Vulture numbers continue to drop
AHMEDABAD: Since 2007, the number of avian scavengers in Gujarat has dropped by 43%. The 2018 census reveals the trend continues and between 2016 and 2018 the number has declined by 18%. The 2016 census
Census/ Habitat Monitoring
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Season II of big cat count after rains
Calcutta: Five hundred pairs of all-weather night-vision cameras will be installed across the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve and South 24-Parganas division for the second round of tiger census in the mangroves
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Drones Survey African Wildlife
In collaboration with a nature reserve in Namibia, researchers funded by the SNSF are developing a new approach to counting animals: combining drone flights and automated image analysis. In collaboration
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A high-tech tiger census in Andhra Pradesh
New app to avoid human error in estimating big cats’ presence, tribal groups participate Amid signs of the proliferation of the big cats in Andhra Pradesh, the third phase of the fourth All-India Tiger
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Fight among big cats sign of rising numbers
GURUGRAM: The death of one-and-a-half-year-old female leopard apparently due to an attack by another big cat in Gairatpur Bas village is a sign of rising leopard population in the Aravalis, claimed forest
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DC orders jumbo survey
Guwahati: Kamrup (metro) deputy commissioner Virendra Mittal on Monday directed the forest department to conduct a survey to identify the problems during movements of elephants in the district. Mittal
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Pre-monsoon tiger census from May 20
Annual exercise:The census will also analyse the prey base of the big cats. The data will also be used to study habitat share by co-predators like leopard and hyena The pre-monsoon or the summer
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Census reaffirms tiger presence in Mhadei reserve
KERI: The recently concluded six-day field exercise of the All India Tiger Estimation has confirmed the presence of the big cat in the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary. Forest officials have now launched the
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Tiger census plan in SAARC countries in jeopardy
Plans to estimate tiger population in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal is in jeopardy as the neighbouring tiger range states have so
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Uganda conducts census on endangered mountain gorillas
Experts are counting the endangered mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda, seven years after the last census was held. The census started in March this year and