Wildlife officials of Odisha have adopted a denial mode and rejected the National Tiger Conservation Authority’s (NTCA) report which says there has been a sharp decline in tiger population in the S

In a first of its kind exercise, India has conducted economic valuation of six of its tiger reserves and placed their value at Rs 1,49,900 crore.

Even as news of a staggering 30 per cent increase in India’s endangered tiger population is celebrated the world over, the survey methodology has drawn criticism from ecologist Ullas Karanth, direc

Call grows louder after Census reports presence of five big cats in Goa region

Even as the state forest department is happy with the marginal rise in tiger numbers from 169 in 2010 to 190 in 2014, are these numbers arrived at by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and Natio

For involving local people in managing the habitat

Uttarakhand is now second only to Karnataka in tiger density, the new tiger census released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests on Tuesday has revealed.

This is the third round of the country level assessment of Tigers, Co-predators and Prey, using the refined methodology. As a country having the maximum number of tigers and their source area, India also has the unique distinction of embarking on this refined methodology across all forested habitats and tiger States within the country.

NAGPUR: The four-member high-powered committee set up by ministry of environment, forests & climate change (MoEFCC) to study the impact of Human dam project on tiger corridor and provide sugges

Alarmed by the critically endangered status of vultures in the country, the forthcoming tiger census will also include the count of raptors from the respective States along with big cats.

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