Wildlife

Tiger safety: High Court notice to Centre, NTCA, Rajasthan government

JAIPUR: Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to the Union ministry of environment and forests, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the state government over non-implementation of th

Publication Date: 
21/01/2016
Times Of India (Jaipur)
Tags:
Rajasthan, Tiger, National Tiger Conservation Authority, High Court, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Tiger Conservation, Wildlife
Wildlife

Toward human-carnivore coexistence: Understanding tolerance for tigers in Bangladesh

Fostering local community tolerance for endangered carnivores, such as tigers (Panthera tigris), is a core component of many conservation strategies. Identification of antecedents of tolerance will facilitate the development of effective tolerance-building conservation action and secure local community support for, and involvement in, conservation initiatives.

Publication Date: 
13/01/2016
Chloe Inskip, Neil Carter, Shawn Riley & et al
PLoS ONE
1-20
Tags:
Wildlife And People, Coexistence Strategies, Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Bangladesh, South Asia, Endangered Species, Sundarbans
Wildlife

Beyond the realms of Ranthambhore: Status report on tiger and its prey in the Western India Tiger Landscape

Beyond the realms of Ranthambhore’, a status report on tiger and its prey in the wildlife habitats of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, aims at enabling improved and precise conservation strategies. The Ranthambhore National Park, located in WWF-India’s Western India Tiger Landscape is the westernmost arid zone range for wild tigers in the world.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2016
WWF India
Tags:
Ranthambore NP, Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tiger Reserves, Poaching, Protected Area Conservation
Wildlife

India has ‘too many’ tigers!

As India is home to nearly 70 per cent of world’s tiger population, the Union Environment Ministry is planning to relocate some of the big cats to Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, where they have ei

Publication Date: 
28/12/2015
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tiger, India, WWF, Panna NP, Tiger Reserves, Tiger Conservation, Nepal, Endangered Species, Census/ Habitat Monitoring, Wildlife
Wildlife

Unique rally in Melghat to spread tiger, community conservation

NAGPUR: The unique bicycle rally on "World Pollution Control Day" for propagating government schemes on tiger conservation and community development was organized by Satpuda Foundation in Melghat o

Publication Date: 
03/12/2015
Vijay Pinjarkar
Times of India (Nagpur)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Endangered Species, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Amravati (D), Wildlife
Wildlife

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Protection of Tigers, 30/11/2015

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Protection of Tigers, 30/11/2015. Several milestone initiatives have been taken by the Government of India for protection and conservation of tigers and other wild animals, and the same is at Annexure-I.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2015
Rajya Sabha
Tags:
Tiger, Tiger Conservation, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Wildlife, India, Parliament
Wildlife

Earning their stripes in tiger conservation

Everything in the Dhanwatey household spells heritage, be it antique furniture, pictures of tigers staring at you from old frames or century-old trees surrounding their ancestral house.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2015
Manka Behl
Times of India (Nagpur)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Tiger Conservation, Flora, Fauna, Tiger Reserves, Tribals, Chandrapur (D), Endangered Species, Wildlife
Wildlife

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding tiger conservation, 19/11/2015

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Tribunal at its own motion vs. Ministry of Environment and Ors. dated 19/11/2015 regarding unsystematic growth coupled with human intervention into the habitat and areas of movement of the tigers and particularly the corridors leading to man-animal conflict with the worst case scenario of tigers losing their life in that event.

Judgement Date: 
20/11/2015
Tags:
Tiger Conservation, National Green Tribunal (NGT), People - Animal Conflicts, Court, Forest Encroachments, India
Wildlife

NGT asks forest officials to explain tigers straying into Bhopal

National Green Tribunal (NGT) has raised concerns over possible 'man-animal conflict' due to three tigers that have strayed into Bhopal from Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuary.

Publication Date: 
03/11/2015
Rageshri Ganguly
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Tiger, People - Animal Conflicts, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Ratapani SA, Tiger Conservation, Endangered Species, Wildlife
Wildlife

Tiger conservation plan release, website launch to mark Wildlife Week in Doon

Release of the tiger conservation plan of Corbett tiger reserve and launch of the Rajaji tiger reserve website are among the activities slated to be held to mark the start of the Wildlife Week in D

Publication Date: 
01/10/2015
Pioneer (Dehradun)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Tiger Conservation, Rajaji NP, Corbett NP, Wildlife

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