Wildlife

Tiger Foundation to be formed in State

P. Oppili

It will streamline functioning of Project Tiger

A memorandum of understanding will be signed soon

State has three Project Tiger Reserves

CHENNAI: A

Publication Date: 
28/08/2009
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Wildlife, Tiger, Project Tiger, Tiger Reserves, Tamil Nadu
Wildlife

Forest officials kept eyes tightly shut

When it was found there were no tigers in the Panna Tiger Reserve, P K Sen was called to join the government special investigation team. Former head of Project Tiger, he told Sumana Narayanan the department

Publication Date: 
15/08/2009
Sumana Narayanan
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forest Personnel, Endangered Species, Wildlife, Tiger, Census/ Habitat Monitoring, Panna NP, Tiger Reserves, Poaching, Wildlife Tourism, Supreme Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India
Wildlife

 Forest officials kept eyes tightly shut

“We found several pugmarks had the toes rounded off. We realized the park staff were creating pugmarks with casts ” When it was found there were no tigers in the Panna Tiger Reserve, P K Sen was called to join the government special investigation team. Former head of Project Tiger, he told Sumana Narayanan the

Publication Date: 
14/08/2009
Sumana Narayanan
Down to Earth
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Forest Personnel, Endangered Species, Wildlife, Tiger, Census/ Habitat Monitoring, Panna NP, Tiger Reserves, Poaching, Wildlife Tourism, Supreme Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India
Dams/ Irrigation

 Relocation by half measure

Farmers shifted from tiger reserve two years ago denied irrigation In 2007, 140 families were relocated from Botezari and Kolsa villages inside the Tadoba-Andhari tiger reserve in Maharashtra. The families, mostly subsistence farmers, were given a new address 70 km away

Publication Date: 
14/08/2009
Aparna Pallavi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Dams/ Irrigation, Minor Forest Produce, Conflicts, Rehabilitation, Tadoba NP, Andhari SA, Tiger Reserves, Relocation, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Maharashtra
Wildlife

Protecting big cats, govts new priority

Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore, DH News Service:

The reserve involves the State

Publication Date: 
10/08/2009
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Wildlife, Tiger, Bandipur NP, Tiger Reserves, Karnataka, Nagarhole NP
Forests

Declare Chandradrona hills as forest land

Mullaiahnagiri, Bababudangiri, Kemmangundi chain of hills in Western Ghats are said to be the most sensitive regions. Since the sthese hills naturally form the shape of a crescent moon, they are named as

Publication Date: 
05/08/2009
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Forests, Western Ghats, Bhadra SA, Tiger Reserves, Karnataka
Wildlife

Forest officials to be sensitised on camera trap

BHUBANESWAR: Given the conflict between the State and Centre over the tiger enumeration using camera trap methodology, the latter has decided to capacitate the Forest Department with the knowhow so that they could use the improved technology in future.

Publication Date: 
04/08/2009
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Forests, Wildlife, Tiger, Simlipal NP, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Tiger Reserves, Orissa (Odisha), Bhubaneswar
Wildlife

Similipal tiger reserve: a rapid field assessment of conservation status

A committee was set up by the National Tiger Conservation Authority on 14th July 2009 to visit Similipal Tiger Reserve and undertake: an appraisal of the damage to infrastructure/habitat due to left?wing extremism; assessment of present status of

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Bivash Pandav, & et al, Suresh Kumar Mishra, SP Yadav
Project Tiger Directorate
Tags:
Wildlife, Tiger, Simlipal NP, Tiger Conservation, Tiger Reserves, India, Orissa (Odisha)
Mining

No mining in Tiger reserve

Mumbai: In a major boost to the efforts of conservationists opposing mining near Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) in Chandrapur district, union minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh has said mining will not be allowed near the reserve.

Publication Date: 
31/07/2009
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Mining, Wildlife, Tadoba NP, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Tiger Reserves, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Maharashtra, Chandrapur (D)
Wildlife

Vigil stepped up in areas adjoining Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

Forest department monitoring movement of strangers
Forest department staff visiting villages in border areas
Forest staff being assisted by STF personnel

Publication Date: 
31/07/2009
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Wildlife, Mudumalai SA, Tiger Reserves, Poaching, Tamil Nadu

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