Increase in tiger population reflects people

Pollachi: A water supply scheme has been commissioned at an outlay of Rs. 50 lakh for the benefit of tourists visiting Top Slip, the reception headquarters of the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve.

The scheme will benefit tribal settlements such as Kozhikamudhi and Varagliyar, said the tiger reserve Field Director, H. Basuvaraju, on Sunday.

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THE Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) project has seemingly hampered the sericulture (silkworm rearing) and mulberry plantation in the tribal settlement of Thallanji Vayal, 36 km away from Udumalpet.

The dawn OF 2009 only brought despair for the tiger. One shocking revelation was the unprecedented poaching in the past three months. From November to January, skins and bones of seven tigers have been seized, plus three killed by poachers. Seventeen tigers have been found dead

With the number of cases of tigers straying into urban habitats on increase in Uttar Pradesh, the Centre has asked the State Government to expedite the process of finalising Pilibhit forest as tiger reserve for saving the big cats.

Mumbai: State forest minister Babanrao Pachpute is drawing flak from environmentalists again. Earlier, he was criticised for threatening non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for opposing a proposed coal mining project in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur district, east Maharashtra.