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Displaced for nothing

First Asiatic lion, then cheetah: officials struggle to decide which animal to introduce, and when, in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary. But they evict tribal residents with poor compensation.

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Tiger reserved

Tiger tourism booms without proper regulation; new guidelines attempt to contain damage.

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Government Policies and Action Plans

Comprehensive guidelines for tiger conservation and tourism as provided under section 38O (1) (c) of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972

National Tourism Conservation Authority (NTCA) notified these guidelines on 15 Oct 2012, under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 for tourism in and around tiger reserves.

Guidelines for human-leopard conflict management

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This booklet, the first of its kind from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, is a result of the consultations with, and the suggestions from, a wide range of individuals and organizations involved in the subject, besides drawing upon reports and scientific studies available
on human-leopard conflict. Knowing full well that such conflicts are

People - Animal Conflicts

The last call to save Indian Bustard in Kutch, Gujarat, India

Wildlife

This report published by The Corbett Foundation identifies the current threats to Great Indian Bustards in Kutch and recommends measures for their long term survival.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2012
Devesh Gadhavi, Kedar Gore, Harendra Singh Bargali
The Corbett Foundation
Tags:
Bustard, Kuchchh, Gujarat, India, Birds, Biodiversity, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation

Polluting units shut in Kaziranga

Wildlife

 

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered about 70 industrial units operating inside the “no-development zone” near Kaziranga National Park in Assam to shut down. It has also imposed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh each on the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the state for allowing the units to operate in the restricted zone.

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Publication Date: 
30/09/2012
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
Down to Earth
Tags:
Kaziranga SA, Industrial Pollution, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Mining, Stone Industry, Assam, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), North East, Water Pollution

Endgame for bustards

Down to Earth
Bustard, Canal Irrigation, Endangered Species, Grasslands, India, Maharashtra, People - Animal Conflicts, Political Parties, Protected Area Conservation, Sholapur (D), Supreme Court, Wildlife

Panna’s poaching nexus exposed

Down to Earth
Panna NP, Poaching, Tiger Reserves, Panna (D), Chhatarpur (D), Corruption, Right To Information (RTI)

Rearticulating the myth of humanwildlife conflict

Conservation Letters
Land Encroachments, Land Use, Agriculture, Wildlife, People - Animal Conflicts, Biodiversity Conservation, Global

In the name of the tiger

Down to Earth
Benefit Sharing, Coexistence Strategies, Displacement, Forest Rights Act 2006, India, Kalpavriksh, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), People - Animal Conflicts, Relocation, Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Tiger Reserves, Wildlife

The last stand of the Gorilla Environmental crime and conflict in the Congo Basin

UNEP
Congo, Deforestation, Timber Smuggling, Endangered Species, Charcoal, Wildlife, Monkey, Illegal Trade, Poaching, Wildlife And People, Africa

Coexistence Strategies

Private-community partnerships: Investigating a new approach to conservation and development in Uganda

Wildlife

Nature-based tourism is well recognised as a tool that can be used for neoliberal conservation. Proponents argue that such tourism can provide revenue for conservation activities, and income generating opportunities and other benefits for local people living at the destination. Private-Community Partnerships (PCPs) are a particular form of hybrid intervention in which local benefits are claimed to be guaranteed through shared ownership of the tourism venture. In this paper, we evaluate one such partnership involving a high-end tourist eco-lodge at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2012
Wilber Manyisa Ahebwa, V René Van der Duim, Chris G Sandbrook
Conservation & Society
10
4
305-317
Tags:
Wildlife Tourism, Uganda, Benefit Sharing, Public Participation, Coexistence Strategies, National Parks, Africa

Hope for resurrecting a functionally extinct parrot or squandered social capital? Landholder attitudes towards the orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) in Victoria, Australia

Wildlife

In early 2010, after 27 years of recovery effort, the orange-bellied parrot (OBP; Neophema chrysogaster) was expected to be extinct in the wild within a few years. Shortly before the imminent wild extinction became evident, we surveyed landholders (114 responses of 783 surveys delivered) in part of the main non-breeding area, according to three classes of modelled habitat suitability ('high', 'medium', and 'low').

Publication Date: 
01/10/2012
Michael A Weston, Kelly K Miller, Justin Lawson
Conservation & Society
10
4
381-385
Tags:
Birds, Endangered Species, Australia, Coexistence Strategies, Wildlife Management, Public Participation

Status and trend of waterbirds in wetlands around Corbett

The Corbett Foundation
Birds, Migratory Species, Corbett NP, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Wetlands

Monitoring tigers and prey animals of Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

Aaranyak
Wildlife, Tiger, Census/ Habitat Monitoring, Kaziranga SA, Tiger Reserves, India, Assam

Linking conservation and poverty alleviation: the case of Great Apes

IIED
Monkey, Endangered Species, Wildlife And People, Benefit Sharing, People - Animal Conflicts, Poaching, Deforestation, Cameroon, Wildlife

The Asiatic Lion and the Maldharis of Gir forest: An assessment of Indian Eco-Development

Journal of Environment & Development
Livestock, Forest Villages, Firewood, LPG, Pastoral Nomads, Tribals, Household Energy, Wildlife, Lion, Gir NP, Eco Development, Wildlife And People, Benefit Sharing, Gujarat

Social-natural landscape reorganised: Swedish forest-edge farmers and wolf recovery

Conservation & Society
Agriculture, Farmers, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Hunting, Wildlife And People, People - Animal Conflicts, Sweden

Wildlife Trade

The disappearing act: the illicit trade in wildlife in Asia

Wildlife

Southeast Asia, with its linkages into the larger Asian market that includes China, Indonesia, and India, is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots as well as one of the world’s hotspots for the illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife parts.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2011
Vanda Felbab-Brown
The Brookings Institution
Tags:
Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, Asia, India, Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystems, Biodiversity

Global trends and factors associated with the illegal killing of elephants: A hierarchical bayesian analysis of carcass encounter data

PLoS ONE
Elephant, Poaching, CITES, India, Africa, Asia, Wildlife Trade

An assessment of trade in gibbons and orang-utans in Sumatra, Indonesia

Wildlife

This report presents an assessment of the trade in gibbons and orang-utans in Sumatra, Indonesia, including the islands off Sumatra’s west coast (most notably, the Mentawai Islands). Until recently Sumatra and its off-lying islands harboured one of the largest expanses of lowland evergreen rainforest in Southeast Asia.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Vincent Nijman
TRAFFIC
Tags:
Palm Oil, Tropical Forests, Forest Fires, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Wildlife, Monkey, Wildlife Trade, Illegal Trade, Poaching, Statistics

Year of the disappearing ape

New Scientist
Deforestation, Endangered Species, Wildlife, Monkey, Hunting, Poaching, Tourism

Status, threats and conservation of the Great Indian Bustard Ardeotis nigriceps (Vigors) in Pakistan

Current Science
Rajasthan Canal IP, Endangered Species, Wildlife, Bustard, Hunting, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife And People, Pakistan, India, Rajasthan

A brief report on ecological and biodiversity importance of Niyamgiri Hill and implications of bauxite mining

Environmental Protection Group
Bauxite, Mining, Rayagada (D), Kalahandi, Orissa (Odisha), Forests, Water Resources, Biodiversity, Wildlife, Endangered Species, Vedanta Aluminium

Protected Area Conservation

Critically endangered animal species of India

Wildlife

India has a staggering variety of flora and fauna, including some of the rarest species in existence on the planet. There is so far a paucity of information for the general public on the status, biology, and major threats to the endangered species of our country.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Endangered Species, India, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Fish, Amphibians, Corals, Wildlife

Translocation of rhino in Assam

Tiger Paper
Wildlife, Rhinoceros, Wildlife Management, Manas NP, Poaching, Relocation, Assam

Kuno - The Asiatic Lion's second home?

Green Hope
Displacement, Compensation, Wildlife, Lion, Gir NP, Palpur-Kuno SA, People - Animal Conflicts, Relocation, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh

The Global Tiger Recovery Program - Initial Draft

Global Tiger Initiative
Wildlife, Ecosystem Services, India, Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration, Nepal, Watershed Development, Food Security, Poverty, Poaching, Protected Area Conservation, Wildlife And People, Tiger, Tiger Conservation, South Asia

Accelerated human population growth at protected area edges

Science
Deforestation, Displacement, Population Trends, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, Poaching, Wildlife And People, People - Animal Conflicts, Africa, South America

Many takers of a park

Down to Earth
Land Resources, Land Ownership, Western Ghats, Mining, Forest Encroachments, Displacement, Tribals, Conflicts, Rehabilitation, Wildlife, Kudremukh NP, Supreme Court, India, Karnataka, Dakshin Kannad, Naxalites

Books

The way of the tiger: natural history and conservation of the endangered big cat

"The way of the Tiger" is an outstanding primer; it is a scientist's explanation - to a popular audience - of the natural history and conservation of one of the planet's most charismatic animals.

Concepts in wildlife management

This book is first of its kind to embody subjects like wildlife conservation and management, ethical, ecological and recreational importance of wildlife, endangered flora and fauna of India
CSE store

Enviornment Education
Gobar times cover story

SOS from Shere Khan
Green school activity sheet

Why talk about birds?
Green career

Become a wildlife biologist