New Delhi: The Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday gave green signal to reintroduce cheetah in three locations in the country. The project will cost around Rs 300 crore in the first year itself and will also displace over 100 settlements.
Sariska/Jaipur: Almost two years after three tigers were relocated to Sariska, a fourth big cat was moved from Ranthambore National Park by road on Tuesday. The male tiger, T-12, was tranquillised on Tuesday around 11 am, caged, and put on a truck to Sariska. This was the first relocation by road; all the three tigers in the past were shifted on an IAF chopper.
Wildlife authorities have sounded an alert for Ranthambhore and Sariska tiger sanctuaries in the State following the death of some tigers in the Siberian region of Russia by an unknown disease during the past one month. The alert came ahead of plans to shift two more tigers from Ranthambhore to Sariska on July 4.
Jaipur: Famous the world over for offering wide variety of wildlife at destinations like Ranthambore National Park and Keoladeo National Park, the desert state may soon turn into home for cheetahs, which the Union government is planning to introduce. The government plans to bring cheetahs to India from African countries.
xperts have already identified new pair of tigers at Ranthambore
Jaipur: After a lull of a few months, the state government has renewed its effort to relocate a pair of big cats from the Ranthambore National Park to the Sariska Tiger Reserve.
Amidst reports of tiger deaths, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel with wildlife officials spotting over 112 big cat cubs in national parks across the country.
Concerned over 14 big cats dying in the last three months, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to convene a three-day meeting of wildlife officials of tiger-range states to review protection strategy in national parks.
