lucknow: Even as the Forest Department has its hands full trying to track down two stray tigers in Ghazipur and Faizabad, another one surfaced near Tanda village of Lakhimpur Kheri district and killed a 16-year-old boy on Sunday. Pillu Singh was killed by the tiger, which Forest officials suspect, strayed from the nearby Kishanpur Sanctuary.
Lucknow: Both the agencies work towards the same purpose - conservation of the wildlife. One is shouting foul as the other wants to kill the stray tiger which has been running for life for the last one month.The shoot-at-sight orders of the Chief Wildlife Warden could end the big cat
Pre-empting the annual National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) meeting, slated to be held soon, 11 independent NBWL members met Ministry of Environment and Forests officials on Monday and demanded a separate wildlife cadre, dedicated to wildlife management.
The old pugmark is transforming into a digital footprint.
With real time information available through observation of tigers fitted with satellite collars, GPS collars and radio VHF collars, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is for the first time creating a system for a central database on tiger movement and analysis.
Two years after an amendment in the Wildlife (Protection) Act that makes formal notification of tiger reserves mandatory, The Indian Express has found that three states in the country are yet to notify their tiger reserves.
