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Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The Wildlife Institute of India and Wildlife Trust of India have recommended Kuno Palpur as a possible site for reintroduction of cheetah. Banni Grasslands and Kutch Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat have lost in the race for reintroduction of cheetah. The feasibility report on
With the rise in instances of wildlife crimes, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has amended the Wildlife (Protection) Act, hoping it would curb wildlife trade and poaching. Under the amended act, the maximum prison sentence for poaching has been enhanced from three years to seven years; the maximum …
Amid controversy over dislocation of families and other vital installations like Indian Oil and ITBP station, the Ministry of Environment and Forest, has set up a committee to study how the old Gola elephant corridor between Haldwani and Lalkuan, which has virtually been blocked following increasing human habitation in recent …
Enumeration of tigers through camera trapping method is underway in the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve. Around 100 sophisticated cameras have been installed at previously selected areas within Dudhwa to count the big cats in the reserve, Deputy field director, DTR, Sanjay Kumar Pathak told PTI. The enumeration process started on Monday. …
In the backdrop of concerns regarding the dwindling number of tigers in the country, the ongoing tiger census has brought some more alarming news from Bihar. At the Valmiki Tiger Reserve
The hunter has once again become the hunted. But this time it's the agile leopard that is on the radar of poachers as vigilance has tightened around the illegal trade in tiger parts across India, say wildlife experts. The leopard's skin and bones are equally in demand in the international …
DEHRADUN: If all goes well then cheetahs, which have been extinct in India since more than six decades will once be seen in the wilds here. The government of India is planning translocation of African cheetahs. The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) have …
Technology To Help Analyse Migratory Pattern, Breeding Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: After an awareness campaign to save the whale sharks along the Gujarat coastline, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), Gujarat forest department and Tata Chemicals have decided to do a study on their habitat, based on a technology used …
It's a new year gift to nearly 1,000 elephants and other wild species who can now wander freely without any human interference through the Kollegal corridor in Karnataka. This has been made possible by an NGO, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) supported by its partner
The United Nations today launched the International Year of Biodiversity, but goals of conserving the range of ecosystems as well as biological diversity in Assam appear unattainable. Dearth of political will, degradation of forests, changing land use and low awareness have all combined to create a complex set of challenges …
RASHME SEHGAL The ministry of environment and forest has not taken any decision to reintroduce the cheetah in India. Minister of MEF Jairam Ramesh told Parliament on Wednesday that a meeting on the cheetah reintroduction was held in Gajner in Rajasthan on September 9, 2009 which was organised by the …
BHUBANESHWAR: The existing corridors between elephant habitats of the State degrading, the Wildlife Wing has identified 15 stretches - both old as well as new - for its management plan. The State Government had recently announced an elephant management plan for conservation of the large animals and protection of their …
In a bold attempt to rehabilitate hand-raised clouded leopards, two cubs looked after by the Bodoland Territorial Council, International Fund for Animal Welfare and Wildlife Trust of India in Kokrajhar, were transferred to a forest rehabilitation site last morning. The relocation was supported by the Eco-Task Force of the Indian …
BHUBANESWAR: Since April, at least 17 elephants have died in Orissa, boasting of the largest jumbo population in the eastern region. Their number has risen and so has their misery. In the last 10 years, approximately 400 pachyderms have died in Orissa. The decade also marked an upswing in mineral …
Sunny Sebastian JAIPUR: Despite the setbacks on the tiger front in the recent years, the country is considering the re-introduction of cheetah, the animal which went extinct in 1947, into its wild. A time frame of six months has been kept for selecting a terrain for the animal which has …
M Madhusudan | New Delhi The census (2009-10) for estimating the population of tigers in the country will kick off in November this year. But amid widespread concern over their dwindling numbers and allegations of
Southern Railways plans to prune its train services and further reduce their speed to check increasing incidents of wild elephants being overrun by trains passing through the reserve forest area in the Coimbatore-Palakkad section. A high-level meeting chaired by Southern Railways General Manager V Carmelus with railway officials and officers …
Jamshedpur, June 3: The state forest department will organise a two-day seminar, starting tomorrow, to educate its employees on how to protect wildlife. The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) will hold the workshop at the forest guesthouse in Dalma. Forest officials and field staff will be educated on how to …
Close to the foothills of the Himalaya four tigers ventured out of forests and killed 11 people in the past five months. The killings have challenged the official understanding of man-eaters. Unlike the man-eaters of Kumaon Jim Corbett wrote about, these were not rendered incapable of hunting by either old …
