Pilibhit: The Pilibhit tiger reserve lost its fifth big cat in two months when the rotten carcass of a tiger was recovered from a spot barely 200 meters away from the Barahi forest range on Sunday

New app to avoid human error in estimating big cats’ presence, tribal groups participate

Pilibhit: In a first, Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) will have a fully equipped rapid rescue team to conduct operations in a situation of man-tiger conflict.

Annual exercise:The census will also analyse the prey base of the big cats.

The data will also be used to study habitat share by co-predators like leopard and hyena

KERI: The recently concluded six-day field exercise of the All India Tiger Estimation has confirmed the presence of the big cat in the Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary.

Plans to estimate tiger population in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal is in jeopardy as the neighbouring tiger range states have

Nainital: In a first, Uttarakhand forest department has included Kedarnath, Nainital and parts of Pithoagarh and Tehri forest divisions in the ongoing tiger census.

Estimation will kick off on Tuesday, when forest department officials, along with 77 volunteers, will begin a field survey.

Member secretary of the Central Zoo Authority raised various issues related to tiger safaris

A green ministry panel is going to do a field inspection to assess the impact of a proposed road from Kolhapur to Sindhudurg on ecologically sensitive areas of the Western Ghats and the Radhanagari