Tiger Reserves

"Possibly, the tigress was killed by a male tiger in a territorial fight," said Kanha Tiger Reserve's Field Director J S Chouhan. A tigress was killed in the Soopkhar range of the famous Kanha Tiger Reserve in a suspected territorial fight with another feline, a forest official said today. The carcass of the tigress, aged about seven-nine years, was spotted by the beat guard following which he informed the senior forest officials about it, Kanha Tiger Reserve†   Read More...

A tigress was found dead on Saturday at Hinauta range of Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Panna district. “We got to know that a tigress around 11-year-old christened T-5 has been found dead today in the core area of the reserve,” PTR field director Vivek Jain told reporters. “I don’t have much details of it as I am in Delhi right now. But I have been informed that initial findings suggest that the striped animal died i    Read More...

Keri: On June 4, Vitthal Shelke, a wildlife enthusiast noticed a skeleton of a sambar (deer) in Ponsuli in the Mhadei wildlife sanctuary. Speaking to TOI, he said, "It (skeleton) is of the sambar that was killed by a tiger during the last fortnight." This ties back to an increasing number of incidents of tiger-sighting in Sattari district of Goa. In 2015, a survey by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change had indicated the presence of five tigers i    Read More...

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off Tiger Express, a semi-luxury tourist train to spread awareness of tiger conservation, from the Safdarjung station here on World Environment Day on Sunday. This is the first semi-luxury train on a tourist circuit having a dining car. Tariffs start from Rs. 38,500, said a statement by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, which runs the service. The five night, six day package offers accommodation in air-    Read More...

Jaipur: Ranthambore Tiger Reserve has assigned numbers to 16 'nameless' tigers, many of whom are missing and have not been spotted for the past several months. Park authorities have assigned numbers to tigers that have turned adults and will soon carve out their territories in the forest. These 16 tigers - most of them at least two years old - will be called T-76, T-77, T-78 and so on. While the numbers have been assigned on the basis of footages of these tigers ca    Read More...