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 …
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 …
The country’s Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone openly selling illegal wildlife according to report by the Environmental Investigation Agency A resort complex in northwest Laos targeting Chinese visitors has become a “lawless playground” for the trade in illegal wildlife ranging from tiger meat to bear paws, an advocacy group said …
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 …
There has been a 30 per cent rise in the population of tigers in the country and their current count stands at 2,226, the Lok Sabha was informed. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar informed the House that 22 poachers were also killed last year in encounters with enforcement agencies. “There are …
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 …
KOZHIKODE: Amid raging debate among conservation scientists over the methodology adopted for the country's latest tiger count which some say could have resulted in 'inflated' numbers, the camera traps laid by the state forest department at a man-animal conflict site last month have captured five tigers and five leopards in …
RANCHI: Poor biological management in Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) has led to a drastic fall in the number of tigers over the past 10 years. From 42 in 2003, the number of tigers has come down to three plus in 2014. Experts believe that human intervention and poor ecological management …
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 …
With poachers and depleting green cover already posing threats, the critically endangered tigers now have excavators for company in a Karnataka forest. It sounds funny but it is true that the heavy construction equipment are "roaring" inside a tiger reserve of the state. This is in violation of rules, which …
Two Madhya Pradesh government departments are at odds over restarting of a carcass utilisation plant inside a wildlife sanctuary which activists say poses threat to tigers living in the area. While the animal husbandry department is trying hard to get the plant operational, which has been not working for about …
Number of tigers died in 2014 has increased to 78, due to both poaching and natural reasons, parliament was informed on Tuesday. In 2013, number cases of tiger death were 68 and in 2012 it was at 89, enviornment minister Prakash Javadekar said in a written reply to a question …
China’s booming e-commerce websites have carried thousands of advertisements for illegal wildlife products including ivory, rhino horn and tiger bone, a wildlife trade monitoring network said on Tuesday. More than half of such products offered online in recent months are ivory, the British group Traffic found in a survey of …
According to highly-placed sources in the environment ministry, the increase in wildlife crime involving lesser-known species will now be tracked by Interpol, jointly with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), the wildlife intelligence arm of the ministry. Among the major species whose poaching and illegal trade in the international market …
Against a total of 47 tiger reserves at present including 13 sensitive tiger reserves, Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF) has been raised, armed and deployed only in four tiger reserves. These include Bandipur (Karnataka), Tadoba-Andhari and Pench (Maharashtra) and Similipal (Odisha). This was stated by Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar in …
Reigniting the debate over India's tiger census, which has shown a 30% rise in the big cat's population in four years, a British-Indian team of scientists has said the exercise mostly likely suffers from a measuring error — a finding rebuffed by experts involved in the census exercise. At the …
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 …
Recently, a video was captured in China that showed a family of tigers in an area that has not been inhabited by the large cats for more than 65 years. Now, though, scientists have called the rise of the tiger population into question by pointing out flaws in a method …
