Simlipal Tiger Reserve, the fourth biggest tiger reserve in the country, may soon go the Sariska way with the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) pointing out an “alarmingly low prey base”
In a bid to ensure greater accountability, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to conduct an annual tiger census from 2012 in all 39 tiger reserves of the country.
With the aim of ensuring safe movement of tigers into different landscapes, the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) is re-establishing tiger corridors.
Unhappy with the latest census that robbed Madhya Pradesh of its ‘tiger state’ status, the state has decided to carry out a fresh ‘sign survey’ in Kanha tiger reserve that has lost several wild cats over the past four years.
Five gaurs, which have been shifted from Kanha to the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, will be released in the wild in March. For the time being, the park administration is monitoring their movement with the help of radio collars.
The last moment decision by a team of forest officials and veterinary experts on Sunday to temporarily abandon the operation to relocate two tigers from Kanha Tiger Reserve to Panna Tiger Reserve puts a question mark on the state forest department
Bhopal: Two hand-reared tigresses from Madhya Pradesh's Kanha Tiger Reserve would soon be shifted to adjacent Panna sanctuary to give company to three translocated big cats there, the first such experiment in the country.
Two hand-reared tigress from Madhya Pradesh's Kanha tiger reserve would soon be shifted to adjacent Panna sanctuary to give company to three translocated big cats there, the first such experiment in the country.
"The two orphaned siblings have been hand-raised since 2005 when their mother was mauled to death by a male tiger and are likely to be translocated this month-end," sanctuary's field di
