Wildlife

The Pakke Tiger Reserve initiative

The heads of sixteen villages bordering the Pakke Tiger Reserve in East Kameng District in Arunachal Pradesh, have formed a committee called the Ghora Aabhe, to protect the reserve where hunting animals illegally has been a common practice. Tana Tapi, a Divisional Forest Officer has helped the villagers in the formation of the committee.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2008
People in Conservation
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North East, Forest Conservation, Wildlife Management, Protected Area Conservation, Tiger Reserves, Poaching, Public Participation, India, Arunachal, East Kameng
India

 A 'shoot at sight order for a tigress

Travelling through Maharashtra on assignment, I heard hair-raising stories about a killer tigress in Talodhi village, barely 150 km from Nagpur. I couldn't resist the temptation of taking time off

Publication Date: 
14/12/2007
Supriya Singh
Down to Earth
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Deforestation, Timber Smuggling, Conflicts, Tiger, Tadoba NP, Tiger Reserves, Wildlife And People, People - Animal Conflicts, India, Maharashtra, Chandrapur (D)
Industry

 Tigers and tribals

Tigers or tribals?

Publication Date: 
14/11/2007
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Forest Villages, Forest Rights Act 2006, Displacement, Tribals, Compensation, Tiger, Wildlife Management, Protected Area Conservation, Sariska NP, Tiger Conservation, Tiger Reserves, Relocation, Legislation, Parliament, India
Forests

Non-timber forest products (NTFP), livelihoods and nutrition interface - A study of the tribal communities of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra states in India

The paper deals with the relationship between the tribal communities and the NTFP used for their livelihood and nutrition in the forests of Betul District of Madhya Pradesh and Melghat District of Maharashtra with special reference to Gond and Korku tribal communities. The study area includes tribal dominated forests.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2007
A. K. Bhattacharya, Krishna Patra
Indian Forester
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Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gond, Amravati (D), Melghat SA, Tiger Reserves, Nutrition, Child Health, Betul (D)
India

 Piecing together problems with conservation in India

Documentaries>> The Great Indian Tiger Crisis

Publication Date: 
29/09/2007
Sanjay Kak
Down to Earth
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Livestock, Forest Products, Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Tiger Reserves, Poaching, Wildlife And People, Cinema, India
Wildlife

Guidelines for preparation of tiger conservation plan

The objectives of the Tiger Conservation Plan are to ensure: protection of tiger reserve and providing site specific habitat inputs for a viable population of tigers, co-predators and prey animals without distorting the natural prey-predator ecological cycle in the habitat; ecologically compatible land uses in the tiger reserves and areas linking one protected area or tiger reserve to another for addressing the livelihood concerns of local people, so as to provide dispersal habitats and corridors for spillover population of wild animals from the designated core areas of tiger reserves or from

Publication Date: 
01/08/2007
& et al, Rajesh Gopal, Sinha P. R., Mathur V. B.
National Tiger Conservation Authority
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Wildlife, Tiger, Protected Area Conservation, Tiger Conservation, Project Tiger, Tiger Reserves, India
India

 Tension over relocation at Melghat sanctuary

there is tension brewing in three villages in Maharashtra's Melghat Sanctuary over rehabilitation measures. The sanctuary, within the Melghat Tiger Reserve, is being freed of people to protect

Publication Date: 
14/07/2007
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
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Forest Conservation, Forest Villages, Displacement, Conflicts, Rehabilitation, Tiger, Melghat SA, Tiger Reserves, Supreme Court, India, Maharashtra
India

 Rajasthan HC issues orders against encroachments in Ranthambore

all encroachments in the eco-sensitive zone around the Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan will be removed following a court order. The encroachments include residences, hotels and other

Publication Date: 
29/06/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution Control, Ecotourism, Forest Encroachments, Forest Personnel, CNG, Petrol, Tiger, Ranthambore NP, Tiger Reserves, Tourism, High Court, Public Participation, India, Rajasthan, Hotels
Wildlife

India Eco Development Project: Project performance assessment report

The overall aim of the India Ecodevelopment Project, approved in 1996, was to conserve biological diversity in seven globally significant protected areas (PAS) by implementing an ecodevelopment strategy (prepared by the GOI).

Publication Date: 
26/06/2007
The World Bank
Tags:
Ecotourism, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, Periyar NP, Ranthambore NP, Tiger Reserves, Wildlife And People, Benefit Sharing, Public Participation, Government Of India (GOI), World Bank, NGO, India
India

 Tiger population has declined, says WII census

Initial results of a census conducted by Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) indicate far lesser number of tigers in India than was previously recorded. The results were presented on

Publication Date: 
14/06/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pench, Endangered Species, Tiger, Corbett NP, Tiger Reserves, Kanha NP, India, Madhya Pradesh

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