Ananya Dutta

KOLKATA: The Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) in north Bengal finally had its Kodak moment when a beat officer photographed a sub-adult tiger with a film camera

Says He Will Not Allow Chhindwara Highway To Cut Through Tiger Reserve

BLAMED by his Cabinet colleagues, particularly surface transport minister Kamal Nath, of stalling projects, environment minister Jairam Ramesh hit back saying he would further increase the rejection rate of projects.

Alipurduar: Buxa can breathe a little easy: a Royal Bengal tiger

Panna: Wildlife in Panna Tiger Reserve is falling victim to not just poachers but also speeding vehicles.

''Between January 9 and March 10, vehicles knocked down two nilgai, four sambar, a boar, two hyenas, six jackals, a rabbit, a fox, two langoors and a chital with the maximum fatalities in Mandla area,'' Reserve Director R Sriniwas Murthy told reporters.

LALIT SHASTRI

The Madhya Pradesh forest minister Sartaj Singh was off the mark when he said in a written reply to a question in the state Assembly on Monday that a tiger recently relocated from the Pench Tiger Reserve to Panna Tiger Reserve had been radio-collared and was being monitored constantly even when it had strayed outside the Park territory.

The tiger has become the latest expression of political correctness. Look around: schoolchildren on roads, national icons on screens and big brands in campaign mode. The government has pumped in additional funds. Conservation NGOs are mushrooming in all corners of India. Green blogging is catching on like wildfire.

Sunny Sebastian

One of the young male tigers found dead outside the Ranthambhor National Park over the past weekend