Tiger Reserves

Wildlife cinematographer S Nallamuthu believes it was his karmic connection with the tigress Machli that took him back to Rajasthan's Ranthambore National Park in August last year, just in time to capture the dying moments of the once-ferocious big cat he had followed with his camera for nearly a decade. It was a rainy afternoon in mid August when he received a phone call from the park's forest officials about the tigress' failing health. Nallamuthu was occupied wi    Read More...

In a bid to increase chances of successful prey by tigers, the officials of Bor Tiger Reserve, 60km from here in Wardha district, has planted khus grass, also known as vetiver, near the backwaters of Bordharan. Khus grass can grow up to 150cm (5 feet) and form clumps as wide. The stems are tall and the leaves are long, thin, and proves to be a good forest cover too. Chief conservator of forests (CCF) & field director MS Reddy said, "We have planted khus grass, bro    Read More...

Its not been a great year for wildlife. More tigers and leopards were poached in 2016 than in any year of the previous decade, pangolins were killed in the hundreds while thousands of marine animals perished due to the debiliating effect of climate change. Yet, the good news is that the number of tigers still rose. "Tigers have increased but in the sphere of protection, this year has been worse for animals, including pangolins," Shekhar Niraj, head of TRAFFIC, a wi    Read More...

Maharashtra government has sought a video footage from Telangana to ascertain if a tiger spotted in that state’s forests is ‘Jai’, the famous feline who went missing in April from a wildlife sanctuary near Nagpur. “Some local news channels in Telangana have reported that Jai has been spotted in a forest area there. We have thus sought help from the Telangana government, to send us a video of the tiger who has been seen there,” Maharas    Read More...

MYSURU: An eight-year-old tiger was found dead and its nails and teeth were missing in the Bandipur reserve forest area in a suspected case of poisoning. During a patrol, forest staff came across the tigers carcass at Gundre range in Gundlupet taluks Hediyala division on Monday. A postmortem revealed the tigers nails and upper and lower canine teeth were missing, indicating foul play. Its pelt was intact. The carcass of a calf -the prey of the tiger -was found six    Read More...