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Rs 97.65 lakh given to Tiger Foundation
Wildlife Conservation Trust, Mumbai has provided Rs 97.65 lakh 65 thousand to Madhya Pradesh Tiger Foundation for strengthening the basic structures of conservation in tiger reserves in the state. Minister of State for Forests and chairman of Tiger Foundation Society Rajendra Shukla informed that these funds would be utilised in Kanha, Bandhavgarh and Pench Tiger reserves.
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Tiger habitats mapping to be done by remote sensing
Some of the most important habitats likely to support tiger populations in Assam would be mapped by remote sensing in a project envisaged by a conservation group.
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Tiger transfer
Government sets up panel to set norms for relocation THE National Tiger Conservation Authority has set up a panel to formulate guidelines for translocating tigers from one reserve to another. The need for the guidelines was felt after tiger conservationists raised concerns when a tigress from Bandhavgarh tiger reserve was tranquillized and taken 200 km by road to Panna tiger
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Pig Suckles Baby Tigers At Thailand Zoo
A Thai zoo hoping to tame its tigers is letting a sow suckle a pair of cubs, while a tigeress takes care of some of her piglets. The bizarre arrangement at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi is intended to accustom the prey and predators to one another, and make the tigers more docile, officials say.
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Govt-NGO partnership a must to conserve tigers
Experts at a workshop yesterday called for expanding government and non-government partnership to build collaboration for protecting the Royal Bengal Tigers in the Sundarbans. Joint cooperation among the stakeholders, especially the government and local NGOs, is necessary for conserving tigers to maintain the ecosystem of the world's largest salt-tolerant mangrove forest, they added.
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Tigers that recently killed people in India
Close to the foothills of the Himalaya four tigers ventured out of forests and killed 11 people in the past five months. The killings have challenged the official understanding of man-eaters. Unlike the man-eaters of Kumaon Jim Corbett wrote about, these were not rendered incapable of hunting by either old age or injury. All four tigers were young; two were adolescents.
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Now, a software to track tigers by their stripes
Bangalore: Poachers can
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Monitoring of tigers through video
Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore: As a significant contribution to the wildlife science education and in monitoring the tiger population, the City-based Wildlife Conservation Society of India, for the first time in the world, has released a training video titled
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Study claims healthy tiger population in Arunachal
GUWAHATI, March 22
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Solar power schemes could protect nature reserves
Combining solar power plants with wildlife sanctuaries might calm conflicts between humans and nature.
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Tiger alert
On 3rd March 2009, a tigress was tranquilised in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve and taken by road to Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. Although the Government of India had given permission in 2008 for two tigresses to be translocated to Panna, the recent operation was carried out without close consultation with the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) or known tiger experts.
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Bangladesh Tiger Action Plan 2009-2017
<p>The Bangladesh Tiger Action Plan (BTAP) marks the beginning of a structured approach to achieving long-term conservation of tigers in Bangladesh. The BTAP is a policy level document that provides a vision, goals, and objectives to guide an integrated and focused tiger conservation programme.
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Digital database to track tigers soon
The old pugmark is transforming into a digital footprint. With real time information available through observation of tigers fitted with satellite collars, GPS collars and radio VHF collars, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is for the first time creating a system for a central database on tiger movement and analysis.
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3 states yet to notify tiger reserves
Two years after an amendment in the Wildlife (Protection) Act that makes formal notification of tiger reserves mandatory, The Indian Express has found that three states in the country are yet to notify their tiger reserves.
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Justifying tiger farms a step backward for tiger conservation?
The authors refer to the correspondence on the use of tiger farms for conservation by Xavier. There seems to be an over-simplification of several points raised about the management of tiger farms and other issues related to tiger conservation. In the following discussion, the terms
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OrissaBlack Tigers in Similipal Tiger Reserve
BHUBANESWAR: The State Forest Department and Dehra Dun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) may have a huge difference of opinion over exact number of tigers in the State, but the agencies are unanimous over presence of melanistic tigers in Similipal.
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More steps needed to protect tigers: Ullas
DH News Service, Bangalore: Wildlife biologist Ullas Karanth has emphasised on immediate recruitment of the pending forest staff as the first measure for conservation, but the problem seems to continue as the State Forest department says that the Government has not permitted them to recruit more than a 100 front line staff.