'Huli,' developed by Forest department helps consolidation of data

It demands the iron ore miner’s right to mine in land that MoEF says is a tiger corridor

The National Green Tribunal’s powers to take up cases about wildlife have been challenged. The question of the tribunal’s jurisdiction has cropped up in a petition filed by an iron ore miner in Kohlapur, Maharashtra, asking for renewing his right to mine in a piece of land the government has said is a tiger corridor.

Poaching of tigers in 2013 has been the highest in the past seven years, data compiled by the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) shows.

2,000 Officials Deployed As Part Of Nation-Wide Exercise

A team of 50 forest department officials, scouting for the presence of tigers, entered the dense forests of the Periyar Tiger Reserve on Monday morning and were in the reserve till sun down.

The third synchronized all India tiger census that is held once in every four years will begin on Monday.

Maharashtra government on Thursday issued notification of Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR). This is the fifth Tiger Reserve in the state after Melghat, Tadoba, Pench and Sahyadri.

The state has indefinitely postponed the release of the Sunderbans tigress that is undergoing treatment in captivity at Sajnekhali.

Chief wildlife warden N C Bahuguna said that following a recent directive of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), which ruled out the release of the big cat at the moment, the three-year-old tigress will now be shifted to a bigger enclosure close to the forests so that it can get acclimatized to the wild environment. The tigress will also get to hone her hunting skills, with the foresters planning to release wild prey in its enclosure.

In a major success, the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) management relocated 32 families from two settlements located in the core critical area of the tiger habitat.

The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) decision to allow capture of 20 forest owlets in east and west Melghat divisions outside Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) has come in for sharp criticism b

National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has notified Navegaon-Nagzira as fifth tiger reserve of the state and 46th of the country.