly up, according to preliminary reports from the ongoing census of the big cats. The reports, based on camera traps and pugmarks, are coming in from different tiger reserves, sanctuaries and national parks to the state’s wildlife …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) will start conducting its annual estimation of tigers in Kawal and Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam tiger reserve (NSTR) along with other tiger reserves in southern states later this month. For Kawal tiger reserve where at least four to six tigers are known to exist, it is the …
The country’s biggest tiger reserve, Nagarjuna Sagar Srisailam, can now flaunt some extra stripes. Camera traps have recently photographed females with healthy cubs, and adult males not seen before in these parts, setting pulses racing. Forest officials estimate there at least 70 adults and 20 cubs in the reserve now. …
Hyderabad, Aug. 9: The state police have written to the AP Forest department to remove around 20 speed breakers from the Mannanur-Dornala Road in the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve. The speed breakers had been built to decrease incidents of animals being run over by speeding vehicles on the road leading …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has beefed up a detailed plan to relocate 1,000 primitive Chenchu tribal families from the core area of the Nagarjungsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve. The reserve is home to 82 tigers and tiger experts have been pressing for the need to create an undisturbed forest …
New Delhi, June 30: The Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) has beefed up a detailed plan to relocate 1,000 Chenchu tribal families from the core area of the Nagarjungsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve reserve. The reserve is home to 82 tigers and tiger experts have been pressing for the need …
M. Rajeev HYDERABAD: Over 1,000 families, predominantly tribals, residing in the core of the Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam tiger reserve are likely to be relocated as part of the efforts to revive the sanctuary, considered to be one of the largest in the country. The Central government, under whose purview the project lies, …
Amidst reports of tiger deaths, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel with wildlife officials spotting over 112 big cat cubs in national parks across the country.
Hyderabad, Jan. 27: Poachers belonging to the Bawaria tribe are on the prowl in the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve at Nallamalas in the state, but the forest department is yet to act. The forest wing has also not implemented the security plan formulated by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) …
Sept. 23: The chief wildlife warden of the state, Mr Hitesh Malhotra, has banned the shooting of films in the Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve at Nallamala stating that the chase scenes, flood lights and other shooting activities pose a serious threat to wild life, particularly the tigers. The forest officials expressed …
May 25: What is the tiger population in the state? Nobody is sure as different agencies are coming up with different numbers. With the DNA fingerprinting technology by collecting scat and hair samples failing to take off, officials have conducted the latest survey based on the pug mark technology. The …
Hyderabad, May 15: The tiger population in the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve has been put at around 75 including cubs, according to the latest census by the Wild Life Wing of the AP forest department. Sources in the department said that there are around 100 panthers in the tiger reserve …
