WildTeam’s efforts in tiger conservation include empowering more than 350 village volunteers around the forest edge to save human, livestock, and tiger lives through the Village Tiger Response Team

The Periyar Tiger Reserve is preparing for the tiger census, 2014, with the support of a modern technique for identifying and tagging each tiger for more effective conservation.

The reserve will be the first in the country to give identification numbers to each tiger without outside support. The tigers are being numbered so that there will be a transparent way of finding out if any one goes missing.

Uttarakhand's famous Rajaji Park which recently got the status of a National Park is likely to become a tiger reserve in a month, a senior forest official said.

"With a long-pending notification giving it the status of a national park already issued, we are now focusing on getting the tiger reserve status for the park," Principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife) Savya Sachi Sharma said.

The standard operating procedure (SOP) laid down by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to deal with man-eating tigers or leopards was not followed in the case of the hunt for the man-

Relocation of a few tribal villages from the Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR) in Adilabad district as an important measure towards improvement of the habitat has once again come to the fore following the

Noted wildlife filmmaker Subbaiah Nallamuthu on Monday said instead of blaming the government, the onus should be laid on individual efforts towards protecting the tiger and spreading awareness for

Four species of animals which had apparently disappeared from the neglected Valmiki Tiger Reserve have been recently discovered there.

Tiger conservationist Belinda Wright has slammed the idea of large-scale tourism in the Sunderbans, saying "it would be a complete disaster".

“Loss of reproduction owing to disturbance on account of heavily-used infrastructure like highways” is one of the reasons for decline of tiger population, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan sa

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - India, an NGO, has contributed its mite to initiatives aimed at strengthening conservation at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) by providing patrolling and wir

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