Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka has used a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to spot forest fire. According to HC Kantharaju, Director, Bandipur Tiger Reserve told The Pioneer that the drone has been used for the first time in the country as a pilot project in Bandipur Tiger reserve …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on tiger deaths, 19/03/2015. Also includes: The details of tiger deaths (classified as cases of confirmed poaching including seizure, cases under scrutiny and those due to natural and other causes), as reported by States, inside and outside tiger reserves during the last three years; he …
A new iPad app is asking users to "tag" tigers, to help researchers with counting and tracking the animals. Images gathered from across the internet are fed into the app, which is set up as a game. Players score points by tagging the images that contain tigers, as well as …
China is establishing a national office dedicated to the protection of wild tigers. Preparations are being made for the office, which will be an improvement on the currently fragmented tiger preservation efforts, said Hu Huijian, a researcher of the South China Institute of Endangered Animals. Dozens of wild Siberian tigers …
Reports that India’s tiger population has risen by a third in four years are based on an unreliable count method says a new Oxford study The accuracy of a recent census suggesting India’s tigers have increased by a third has been called into question by a new study. The Indian …
With a view to checking the poaching of tigers, the Wildlife Conservation Trust, in association with global body, Panthera, is conducting a 'Site Security Training' for officials of the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) in two tiger reserves in Maharashtra. The workshop that got underway today at the Pench and …
Officials and experts from 13 tiger range countries including India are discussing ways to combat poaching, a multi-billion dollar industry, during a regional symposium that kicked off here this week. The five-day symposium entitled “Towards zero poaching in Asia” is aimed at promoting the launch of Asia-wide operations to combat …
Wildlife enthusiasts were jubilant when the results of the tiger survey were announced recently. Officially, big cat population in the country went up from 1,706 in 2010 to 2,226 in 2014. These results have been interpreted to mean that conservation efforts have been a huge success. But some experts caution …
Nepal excels at zero poaching of tigers while India is the "tiger heavyweight" in the region in terms of recovering the number of the cats, according to organisers of an anti-poaching summit here. Nepal, which has pioneered in conserving tigers, is hosting an international anti-poaching conference beginning tomorrow. The five-day …
The latest tiger census results showing a 30% increase in Big Cat numbers in four years throws up a crucial question for conservationists and policy-makers: how many tigers can India's forests hold without large scale man-animal conflicts coming into play? Experts say although more than 5,000 tigers can be accommodated …
Rajasthan too has kept pace with the increase in tiger numbers nationally. If according to the 2010 census, the total number of tigers in Rajasthan was 36, now the number stands at 52, which is almost 44% increase. Ranthambore is brimming with tigers, while Sariska with larger geographical area is …
India's tiger population has increased by nearly a third to 2,226, a government survey showed on Tuesday, boosting conservation efforts in the country with the biggest population of the endangered big cats. The 2014 Status of Tigers in India report said tiger numbers rose by 30.5 percent in four years, …
India's tiger population has increased by nearly a third to 2,226, a government survey showed on Tuesday, boosting conservation efforts in the country with the biggest population of the endangered big cats. The 2014 Status of Tigers in India report said tiger numbers rose by 30.5 percent in four years, …
Big scope for increasing big cat population in new areas: Experts A tiger at the Bandipur Tiger Reserve (National Park) in Chamarajanagar district. dh file photo The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), on Tuesday, approved the tiger conservation plan for Karnataka, which has the highest number of 406 tigers …
India’s tiger count has gone up by more than 30 per cent in the past four years, according to a latest study on tiger population which was released on Tuesday. The study put the number at 2,226, up from 1,706 in 2010 when the last such tiger-counting exercise was undertaken. …
This is the third round of the country level assessment of Tigers, Co-predators and Prey, using the refined methodology. As a country having the maximum number of tigers and their source area, India also has the unique distinction of embarking on this refined methodology across all forested habitats and tiger …
Bangladesh alongwith Sierra Leone and South Sudan led a ranking of countries facing extreme risks as a result of climate change, exacerbating the chances of civil conflict, according to a study by Maplecroft. Read more in December 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment,Bangladesh. ENVIRONMENT Visiting Assistant …
Despite substantial conservation investments by governments and international agencies, the existence of tigers in the wild is still threatened. The main threats to the survival of wild tigers are poaching, prey depletion, and habitat degradation and fragmentation. All international trade in tiger parts has been prohibited since 1975, with China …
The notification of Mudumalai Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu as a tiger reserve in 2007 has resulted in a contested politics between activists, non-governmental organisations and conservationists with regard to the future of protected area management. This paper presents an account of how these actors positioned themselves around not only the …