New Delhi: Tigers in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve were poached in connivance with forest officials, an internal state government report has admitted.

One of the most successful efforts to rehabilitate villagers from a tiger reserve is now being conducted at Madhya Pradesh’s Kanha park: 28 villages in the core reserve area have already been reloc

The tiger population is facing a growing threat from heavy traffic with the ministry of surface transport demanding environmental clearances for 17 highways across tiger reserves from the ministry

ALWAR/JAIPUR: The state forest department, in a move to safeguard wild animals, will form protection groups comprising villagers living in the core areas of forests.

SARISKA: The state government on Thursday resumed a probe that had been ordered in 2005 after it came to light that all tigers in the Sariska reserve have been poached.

The tigress to be relocated to the Sariska tiger reserve has been identified. The Sultanpur tigress in Kota will be first of the three tigresses to be relocated. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has already granted permission to the state for this. 

 

JAIPUR: Tourists will now have a new destination in the Pink City. Laced with promises of a near Sariska or even a Ranthambore-like experience sans the distance and the cost, the state forest department will shortly be inaugurating a new jungle safari at the sprawling Nahargarh Biological Park on the Jaipur-Delhi highway.

JAIPUR: After tigers, it is now the turn of cheetals and sambhars to get relocated to various sanctuaries in the state.

ALWAR: The death of ST-1, the first relocated tiger to the Sariska reserve, may have been the result of a fallout of negligence of higher officials of the reserve and not just that of the lower rank staff or that of the team from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) that had been given the task of monitoring the tiger's movements.

The new twist to the death of the big cat comes with the surfac

JAIPUR: It's an all-time record for Ranthambore National Park. Within an year, 18 cubs were born in the park to various tigresses. Officials say that the figure is a magical one and that such a mark has been set for the first time.

The latest tigress to add to the celebrations was T-19, which was spotted taking a stroll in the Nalghati area of the park with three of its cubs.

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