Faced with reservations expressed by wildlife experts and NTCA officials, Jairam Ramesh has shelved his ambitious plan of involving the World Bank in the country's tiger conservation programme.

India does not plan to move the World Bank for getting aid for conservation of tigers in the country.

A national website on tiger conservation, www.tigernet.nic.in, was launched by Union minister of forest and environment Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday. Speaking at a press conference, the minister pointed out that this would be the first consolidated database to provide an update on tiger deaths and details of tiger poaching.

RASHME SEHGAL

The loss of two tigers in the first six days of 2010 has brought a sense of urgency back to saving the Indian tiger.

Seventeen tiger states have, for the first time, simultaneously launched a massive year-long wildlife census to come up with an accurate estimate of the tiger population in the country.

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on Wednesday decided not to accept the World Bank

New Delhi is seeking the support of the World Bank in highlighting efforts to keep alive India's national emblem, the near-extinct wild tiger, as China and Russia champion their own conservation efforts.

India is facing pressure to raise the profile of the animal's plight as China celebrates 2010 as the Year of the Tiger and Russia is due to host an international summit on its survival.

ITANAGAR, Jan 5: Taking a hint from the WWF revelation that tigers were the most endangered species on the planet at the moment, State Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu today laid specific stress on conservation and preservation for posterity of the world

The most contentious issue between the Centre and the state on tiger conservation

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu today stressed on immediate relocation of Lissu tribal community members from Namdapha National Park to arrest the decline in tiger population there.