Wildlife

Rajaji Tiger Reserve: conservation opportunities and challenges

The world-famous Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand, India has recently been notified as Rajaji Tiger Reserve (RTR). This Protected Area is now the 48th Tiger Reserve in the country and the second in Uttarakhand. Though RNP was established in 1983, final notification for the Park was issued in 2013 because of non-settlement of rights of the local people, which provided a full-fledged legal status to it and strengthened the conservation activities. (Correspondence)

Original Source

Publication Date: 
25/03/2016
Ritesh Joshi
Current Science
110
6
959-960
Tags:
Rajaji NP, Tiger Reserves, Protected Area Conservation, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Remote Sensing, Gujjar, Tribals, Pastoral Nomads, Rehabilitation, People - Animal Conflicts, Wildlife Management
Forests

Tribals present forest management plan

Forest dwellers inside Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) have put forward their own Community Forest Resource Management and Conservation (CFRMC) plan for vast forest stretches.

Publication Date: 
22/03/2016
Satyasundar Barik
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Simlipal NP, Tiger Reserves, Forests, People, Mayurbhanj, Forest Management, Community Forest Management (CFM)
Wildlife

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding construction of wall on the bank of Song river, Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand, 21/03/2016

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Social Action For Forest & Environment (SAFE) Vs Uttarakhand Forest Department & Others dated 21/03/2016 regarding construction of 2 km length of wall on the right bank of Song river in Rajaji National Park, Motichur range of Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand.

Judgement Date: 
21/03/2016
Tags:
Rajaji NP, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Elephant, Migratory Species, Poaching, Tiger Reserves, Wildlife Management, Rivers
Wildlife

No funds for tiger conservation in Telangana

Two tigers in core area and four to five in the buffer zone.

Publication Date: 
21/03/2016
Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)
Tags:
Telangana, Tiger, Tiger Reserves, Kawal SA, Tadoba NP, Wildlife, Endangered Species
Wildlife

Eyes in the Kali Foresters Keep Track of Animals Through

Did you know that 14 per cent of leopards in Kali Tiger Reserve are melanistic in nature?

Publication Date: 
21/03/2016
Amit S Upadhye
New Indian Express (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Tiger Reserves, Bandipur NP, Nagarhole NP, Ecosystems, Wildlife
Mining

Rio Tinto's diamond mine in MP up for green clearance

Despite dense forests, protected parks & villagers' refusals, project could get nod today

Publication Date: 
16/03/2016
Nitin SethI
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Mining, Environment Clearance (EC), Forests, Panna NP, Tiger Reserves
Wildlife

MP to notify Ratapani as wildlife division

Mounting pressure from National Green Tribunal on the issue of notifying Ratapani sanctuary as a tiger reserve and pending case in Madhya Pradesh high court, Jabalpur the government decided to go a

Publication Date: 
16/03/2016
Desh Deep
Times Of India (Bhopal)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Ratapani SA, Tiger Reserves, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Wildlife
Wildlife

9 tigers roam in every 100sqkm of Nagarahole reserve

Bengaluru: That the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve is home to a good number of big cats was always known. But did you know that the forest area has a density of 8.6 tigers per 100 sqkm?

Publication Date: 
10/03/2016
Times Of India (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Nagarahole NP, Tiger, Census/ Habitat Monitoring, Tiger Reserves, Endangered Species, Wildlife
Wildlife

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Human-Animal Conflicts, 08/03/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Human-Animal Conflicts, 08/03/2016. The details of incidents of tiger attacks on human beings during the last three years and current year, in and around tiger reserves, as reported by States, State-wise, are at Annexure-I. Under the ongoing Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Project Tiger, funding assistance is given to the tiger range States / tiger reserves, based on their demand in the Annual Plan of Operation for various activities which, interalia includes provision for ex-gratia payment / mitigation of human-wildlife conflict.

Publication Date: 
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Lok Sabha
Tags:
People - Animal Conflicts, Tiger Reserves, India, Statistics, Parliament, Tiger
Wildlife

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding training of river Beki activation of river Manas and Hakua at Mathanguri, Assam, 07/03/2016

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs Union of India, Through Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change & Others dated 07/03/2016 regarding stay on all activities of the project “Training of river Beki on L/B and activation of river Manas and Hakua at Mathanguri” situated within the Manas National Park and Manas Tiger Reserve.

Judgement Date: 
07/03/2016
Tags:
Manas NP, Wildlife, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Assam, Court, Wildlife Act 1972, Tiger Reserves, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Rivers, Beki, Manas, North East

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