The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is reportedly unhappy over the Goa Forest department

PALAKKAD: The Parambikulam wildlife sanctuary will be declared the second tiger reserve in the state by the end of the financial year with the task of identifying and notifying the core and buffer areas nearing completion by next month.

Sunny Sebastian

JAIPUR: Leopards made merry in the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan when the tigers were away over the past few years. The absence of the big cat from the once prestigious Project Tiger sanctuary in Alwar district after their total disappearance in 2004-05 apparently led to the increase of the spotted tribe in place of the striped ones in recent times.

Government sets up panel to set norms for relocation THE National Tiger Conservation Authority has set up a panel to formulate guidelines for translocating tigers from one reserve to another. The need for the guidelines was felt after tiger conservationists raised concerns when a tigress from Bandhavgarh tiger reserve was tranquillized and taken 200 km by road to Panna tiger

Enumerators told to focus on till now neglected fauna

Collecting details: Forest officials and volunteers participating in the wildlife census operation at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, near Udhagamandalam, on Sunday.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which was in Panna Tiger Reserve for probing the causes behind the mysterious disappearance of tigers, has claimed that the big cat community has been wiped out from Panna from January onwards this year. This statement has opposed the consistent claims of the State Forest Department, regarding the presence of tigers in Panna after January this year.

PANKAJ SEKHSARIA

Six tiger reserves, over 6,000 sq km of protected forests and the highest numbers of tigers in any State in India. Those statistics would suggest that all is well with tiger conservation in Madhya Pradesh. Nothing can be farther from the truth

Madhya Pradesh Panna National Park is facing breeding crisis with the disappearance of the lone tiger at the Tiger Reserve. The big cat has not been sighted for the last two months even after two tigresses were released in the park last month from the state's Bandhavgarh and Kana Tiger Reserves.

BHUBANESWAR: As the security forces moved into Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) to regain the ground lost to Left Wing Extremists (LWEs) after three successive attacks, the State Government on Saturday decided to approach National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for raising of the protection force meant exclusively for the large cats habitat.