India

 What Sariska s taught us

Tigers vanish while tiger wallahs flourish

Publication Date: 
14/04/2005
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Endangered Species, Tiger, Sariska NP
Water Pollution

 Beastly tale

Tigers disappearing in Sariska are a sign of an even more terrible malaise

Publication Date: 
14/04/2005
R K Rao
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Endangered Species, Tiger, Sariska NP
Transport

 Time to tell the truth again

I really hope we are proved wrong when we say there are no tigers left in the Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan. But if it is so, what is now increasingly accepted as a sad fact should actually make

Publication Date: 
14/03/2005
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tiger, National Parks, Sariska NP, Poaching, India, Rajasthan
India

 Maneaten

In September 2004, a group of students from the Wildlife Institute of India (wii), Dehradun, went to the Sariska Tiger Reserve of Rajasthan for training. Excited about their work, they painstakingly trekked through the hilly 866 square kilometres (sq km) reserve. They couldn't spot a single tiger. Alarmed, they informed A J T Johnsingh, dean, department of animal ecology and conservation biology, wii.

Publication Date: 
14/03/2005
Ritu Gupta
Down to Earth
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Forest Personnel, Endangered Species, Wildlife, Tiger, Sariska NP, Tiger Reserves, Poaching, India, Rajasthan
Mining

Mine spoil restoration: a strategy combining rainwater harvesting and adaptation to random recurrence of droughts in Rajasthan

Rajasthan presents evidence for the existence of one of the most advanced works of ancient mining and accompanied deforestation globally. Mining continues to be an important economic activity in Rajasthan. However, economic benefits of mineral extraction also accompany environmental, economic and social costs.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2005
Deep Narayan Pandey, & et al, Avanish C. Chaubey, Anil K. Gupta
International Network on Ethnoforestry
Tags:
Mining, Minerals, Water Harvesting, Sariska NP, Rajasthan
Wildlife

Joining the dots: the report of the tiger task force

The Tiger Task Force was set up because of a crisis

Publication Date: 
Dec 2004
Sunita Narain
Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (India)
Tags:
Habitat, Wildlife, Tiger, Sariska NP, Tiger Conservation, Project Tiger, Tiger Reserves, India, Rajasthan
Wildlife

Gujjar pastoralists and conflict with forest: A case study from Rajasthan

Gujjars, a pastoralist community, prefer wilderness for their habitats. In Rajasthan, one tract of Gujjars habitats is mainly scattered around Sariska, a world fame Tiger Reserve, nowadays very much in news because of the tigers vanishing from it. The Sariska is spread over 866 square km areas.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2004
Aman Singh
Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan
Tags:
Forests, Grazing Lands, Livestock, Forest Resources, Pastoral Nomads, Gujjar, Wildlife, Sariska NP, Tiger Conservation, People - Animal Conflicts
India

 The birds sing

A lament for forest change at Sariska

Publication Date: 
14/11/2003
Nitin Sethi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Birds, Sariska NP, Research, India, Rajasthan, Statistics
Climate Change

 Breaking the ice

The long standing people wildlife dispute in Sariska Tiger Reserve is closer to a resolution

Publication Date: 
14/10/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tiger, Sariska NP, Public Participation, Alwar (D)
India

 Of large carnivores and humans

How does a civilisation relate to the environment? To find out, study its attitude towards large carnivores. Europeans have tried to dominate nature. In the process, they have exterminated several large carnivores like the wolf. But communities in India

Publication Date: 
14/07/1999
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Lifestyles, Sariska NP, Tiger Reserves, Europe, India, Animal Menace

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