The increasing global temperature may spell doom for the Sunderban tigers as a WWF study has cautioned that rise of 28 centimetre in sea levels will engulf 96 per cent of their habitat.
The tiger census to be carried out in 2010 will see more camera traps being installed in the field to capture the movements of big cats. This, among other strategies, will be employed for census.
The training of UP Forest officials conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India under Project Tiger for carrying out the census completed at the Corbett National Park recently.
State Environment and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain today informed that the State has entered into a tripartite agreement involving the National Park Authority and the Central Government for the implementation of the Project Tiger Foundation in the State. Assam is among the five States of the country to have entered into such an agreement.
A green backdrop in the wake of the recent monsoon fails to hide the stumps of fullygrown Sagaun trees that once stood on Kashiram"s fields in Dadudhana village of Betul district. The septuagenarian Dalit, along with his son Ramcharan, still awaits payment from a dodgy contractor who logged 200 trees of precious timber on his private land.
A hapless Bhimrao and Shanta
The wildlife in Bandipur is endangered by highway traffic-----
Death Count
? A tiger and an elephant
? Seven langurs, two leopards
? Six mongoose, three sloth bear
? Nineteen spotted deer, eleven sambhar, ten shikras, nine Indian hare
? Eleven bonnet macaque, six red-vented bulbul, seven jungle owlet, eight egret, six drongo.
? Five spectacled cobras
NEW DELHI, July 14: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply to a question put by Nand Kishore Yadav and Kamal Akhtar that Rs 682.68 crore was allocated from 1973-74 to 2009-10 for the Project Tiger scheme in which a total of Rs 13.61 crore was released for Asom
