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Ken-Betwa River Link-up Approved, Tiger Reserve To Be Submerged
A panel headed by the environment minister Anil Madhav Dave has agreed to submerge more than 100 square km of Panna Tiger Reserve to link the rivers. The Ken-Batwa inter-linking of rivers has got nod from the standing committee of the National Board of Wildlife. The panel headed by the Union Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave has agreed to submerge more than 100 square kilometres of one of the country’s prime tiger habitats, the Panna Tiger Reserve in Mad Read More...
Sunderbans Tiger Grow(l)s Strong Outside Protected Area
KOLKATA: The Bengal tiger seems to be doing well in the Sunderbans. For the first time, a data-collection exercise has revealed that the population of the swamp tiger is on the rise even outside the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (STR), a protected area. The camera trap data of 2015 -the latest set of numbers thrown up by the yearly exercise -shows the presence of at least 22 tigers in the South 24-Parganas forest division, spread over an area of more than 1,500sq km, ou Read More...
Wildlife Institue Of India To Help In Saving Black Tigers In Odisha
DEHRADUN: In a bid to save the critically endangered black tigers, the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) will offer technical assistance to the Odisha forest department soon. Black tigers - which are also known as melanistic tigers because of a gene defect - are found in the Simlipal National Park in Odisha in the entire world but their numbers have drastically declined. Dr Bivash Pandav , WII scientist claimed that only seven to eight black tigers ar Read More...
Centre Rejects Rajasthan Govt’s Proposal To Translocate Male Tiger From Ranthambore
JAIPUR: The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has shot down the proposal from the state forest and wildlife department for the translocation of one sub adult male tiger from the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve to Sariska Tiger reserve. In his reply to the proposal from the principal chief conservator of forest and chief wildlife warden Dr G V Reddy to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), director of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Dr B V Mathur said th Read More...
Decks Cleared For Starting Safari In Tiger Reserves
NEW DELHI: With a move to ease pressure from core areas in tiger reserves, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has come up with guidelines to set up tiger safari in buffer and fringe areas of tiger reserves. The guidelines provide the basic criteria and procedure required in the buffer and fringe areas for dealing with establishment, management and administration of Tiger safaris’. According to NTCA, the move is to reduce pressure of touris Read More...