Tiger Conservation

Status and conservation of tigers and their prey in the Uttar Pradesh Terai

This report presents information on the ecology and status of tigers and wild ungulates in a portion of the Terai Arc Landscape that lies between the town of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh and Suhelwa WLS in Balrampur District of Uttar Pradesh, referred to as the Central Terai Landscape.

Publication Date:

25/09/2014

Author(s): Chanchani, P., Bista A., Warrier, R., Nair, S., Sharma, Hassan, D, Gupta, M.

Source: WWF India

Tags:

Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Uttar Pradesh, Tiger Reserves, Dudhwa NP, Wildlife Management

Wildlife

Four-year scheme launched to protect Sundarbans tigers

A four-year “Bengal Tiger Conservation Activity (Bagh)” has been launched to protect the Bengal Tiger, one of the critically endangered species of the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove for

Publication Date:

18/09/2014

Source: Daily Sun (Bangladesh)

Tags:

Wildlife, Tiger, Endangered Species, Tiger Conservation, Bangladesh, Sundarbans, South Asia

Wildlife

Tigers of the trans-boundary Terai Arc Landscape: status, distribution and movement in the Terai of India and Nepal

While the conservation of tigers is emphasized in protected areas throughout their range countries, the species continues to be distributed in forests of varying protection status, and in habitats that span international borders.

Publication Date:

17/09/2014

Source: Global Tiger Forum (GTF)

Tags:

Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Tiger Reserves, India, Nepal, Protected Area Conservation, Chitwan, Dudhwa NP, Valmiki SA, Wildlife

Wildlife

Global wild tiger population to be counted by 2016: international conference

Dhaka, Bangladesh: Thirteen countries with wild tiger populations agreed on Tuesday to take part in a global count to establish how many of the critically endangered big cats are left and improve p

Publication Date:

17/09/2014

Source: Age (Australia)

Tags:

Wildlife, Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Endangered Species, India, Bangladesh, South Asia

Wildlife

Bangladesh Meet Begins to Save Endangered Tigers

Some 140 tiger experts and government officials from 20 countries met in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday to review progress towards an ambitious goal of doubling their number in the wild by

Publication Date:

17/09/2014

Source: Sudan Vision (Sudan)

Tags:

Wildlife, Tiger, Endangered Species, Tiger Conservation, Bangladesh, South Asia, Bhutan, China, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam

Wildlife

Second global tiger stocktaking conference and Sundarbans tiger conservation landscape

Bangladesh Forest Department under the Ministry of Environment and Forests is organizing the three-day conference in cooperation with Global Tiger Initiative, Global Tiger Forum and development partners, including the World Bank aimed at saving the big cat from its extinction.

Publication Date:

16/09/2014

Author(s): Tapan Kumar

Source: Bangladesh Forest Department

Tags:

Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Sundarbans, Asia, India, Tiger Reserves, Poaching

Wildlife

Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation

Conserving wildlife while simultaneously meeting the resource needs of a growing human population is a major sustainability challenge. As such, using combined social and environmental perspectives to understand how people and wildlife are interlinked, together with the mechanisms that may weaken or strengthen those linkages, is of utmost importance. However, such integrated information is lacking.

Publication Date:

01/09/2014

Author(s): Neil H. Carter, Andrés Viña, Vanessa Hull & et al

Source: Ecology and Society

Vol:

19

Issue:

3

pp:

1-18

Tags:

Wildlife, Wildlife And People, Ecosystems, National Parks, Nepal, China, Tiger Conservation, Endangered Species, Wildlife Management, Protected Area Conservation, Forest Products, Ecosystem Services, People - Animal Conflicts

Wildlife

More tigers than reserves can handle, say experts

While tiger conservation efforts in the country have started giving encouraging results, tiger biologists fear a probable increase in human-wildlife conflict if prompt measures are not taken to dea

Publication Date:

22/08/2014

Author(s): Jotirmay Thapliyal

Source: Tribune (New Delhi)

Tags:

India, Tiger Conservation, People - Animal Conflicts, Tiger Reserves, Wayanad, Corbett NP, Kanha NP, Wildlife

Wildlife

Wildlife body voices concern over leopard poaching in India

India has made progress in conserving tigers but leopards are killed in high numbers in the country for illegal trade, says a global study on four species of Asian big cats including lions in Gujar

Publication Date:

19/08/2014

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

India, Leopard, Poaching, Endangered Species, Tiger Conservation, Wildlife

Wildlife