The German government has sanctioned 20 million euros (Rs 166.94 crore) to the International Union of Nature Conservation (IUCN) for conservation of tigers in India and a few other Asian countries.

Gujarat’s Curative Petition To Expose MP Govt’s Claims About Prey Base For Big Cats

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government is all set to file the curative petition challenging the apex court order to translocate lions to Kuno Palpur. The state had, after the final order on April 15, filed a review petition which was dismissed by the court in November 2013.

Alwar: Territorial equations in the Sariska tiger reserve are in a jeopardy! Three tigers shifted from Ranthambore are upsetting equations here.

Jaipur: Safari at the Ranthambore tiger reserve becomes bigger, literally!

In a bid to decongest the tiger reserve, the forest department has added a new zone at the reserve. “We have been working on zone number 10 for about two or three months and sprucing it up. It is now ready and we will be opening it for safari from January 18,” said Rahul Bhatnagar, field director, Ranthambhore.

The centre has released the first ever financial sanction to Amangarh tiger reserve. The sanction of Rs 24 lakh will be utilized for the management of the reserve.

Six persons have been killed in area adjoining the reserve since December 29, in attacks by a stray feline. Though, the big cat has moved on to Corbett as is hinted by the seventh killing reported from Kotdwar, Uttrakhand, on Tuesday, forest department plans to utilize central funds for better management of Amangarh reserve.

The national tiger census will begin at the Sahyadri tiger reserve (STR) from Thursday amid much curiosity, as no tiger was sighted in the 50 camera traps installed in the Chandoli national park an

Fresh tiger estimation would be carried out in South 24 Parganas Forest division of Sundarban Biosphere Reserve with the first study providing interesting results.

Canine distemper virus, common in dogs and deadly to other carnivores, has killed at least four tigers in past year

Fifty-three cases of tiger poaching and 160 cases of killing of leopard are being tried in various courts in Madhya Pradesh, some for over four decades.

A case of tiger death registered on May 17, 1975 in Kanha National Park in Mandla district is still pending decision in the court. Another case of tiger death registered on September 25, 1979 in Balaghat district is also under the legal process.

The country lost 63 tigers in 2013 with Karnataka alone losing 16 big cats.