With a large chunk of the funds remaining unutilised till the end of the fiscal, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has asked the two tiger reserves of the State to send in their annual
Poaching was the cause of most deaths, says National Tiger Conservation Authority
The country lost 63 of its wild tigers in 2013. The first tiger death of the year was reported from the South Brahmapuri forest range of Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, on January 6, 2013 caused by suspected poaching. The last wild tiger death of the year was reported from the Heggadadevana Kote range of the Mysore forest division in Karnataka on December 28, 2013 and the cause is under investigation.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has constituted a six-member committee to review the proposal of the Assam Government on safeguarding wildlife in relation with the National Highway-3
Bangalore: In a month’s time, almost every inch of Nagarahole tiger reserve will be monitored and photographed 24x7 with 400 cameras set to be installed in different parts of the reserve.It is for the first time in the state that an entire tiger reserve is being covered by camera traps
Having completed the field work of tiger census for a week in the Sathyamangalam forests, the Forest Department is now in the process of compiling data for submitting it to the Wildlife Institute o
Four rare melanistic (black) golden cats (Captopuma Temminckii) and rare Chinese pangolins were sighted at Pakke Tiger Reserve in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, forest officials said he
The second phase of the tiger enumeration exercise will commence in the first week of January and entail camera-trapping of tigers and leopards in Bandipur.
The first phase of the census concluded on Monday with the volunteers dispersing after six days of data collection pertaining to carnivores, herbivores, and the surrounding vegetations at Bandipur, Nagarahole, BRT Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhadra, Anshi-Dandeli, and other reserve forests.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority has refused to give its nod for reintroduction of white tigers in Madhya Pradesh saying they have no "conservation value", a decision that may come as a se
As many as 371 tigers have died in the country in the past five years — 119 of which were victims of poaching, a report published on the National Tiger Conservation Authority’s (NTCA) website state
