<p>Due to their secretive habits, predicting the pattern of spatial distribution of small carnivores has been typically challenging, yet for conservation management it is essential to understand the association
Mullaiahnagiri, Bababudangiri, Kemmangundi chain of hills in Western Ghats are said to be the most sensitive regions. Since the sthese hills naturally form the shape of a crescent moon, they are named as
As the wildlife managers get into a tizzy post-Sariska where the big cats vanished without a trace, the man who perfected the pugmark-plaster cast mode for tiger census in Kerala has mooted a
The CBI will take over the investigation of five cases relating to poaching in Sariska Tiger Reserve. Sources said that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in its short-term recommendation had
Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, assigned to conduct an environment impact study (EIS) on Goa's mining, has found high air pollution in the state's five mining talukas. It also found that the figure
-State government to promote forests to woo visitors with lodges & safaris in parks, tiger reserves ANEETA SHARMA A restaurant nestles on the banks of a placid lake in Hazaribagh national park. The government wants to develop such places with private participation Ranchi, July 21: The state forests would be used to promote tourism in a major way. The tourism department is trying to get into public-private partnerships with well-known names in the field of eco-tourism and develop a project according to the demands of tourists.
Is there illegal mining in Sariska, the Supreme Court has asked in a notice to Ministry of Environment and Forests. The apex court also asked the central empowered committee to visit the tiger
Tribals vs tigers, subalterns vs the elite. The Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2005, is caught up in the intrigues between different centres of power. There are slim chances of
The Supreme Court has sought the Centre's response on a plea demanding a CBI inquiry into the large-scale disappearance of the animal from Project Tiger reserves across the country. Issuing notice to
Forest department monitoring movement of strangers Forest department staff visiting villages in border areas Forest staff being assisted by STF personnel
The Centre and the state governments have informed the Supreme Court that they have reached a consensus on implementation of a time-bound programme to save tiger from extinction in the country.
The census for tigers in the Ranthambore sanctuary has been postponed for a week. Thanks to the untimely rain. The census which was scheduled to commence will now begin on May 6 and would be
ITANAGAR, July 17: The Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation (CBRC) has released a batch of five Asiatic black bears in Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh. According to a report in ENN (Environmental News Network), the bears, hand-reared at the CBRC, were undergoing acclimatisation in the wild at Upper Dikarai since September last year. Following the soft-release protocol known as "assisted release', the bears were taken for daily walks in the wild assisted by their caretaker or
the World Wide Fund for Nature (wwf) has decided to support 10 more protected areas in the country in 1998 while entering the second year of its three-year tiger conservation programme.
The tiger crisis in the country's premier reserves has taken a bizarre twist with the Environment Ministry accusing the World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF) of trying to poach in the Sunderbans
With the tiger fighting a losing battle for survival in the wild, here is the story of one man's resolve to see the royal beast in its natural habitat. Sought-after prize of tourists: A tigress at the Ranthambore Park. Tales of all-eluding tigers are perhaps the most swapped stories among eco-tourists. I remember sharing tables and travel stories with complete unknowns at a non-descript coffee house in Kolkata a year and a half back. Those were the days when the realisation that there existed fine demarcations between travellers also had not dawned on me. On that table that day, I understood that I was a cultural traveller
A meeting of all the Field Directors of the tiger reserves and the Chief Wildlife Wardens of the States is being convened in early May to discuss the measures that need to be taken for the better
US lawmakers and funding agencies such as Save The Tiger Fund, have decided to launch a bipartisan effort to examine reasons for the decline. During a hearing on Tuesday on re-authorisation of the
The elusive tiger has surfaced again. This time in the Tansa forest in Thane district of Maharashtra. Forest officials found striped animal's pug mark in the footstep of Mahuli hills near Shahpur on
Tamil Nadu is gearing up for the tiger census that gets underway later this year and the forest department will use camera trapping to ensure an accurate count of the big cats. Keeping in mind the
