Adopted from the framework of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas, Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) has emerged as the most important tool to assist and improve the management perspectives of Tiger Reserves and their associated landscape connectivity. Tiger Reserves in …
The long-term future of species composition in forests depends on regeneration. Many factors can affect regeneration, including human use, environmental conditions, and species' traits. This study examines the influence of these factors in a tropical deciduous forest of Central India, which is heavily used by local, forest-dependent residents for livestock …
Announcing the decision to give wildlife clearance to NH7, environment minister Prakash Javadekar said, "The process of four-laning NH7 has moved ahead. Tiger The petitioner in the case has argued that the project will hit Kanha-Pench tiger corridor PTI After repeatedly submitting before National Green Tribunal (NGT) and through its …
In a first of its kind exercise, India has conducted economic valuation of six of its tiger reserves and placed their value at Rs 1,49,900 crore. The study has also noted that these six reserves have been generating annual monetary benefits worth Rs 7,970 crore. The six tiger reserves which …
Thousands of tribal people allegedly evicted from a tiger reserve in central India that inspired Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book must be allowed to return to their ancestral forest homes, said an indigenous rights group. Around 450 families - totaling up to 3,000 people - from the Baiga and Gond …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Tribunal at its own motion Vs Ministry of Environment Others dated 04/04/2014 regarding Dolomite mines in Mandla District of Madhya Pradesh and being a threat to Tiger corridor in Kanha. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/judgment/16_2013(App)(CZ)_4Apr2014_final_order.pdf
The Kanha-Pench complex harbours around 120 tigers along with several important floral and faunal assemblages. The landscape also supports diverse land use, forest protection regimes and traditional forest dwelling tribal communities. The conservation significance and potential for long term viability of the tiger population in this landscape has been recognized …
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 …
Tourism must be seen in the context of the rights of all stakeholders. More and reliable data is needed to understand whether tourism is harmful to tigers or that people living in the forests have caused the decline in the tigers' population. The more central issue of the implementation of …
The interim ban on tourism in core areas of tiger reserves has already started to tell on those who depend on tourists. Tour operators across India are coping with a large number of cancellations and have put on hold new bookings for the upcoming peak season. Off-season tourism — the …
Tiger tourism booms without proper regulation; new guidelines attempt to contain damage. Read More: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/tiger-reserved
Good news for wildlife lovers! The tiger population in Madhya Pradesh is on rise. This central State, which is striving hard to regain its lost 'tiger State' tag, is full of reports of tiger cub births from all its corners. This has raised hopes that it would soon acquire its …
Simlipal Tiger Reserve, the fourth biggest tiger reserve in the country, may soon go the Sariska way with the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) pointing out an “alarmingly low prey base” due to hunting by tribals living on the fringes here. The reserve, spanning over 2,750 sq km area in …
In a bid to ensure greater accountability, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to conduct an annual tiger census from 2012 in all 39 tiger reserves of the country. This will continue in tandem with the ongoing practice of conducting the tiger census every four years. The objective …
With the aim of ensuring safe movement of tigers into different landscapes, the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) is re-establishing tiger corridors. Two such corridors involve Madhya Pradesh but existing natural corridors like Kanha-Pench, Kanha-Achanakmar etc do not figure in this list, which has disappointed experts. Minister of State …
Minister of Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh has said that there was no politics in the tiger estimation 2010 and nothing should be read into it. He was commenting on the depletion of tigers from Kanha tiger reserve here on Wednesday. Tiger conservation could not be successful without taking the …
Unhappy with the latest census that robbed Madhya Pradesh of its ‘tiger state’ status, the state has decided to carry out a fresh ‘sign survey’ in Kanha tiger reserve that has lost several wild cats over the past four years. The state’s request to re-check the data with the Wildlife …
Five gaurs, which have been shifted from Kanha to the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, will be released in the wild in March. For the time being, the park administration is monitoring their movement with the help of radio collars. The gaurs, which were shifted from the Kanha Tiger Reserve to Bandhavgarh …
The last moment decision by a team of forest officials and veterinary experts on Sunday to temporarily abandon the operation to relocate two tigers from Kanha Tiger Reserve to Panna Tiger Reserve puts a question mark on the state forest department
Bhopal: Two hand-reared tigresses from Madhya Pradesh's Kanha Tiger Reserve would soon be shifted to adjacent Panna sanctuary to give company to three translocated big cats there, the first such experiment in the country.
Two hand-reared tigress from Madhya Pradesh's Kanha tiger reserve would soon be shifted to adjacent Panna sanctuary to give company to three translocated big cats there, the first such experiment in the country. "The two orphaned siblings have been hand-raised since 2005 when their mother was mauled to death by …
