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‘Tigers are our brothers’: Understanding human-nature relations in the Mishmi Hills, Northeast India

Human-nature relations are diverse, multifaceted and often contradictory, especially the relationships with animals. Mishmi people living on the Sino-India border claim tigers to be their brothers and take credit for tiger protection as they observe taboos against hunting tigers. Drawing on this notion of relatedness with tigers, local residents of the Dibang Valley question the governments’ recent plans to declare the Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary into Dibang Tiger Reserve and its scientific surveys of tigers and habitat mapping.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2016
Ambika Aiyadurai
Conservation and Society
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Tags:
Tiger, Mishmi, North East, Hunting, Biodiversity, Tiger Conservation, Dibang Valley, Arunachal, Sanctuaries, Tiger Reserves, Wildlife And People
Wildlife

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Illegal Deforestation and Mining, 29/11/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Illegal Deforestation and Mining, 29/11/2016. The Government of India through the National Tiger Conservation Authority has taken
a number of milestone initiatives to protect and conserve tiger and other wildlife. The details are at Annexure-I.

Publication Date: 
29/11/2016
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Tiger Reserves, National Tiger Conservation Authority, India, Parliament, Wildlife
Wildlife

The road ahead: protecting tigers from Asia’s infrastructure development boom

With massive infrastructure plans threatening all tiger landscapes and risking recent gains in tiger conservation, Asian governments must adopt a sustainable approach to infrastructure planning and construction or drive tigers toward extinction, according to a new analysis by WWF.

Publication Date: 
22/11/2016
WWF
Tags:
Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Infrastructure Development, Wildlife, Asia, India, Tiger Reserves
Wildlife

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Protection of tigers, 21/11/2016

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Protection of tigers, 21/11/2016. Based on the country level All India Tiger Estimation done once in four years, the number of tigers in different tiger range States are at Annexure-I. The tiger reserve-wise number of tigers, as per latest estimation is at Annexure-II. Several steps have been taken by the Government of India to conserve and protect tigers and other wildlife in tiger reserves, which are at Annexure-III.

Publication Date: 
Monday, November 21, 2016
Rajya Sabha
Tags:
Tiger, Tiger Reserves, Tiger Conservation, India, Statistics, Parliament
Wildlife

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Protection of tigers, 21/11/2016

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Protection of tigers, 21/11/2016. Based on the country level All India Tiger Estimation done once in four years, the number of tigers in different tiger range States are at Annexure-I. The tiger reserve-wise number of tigers, as per latest estimation is at Annexure-II. Several steps have been taken by the Government of India to conserve and protect tigers and other wildlife in tiger reserves, which are at Annexure-III.

Publication Date: 
Monday, November 21, 2016
Rajya Sabha
Tags:
Tiger, Tiger Reserves, Tiger Conservation, India, Statistics, Parliament
Wildlife

Bandipur tiger killing points to poaching, say conservationists

The brutal killing of an adult male tiger on August 12 in Bandipur Tiger Reserve points to a clear cut case of poaching, say wildlife conservationists from this area.

Publication Date: 
25/08/2016
Meera Bhardwaj
New Indian Express (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Tiger, Poaching, Tiger Conservation, Bandipur NP, Tiger Reserves, Endangered Species, Wildlife
Wildlife

'Not many reasons to be happy for tigers' (July 29 is International Tiger Day)

With over 10,000 tigers including other big cats in captivity globally, rampant tiger poaching in India, shrinking green-corridors in Asia and three sub-species extinct, experts see "no happy times

Publication Date: 
29/07/2016
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tiger, Endangered Species, Tiger Conservation, WWF, Asia, Wildlife
Environment

World Nature Conservation day: 5 things India is doing to protect its resources

World Nature Conservation day is celebrated on July 28 across the world in order to raise awareness about protecting nature and conserving our natural resources.

Publication Date: 
29/07/2016
Daily News Analysis (Delhi)
Tags:
Urbanisation, Deforestation, Wildlife Trade, Environmental Security, Waste Management, Tiger Conservation, Wetlands, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environment
Wildlife

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Population of tigers, 25/07/2016

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Population of tigers, 25/07/2016. The details of tiger population in the country for the years 2010 and 2014 are at Annexure-I. Several milestone initiatives have been taken by the Government of India through the National Tiger Conservation Authority for protection and conservation of tigers and other wild animals, and the same are at Annexure-II.

Publication Date: 
Monday, July 25, 2016
Rajya Sabha
Tags:
Tiger, Tiger Conservation, India, Statistics, Parliament, National Tiger Conservation Authority
Wildlife

Corbett tiger safari project in soup

DEHRADUN: The Centre has red flagged a proposed tiger safari project in Uttarakhand's Corbett National Park and asked the state government to first comply with wildlife norms.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2016
Seema Sharma
Times Of India (Dehradun)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Corbett NP, Tiger, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Endangered Species, Biodiversity, Tiger Conservation, Wildlife

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