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 …
Tiger conservation must be on the official radar of authorities, volunteers and wildlife activists for long but one should not overlook the fact that leopards are vanishing thick and fast from the country and the situation is equally alarming in Madhya Pradesh, which has reported 15 casualties till the halfway …
Burning Not So Bright The tiger population at the Kanha national park has come down from 89 to 60 between 2006 and 2010. Experts fear that Kanha may go the way of the Panna national park, which has lost all its tigers Poaching and a shrinking habitat are the two …
A tigress was on Sunday relocated to Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, as a part of the ongoing efforts to revive the tiger population there, a top forest official said.
Bringing yet another controversy to the recent trans-location of gaurs from Kanha to Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, a wildlife volunteer organisation on Sunday accused the State Forest Department of violating norms in awarding the coverage rights of the exercise. Seeking a high level probe into the matter, the organisation complained of …
Dehradun: The human-wildlife conflict in the Corbett National Park and Rajaji National Park can be resolved effectively if the State Government allows relocation of villagers as successfully facilitated in the Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh. A three-member committee from Uttarakhand Forest Department visited Kanha earlier during this month to …
In a major setback to the State Forest Department plans of translocating two Kanha tigresses to the Panna Tiger Reserve, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has said that the two striped felines should be released in the core area of the Phen sanctuary, before considering their relocation to Panna. …
Following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by three Seoni-based volunteers, the Jabalpur High Court on Wednesday served notices to several parties, including the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest and the State Government, involved in the formation of the Pench-Kanha corridor. Apart from the Union Ministry and the State …
This note is in response to a request from Madhya Pradesh Ecotourism Development Board (MPEDB), on envisaging the role of communities in ecotourism. Using six case studies, the possible role of communities across the spectrum of different levels of community involvement are highlighted along with their positive and negative impacts. …
A large section of wildlife experts in Madhya Pradesh are of the strong view that tigers should be relocated in the Panna Tiger Reserve with extreme caution and there should be tough action on ground to protect the existing buffer zone surrounding this Protected Area. The Panna landscape is going …
Bandhavgarh National Park, which had turned devoid of the bison (Gaur) in 1995, would get a few of these animals from Kanha National Park in January next year. The Centre has recently assigned its approval for the relocation of bison from Kanha to Bandhavgarh. The relocation project is the joint …
PM Says Curb Tiger Tourism...Nitin Sethi | TNNNew Delhi: In a bizarre plan, the Madhya Pradesh government has ordered that tiger reserves and all parks and sanctuaries in the state be opened to rampant tourism by turning even the forest guard posts deep in the tiger havens into tourist halts. …
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.
Concerned over 14 big cats dying in the last three months, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to convene a three-day meeting of wildlife officials of tiger-range states to review protection strategy in national parks. DH Photo by Ramu MThe meeting, to be chaired by NTCA Member Secretary …
1411 tigers left. So says the latest advertisement campaign of a new telecom company and the wwf. It is powerful. It plays to our emotions. But it does not tell us what is being done, or should be done. It does not tell us how we, the consuming classes, can …
1411 tigers left. So says the latest advertisement campaign of a new telecom company and the wwf. It is powerful. It plays to our emotions. But it does not tell us what is being done, or should be done. It does not tell us how we, the consuming classes, can …
For Samarin seeing a tiger is as casual as her monthly sightings of the ration store supplier. “They come sometimes but as long as we mind our own business, they don’t do any harm,” she says, working in her small farm in the middle of the forest, her baby slung …
NHDC Limited besides generation of power also shoulders the responsibility of innovative social uplift under its "Corporate Social Responsibility Programme". On the concluding ceremony of "Wildlife Week", celebrated from October 1 to 7, KM Singh, Chief Executive Director of NHDC presented the cheque of Rs 125000 towards adopting the "Tiger …
The aim of this paper is to trace the emergence of a subculture of resistance following a strict management regime of the state institution of forestry in Kanha national park of Madhya Pradesh. It illustrates how the state as an institution has been limited in its capacity to protect these …
The aim of this paper is to trace the emergence of a subculture of resistance following a strict management regime of the state institution of forestry in Kanha national park of Madhya Pradesh. It illustrates how the state as an institution has been limited in its capacity to protect these …
