Survival of tigers is dependent on conservation and management efforts. To gauge the success of conservation efforts as well as to guide management inputs, it is important to assess the effectiveness of management of Tiger Reserves. This publication aims at compiling management issues and key recommendations evolved from different cycles …
On April 5, 2006, police arrested three wildlife traffickers along with 40 kg tiger bones and a leopard skin at Kalanki in the capital. The confiscated animal parts were found in a wicker basket wrapped in a bed-sheet and placed 40 inches below the ground. On the ground, they (traffickers) …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests today announced the takeover of Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary under Project Tiger Programme. Along with seven other protected forest areas, Satkosia has been brought into the fold of Project Tiger as was decided earlier. As per the Ministry
V1VEK DESHPANDE, NAGPUR, NOVEMBER 11 EVEN as the leopard attacks in Vejgaon have the Forest Department on edge, more trouble is brewing over the shooting down of a tiger in the Talodhi range north of the Tadoba-Andheri Tiger Reserve last November. Ajay Marathe, a Mumbai resident, had filed a Right …
Mumbai, November 11 Two newly born royal Bengal tigers, currently being raised with utmost care in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), will soon become the star attraction of the park
DH News Service, Koppa: Forest squad and police arrested two persons and seized leopard and tiger skins worth Rs 2 lakh, at Koppa bus stop. The arrested have been identified as Dinne Dinesh of NR Pura and Vasantha of B H Kaimara. They were involved in the sale of leopard …
DH News Service, Koppa: The number of attacks by tigers and leopards are on the rise at Gubbugadde limits and cattle at Gunuvanthe, Golikoppa, Thimmanahadlu, Oorumakki, Bahishkar and Sivapura are falling prey to such attacks. The latest incident is that of a cattle belonging to a certain Ratnakar, which was …
NEW DELHI Another big cat is waiting to be relocated at the famous Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan. A tigress is scheduled to be re-introduced in this tiger reserve on November 3 from the neighbouring Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve. A tiger couple was reintroduced in Sariska in July this year, almost …
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 …
BENGALURU A 10-year-old tiger mauled its mother to death at the Bannerghatta Biological Park on Sunday. The incident occurred inside a cage at the Tiger Safari Area around 2.30 pm, when the park, situated 22 km south of Bengaluru, was bustling with weekend visitors. An eyewitness told this newspaper that …
Kolkata Oct. 7: The post-mortem report of the Royal Bengal Tiger, whose body was found floating in a canal at the core area of Sundarbans on Monday evening, revealed that the big cat was killed. Preliminary post-mortem report claims that the tiger had died due to bullet injuries. State forest …
BY YOJNA GUSAI NEW DELHI The proposal by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to upgrade National Highway No. 7, passing through Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, has been halted by Supreme Court
K.S. Sudhi KOCHI: A tigress of the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) was found dead near Anchuruli. The immediate cause of the death of the six-year-old has been confirmed to be starvation. The post-mortem examination found that the animal had suffered a blow on its abdomen leading to muscle rupture and …
K.S. Sudhi KOCHI: Increase in tiger density has been reported from the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) following the recounting of tiger population in the reserve. According to a recent study conducted by the Reserve and the Periyar Foundation, the tiger density of the reserve is 24 tigers in 640 sq. …
This study poses questions concerning the relative effectiveness of different conservation approaches, and is believed to be the first effort to address such questions focusing on wildlife trade drivers and interventions across multiple countries and products in south-east Asia. This research highlighted the diversity of the trade and pointed to …
BY YOJNA GUSAI NEW DELHI European Union and India will not just be deliberating on free trade and world food situation at the EU-India Summit next week at Marseille. Issue of India
The Kaziranga National Park, the last home of the highly endangered one-horned rhinoceros, is facing a peculiar phenomenon: while a considerably large number of rhinos are dying due to old age, tigers are also contributing their own way by killing at least 20 rhino calves every year. This year, for …
Malda, Sept. 19: The Bengal forest department is looking for 300 acres in Jharkhali on the edge of the Sunderbans in South 24-Parganas to set up a tiger rescue centre.
