Conservation efforts set in motion in 1973 paying rich dividends now
Udhagamandalam: The Nilgiri landscape is ideal for conserving wild animals, observed the Field Director, Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Rajiv K.
The first district-level consultation meeting of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel held here on Tuesday ran into rough weather with green activists from various parts of the Nilgiris district and Coimbatore staging a walkout.
Tarsh Thekaekara's response (4 September 2010) to our article "Can a Tiger Change its Stripes? The Politics of Conservation as Translated in Mudumalai" is welcomed for opening up in public a debate on tiger reserves that has remained regrettably confined to the corridors of power.
THE government is likely to clip the wings of the operators of tourist resorts warning against late night activities such as booze party, music, dance, heavy lighting and movement of vehicles near the elephant corridors in the Nilgiris.
According to highly-placed sources, the State government has given a nod to the chief wildlife warden to stop the hindrances to the elephants
Several studies on the functions and nature of ecosystems, particularly in the tropical rainforest, highlighting rich diversity with high deforestation rates have been found in the global carbon literature. The tropical forests of India and its vulnerable carbon stocks have been inadequately studied.
The notification of Mudumalai Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu as a tiger reserve in 2007 has resulted in a contested politics between activists, non-governmental organisations and conservationists with regard to the future of protected area management.
