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‘Jailed’ Tiger Brothers Of Bandhavgarh Reserve Being Separated, Translocated
T25 and T26 were born to the same mother in 2012. Four years later, the two brothers are being separated – one is being let off into the wild while the other remains in captivity. Meet the ‘jailed’ tigers of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. Born on the reserve, the two were restricted to the Bahera enclosure in 2014 after local villagers in Khitouli area of Bandhavgarh alleged they killed four people. Following more than year of authorities studying Read More...
74 Tiger Deaths Since January Drive Home Poaching, Other Threats
NEW DELHI: At least 74 tigers died between January 1 and June 26 this year in India. Worryingly, there is also a spike in poaching-related fatalities as 2016 reaches its halfway mark, statistics collated from different parts of India by a well-known wildlife NGO shows. Among these, 14 tigers were electrocuted, poisoned or simply killed by poachers, and much of the carcass was recovered. Police and wildlife authorities also seized skins, bones, claws, skeletons, can Read More...
Tigers Roar Loud In Manas, Population Up 50% In 3 Years
GUWAHATI: Tigers have made a roaring comeback in the Manas landscape which straddles both Assam's Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD) and Bhutan. The second survey to monitor big cats across the Transboundary Manas Conservation Area (TraMCA), which covers Manas National Park (MNP) on the Indian side and the Royal Manas National Park (RMNP) in Bhutan, has thrown up 21 tigers — a heartwarming increase of 50 per cent over the first survey in 2011-12 that Read More...
Tiger Safari Runs Short Of Tigers
Ludhiana: The Tiger Safari is running short of tigers, much to the chagrin of zoo authorities, who have written to the wildlife department asking them arrange the big cats from tiger reserves across the country. That's not all. The Safari is also short of crocodiles, ghadiyals and leopards, among other wild animals. Safari in-charge Avtar Singh said, "We wrote to the chief wildlife warden (CWW) office some time ago and are in continuous correspondence with them. W Read More...
Why India’s Tiger Count May Not Paint The True Picture Of Big Cat Numbers
It was a muggy morning in mid-May when a group of us gathered at Attapatti village, situated on a small hill near Valparai in the hilly Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. This is home to the Tamil Nadu forest department’s training centre, and a three-hour-long session was scheduled for the day – the department would train us on how to take a census of tigers inside the Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park. Over the next few hours, Arumu Read More...