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 …
SONARPUR, 20 JUNE: The tourism industry in the Sunderbans is likely to get a boost after works for a tiger rescue centre at Jharkhali in Basanti is completed. The spot would be more attractive to the animal lovers as a crocodile breeding centre was also constructed near the tiger rehabilitation …
The cats in your para may be multiplying but at least one of the four cat species found in and around Calcutta is vanishing along with the wetlands the animals thrive on. Wildlife specialists have no clue about the population of the fast-disappearing fishing cats, which have been spotted in …
Ecological diversity in Sunderban is at the threshold of decline. The fragile land here is being swallowed every day by gradual sea level rise, coastal erosion and tropical cyclones. Besides the global cause of sea level rise i.e. thermal expansion of sea water also responsible is the land degrading anthropogenic …
Human-wildlife conflict is widespread in today’s South Asia and the wider world. Forty-seven elephants, seven leopards and two tigers have been killed in the last twenty months in the forests of northern Bengal. The deaths of elephants were caused in most cases by speeding trains. The problem of human-animal conflict …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Scientists and officials of the Sunderban Tiger Reserve are investigating whether the Sunderban tiger is a different sub-species compared to those found in the sub-continent, officials told The Hindu on Sunday. The Sunderban tiger exhibits certain distinctive morphological adaptations that make it particularly suited to the mangrove …
KOLKATA, 19 SEPT: Forest officials of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (STR) successfully tranquillized a full grown female Royal Bengal tiger from Kumirmari island of Gosaba in South 24-Parganas last night. According to forest officials, the big cat, which is around 10 feet long, had strayed into a village last night. …
Ananya DuttaKOLKATA: Two persons were killed in separate incidents when they were attacked by tigers in the Sunderbans over the weekend, officials of the Sunderban Tiger Reserve told The Hindu on Sunday.Samir Mandal, a resident of Emlibari village had gone fishing with a group of fishermen when their boat was …
KOLKATA, 13 JULY: At least 15 per cent of the Sunderbans ~ the world's largest mangrove forests ~ will be submerged by 2020 and neglecting the area further can have global implications as it is highly vulnerable to climate change, says a UNDP report. The District Human Development Report (DHDR) …
This press release by UNDP provides an in-depth study of three districts in the Indian state of West Bengal, namely, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and Uttar Dinajpur. The study reveals that where we live can determine our well-being as there are wide variations in human development between districts …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Radio collars, meant for tracking the behaviour of tigers in the Sunderbans as part of the ongoing census, will be custom-made. For, the big cats here
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Two tigers were trapped in quick succession by the authorities of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve on Tuesday to mitigate man-animal conflict on the estuarine islands, officials of the West Bengal Forest Department said on Wednesday. The tigers had strayed into the inhabited areas in Samshernagar and Kalitala, …
THE SUNDARBANS TERRAIN IS TURNING HOSTILE TO THE BENGAL TIGER AS SALINITY TAKES A TOLL ON THE FLORA & FAUNA Prithvijit Mitra & Achintyarup Ray | TNN Ashutosh Dali could not grow a single shoot in his field ever since it got flooded by saline water during last year
A tigress wearing a radio collar being released at Pirkhali forest block in Sundarban. Sundarbans, the largest estuarine mangrove forest in the world, also boasts of the highest number of tigers in the country. Now enumerators are carrying out the arduous task of counting the big cats in nearly 1,600 …
Ananya Dutta It was fastened less than two weeks ago Concerns raised over success of the initiative KOLKATA: Animal instinct seems to have won over human intervention in one particular case as a pair of tigers detached the radio-collar fastened onto a tigress less than two weeks ago by officials …
The much-awaited tiger census in the Sunderbans, where DNA sampling would be made for the first time to establish the number of big cats, began on Thursday. Tiger scat will be collected for DNA sampling which is a foolproof method to establish their number, Field Director of Sunderbans Tiger Reserve …
The much-awaited tiger census in the Sunderbans forest will begin next month and preparations are underway to conduct the exercise with DNA sampling method for the first time. Pradeep Vyas, director of the Sunderbans Biosphere Reserve (SBR) told reporters here that the census would be conducted in February. The exact …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: To combat the situation of an increasing number of incidents of tigers straying into the inhabited areas of the Sunderbans islands and attacking the locals, the authorities have decided to introduce deer in the forested areas to supplement the prey base for the big cats. The decision …
The West Bengal government for the first time will conduct tiger census through DNA sampling of the animal's scat in Sunderbans in January next year. Tiger censusTill now, pug marks were used to count the tigers, but there was always controversy regarding the veracity of the marks. During the 2006 …
