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 …
BHOPAL: In a successful operation, a tiger was captured and translocated from Kanha national park in Madhya Pradesh to the Satkosia tiger reserve in Odisha on Wednesday. Officials claim this is the first time that a tiger from any tiger reserve has been sent to another state for reintroduction. The …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has rejected the eco-tourism plan of Kanha tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh, which may prove a setback to the State government’s effort to boost tourism. The State government had submitted a revised eco-tourism plan for Kanha tiger reserve to the NTCA seeking its mandatory …
Nagpur: Here is one more proof of how important the Kanha-Pench, Navegaon-Nagzira, and Bor-Melghat wildlife corridors are from conservation point of view. A latest study has shown they have the highest movement of tigers in central Indian landscape. These are the very corridors that both NH7 and NH6 cut and …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to chief wildlife warden, secretary forest department and inspector general of police (IG), Bhopal seeking details over steps taken for protection of tigers sighted recently in Kerwa and Kaliasot areas of state capital. Green panel has sought their replies in two days. Tribunal …
The Madhya Pradesh Ecotourism Board's (MPETB) decision to set up three tiger safaris in the buffer zone of Pench, Bandhavgarh and Kanha tiger reserves has no mandatory sanction from National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Central Zoo Authority (CZA) and subsequently the Supreme Court. Though a proposal in this regard has …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) informed the National Green Tribunal on Wednesday that they will be submitting a plan on the mitigation measures for movement of animals across NH7 in two weeks. The NGT has been hearing a matter …
Madhya Pradesh forest department on Monday translocated a tigress from Ghorela enclosure in Kanha Tiger reserve to Satpura tiger reserve that has about 40 tigers in its 1,400 sq km core area. This tigress was rescued by forest officials from Kisli area in July 2012 and reared by them in …
While tiger conservation efforts in the country have started giving encouraging results, tiger biologists fear a probable increase in human-wildlife conflict if prompt measures are not taken to deal with excessive population of tigers in some landscapes. Senior tiger biologist at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Qamar Qureshi, who …
Expansion of the Malanjkhand mine, which is the single largest copper deposit of India with nearly 70% of the country's reserves, has already been delayed by about two years Expansion plans of state-owned Hindustan Copper’s have been delayed further as the company is yet to secure the National Board for …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Tribunal at its own motion v. Ministry of Environment and Others dated 13/02/2014 regarding mining leases in Mandla District. The NGT order noted that since the area in question has mineral deposits of low silica dolomite …
Fifty-three cases of tiger poaching and 160 cases of killing of leopard are being tried in various courts in Madhya Pradesh, some for over four decades. A case of tiger death registered on May 17, 1975 in Kanha National Park in Mandla district is still pending decision in the court. …
RAIPUR: With forests of Bhoramdeo and Achanakmar becoming safe spots for pregnant tigresses of neighbouring Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, there are indications that Chhattisgarh's Bhoramdeo may soon be declared a tiger corridor. With frequent sighting of tigers in these regions, Wildlife Trust of India now plans to conduct …
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 …
The whole issue of translocation of tigers being bred in captivity and then released into the wild has been questioned by the forest officials of the tiger rich state of Madhya Pradesh. An RTI has revealed that the principal chief conservator of forests(Wildlife) Narender Kumar has written to the National …
The apex green panel has ordered Madhya Pradesh government to flag locations of 43 mines in Mandla on a map and state if they come on trek used by tigers and other wild animals as a passage. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked Ministry of Environment and Forest (Moef) …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Tribunal at its own motion Vs Ministry of Environment and Others dated 27/09/2013 regarding operation of 43 mines in the Mandla District of Madhya Pradesh and that the mining is reportedly being done between two important National Parks namely Kanha …
Bangalore: Can Karnataka retain its coveted tag of Tiger State after the census which gets under way after a gap of four years? The main reasons for the apprehension are the number of deaths in recent years and better conservation techniques adopted by nearest rival Madhya Pradesh. But forest minister …
As many as 58 tigers have died in the past five years due to poaching, territorial fights and old age in various big cat habitats in Madhya Pradesh. Of the total deaths reported, nine were due to poaching and 49 were because of other reasons. The maximum number of 18 …
In 2006, 1,114 tigers roamed the country's forests. In 2010, that number rose to 1,706. Come 2014, will Waghpurians and other tiger lovers across the country have a reason to rejoice? Or will deforestation and poaching have cast their ugly shadow over the big cats' population? We'll have to wait …
Madhya Pradesh that is in loggerhead with Gujarat over translocation of lions is now confident to reclaim its 'tiger state' tag in the next census. Forest minister of Madhya Pradesh Sartaj Singh on Thursday said numbers of tigers have increased significantly and state is all set to emerge number one …
