JAIPUR: Three years after the relocation of the first tiger to the Sariska reserve, an initiative has been launched to rebuild the lost glory of the reserve.

JAIPUR: Radio collar on tigers will soon become a thing of the past. The state forest department is working on a plan wherein trap cameras will take pictures of tigers in the forests and transmit them to a centre for the department to monitor movements of the big cats.

RN Mehrotra, head of forest forces in Rajasthan, said: "We have prepared a plan and sent it to the Centre.

JAIPUR: Three years after the relocation of the first tiger to the Sariska reserve, an initiative has been launched to rebuild the lost glory of the reserve.

If the one-time dacoit-ravaged, poacher-infested Panna National Park in Madhya Pradesh gives a complex to Rajasthan wildlife authorities and conservationists alike, that is all because of female fecundity.

JAIPUR: It has been about three years since the first tiger was re-located to Sariska National Park from Ranthambhore.

JAIPUR: With the Ranthambore tiger reserve embarking on a census, the focus will be on five tigers that wildlife activists claim to be missing from the park for a long time.

The forest authorities have employed around 450 officials in Rajasthan's Sariska Tiger Reserve to under take the census. The census, which began on Thursday will end on 18 May. The first phase of the census has been dedicated to record pug marks of tiger and panthers and it will be completed on May 11.

JAIPUR: The forest department on Thursday began the census at Sariska tiger reserve despite knowing that there are just five tigers at the reserve. The same will commence at Ranthambore two days later.

While 150 persons would be involved in the fortnight-long exercise at Sariska, Ranthambore will see 600 people including staff, forest guards, NGOs and wildlife lovers participate in it.

A hitherto little noticed Sawai Man Singh Sanctuary has crowned itself with glory in the annals of tiger conservation in the post-Project Tiger era in the country by playing host to a new tiger family.

MAKING RESIDENTS OF TIGER FORESTS PARTNERS IN CONSERVATION IS KEY TO SECURING THE FUTURE OF THE BIG CAT
M D Madhusudan & Pavithra Sankaran

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