India

 Experts call for people-oriented conservation

The total preservation policy has alienated people living in and around national parks and caused much harm to the forests. Experts say effective conservation will not be possible unless this policy is reversed.

Publication Date: 
30/03/1993
Anumita Roychowdhury
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Conservation, Tiger, National Parks, NGO, India
Wildlife

A review of project tiger, 1993

All in all project tiger faces a new set of serious problems. Project tiger saved the tiger from extinction in the nick of time but over 20 years it is clear that expanding human populations, a new way of life based on alien models, and the resultant effect on natural resources has created fresh problems that indicate danger for the tiger. Militancy and poaching only add fuel to the fire. This is a serious and critical moment in the history of tiger conservation.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1992
Ministry of Environment and Forests (India)
Tags:
Tiger, Project Tiger, Tiger Reserves, India
India

 Indifferent villagers, guards doom Project Tiger

Indiscriminate poaching, abetted by government apathy and sympathy from villagers displaced from their traditional forest habitats, is fast wiping out India's tiger population.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1992
Anjani Khanna
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tiger, Corbett NP, Ranthambore NP, Wildlife Trade, Poaching, India
India

 From copycats to new stylists

HEADLINES about Ranthambhore sanctuary in Rajasthan are usually about its vanishing tiger population, but it was recently featured in the news for a very different reason. Artists from villages

Publication Date: 
29/11/1992
Pradip Saha
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Artisans, Tiger, Ranthambore NP, India
India

 Tiger poaching

RANTHAMBHOR National Park in Rajasthan is in the news, thanks to rampant poaching in the tiger reserve. This year's tiger census in the park shows their number has fallen from 46 to 18 in just one

Publication Date: 
30/08/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tiger, Ranthambore NP, Poaching, Rajasthan
Biodiversity

 Conservation at what cost?

STATE-SPONSORED conservation of natural resources in India has been in existence for many centuries and has been carried out in a variety of ways. Today, the generic term of "protected areas"

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Farhad Vania
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Tiger, National Parks, Sanctuaries
Wildlife

Project tiger: a planning proposal for preservation of tiger (Panthera tigris tigris Linn.) in India

Since the tiger is at the apex of the biological pyramid, its preservation is possible only if the whole biome or its habitat is conserved and maintained at an ecological stage, advantageous to the tiger.

Publication Date: 
31/08/1972
Ministry of Agriculture
Tags:
Project Tiger, Tiger, India, Wildlife
Wildlife

Tourism in protected areas: Worsening prospects for Tigers?

Against the backdrop of the increasing popularity of ecotourism and the dramatic loss of tigers due to lack of funding, mismanagement, population and development pressures as well as poaching, this article finds that the present policies benefit neither conservation nor local communities.

Publication Date: 
06/03/2010
Abhijit Banerjee
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Pollution, Ecotourism, Waste Disposal, Wildlife, Tiger, Protected Area Conservation, Tiger Reserves, Poaching, Wildlife Tourism, Benefit Sharing
Wildlife

 South Asia

white tigers detained: Pakistan

Publication Date: 
29/06/2009
Down to Earth
Tags:
Petrol, Zoos, Energy, Wildlife, Tiger, Imports, Pakistan, Fuel Pricing
Climate Change

Time For A Fair Discussion On Black Soot

A recent NY Times articles brings to fore the contribution of Soot, also known as Black Carbon, in the global warming. And how efforts are underway to reign in the global warming by replacing the mud-stoves in villages of India! On the Earth day, a legislation was introduced in US Senate for EPA to assess the options for reducing the black carbon pollution.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2009
Vandana Prakash
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Pollution, Carbon Dioxide, Diesel, Green House Gases, Global Warming, Energy, Thermal Power Plants, Tiger, Africa, Asia, United States Of America (US)

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