Tiger Reserves

BANGKOK: The Thai authorities uncovered a trove of animal parts and intercepted a monk trying to leave a controversial "tiger temple" with skins and fangs on Thursday, the latest discovery to fuel accusations that the zoo is involved in the illegal wildlife trade. Dozens of police and park officials have been stationed at the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua temple in western Kanchanaburi province since Monday after receiving a court order to remove over 100 adult cats from th    Read More...

Pilibhit: In yet another instance of man-animal conflict, a 50-year-old man of Nabadia Sukhdaspur village, under Madhotanda police station, was mauled by a tiger when he was working in his sugarcane field located on the periphery of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve's Mahof forest range in the morning on Wednesday . The victim, Hari Ram, was rushed to district government hospital in Pilibhit, where his condition is serious. Doctors said Hari Ram sustained serious injuries on h    Read More...

PENCH TIGER RESERVE, INDIA: The tigress lay partly obscured by a lantana bush, attracting a crowd of nature tourists with safari gear and long camera lenses who assumed she was napping in the sun. But when the tiger nicknamed Baghinnala didn't move, park rangers eventually realized the awful truth - she was dead, along with two of her four cubs. She had been poisoned. The big cat had been a familiar sight at the tiger reserve in the central Indian state of Ma    Read More...

Ranthambhore National Park is where the celebrated Indian tigers are best seen. Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve lies on the junction of Aravali and Vindhyas just 14 km from Sawai Madhopur in Eastern Rajasthan. It sprawls over a varying landscape. The scenery changes from gentle and steep slopes of the Vindhyas to the sharp and conical hills of the Aravali. A 10th century fort also blends with the background. Pure sands of Dhok (Anogeissus pendula) interspersed with grass    Read More...

Central Zoo Authority (CZA) has asked Madhya Pradesh forest department to stop tiger safari in the state’s Pench National Park citing alleged violation of wildlife norms. Pench national Park is famous as home to ‘Mowgli’– the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’. In a letter to the State’s Chief Wildlife Warden, the CZA said that no safari shall be established without its prior approval. “A    Read More...