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Three new havens for tigers
In a move that comes soon after the tiger census in January showed an overall rise in numbers of the big cat, the Centre is set to form three new tiger reserves. In-principle approval has been accorded by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for creation of reserves in Ratapani in Madhya Pradesh, Sunabeda in Odisha and Guru Ghasidas in Chhattisgarh, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Odisha is among the Read More...
Sundarbans Has 182 Tigers, Pollution A Major Concern: Report
New Delhi:The Sundarbans, the world's largest contiguous mangrove forest, has 182 tigers -- 106 in Bangladesh and around 76 in India, according to the first ever modern survey jointly conducted by the two countries across a 6,724 sq km area. According to the report, Status of Tigers in the Sundarban Landscape, the tiger habitat is threatened by pollution from cargo like oil, cement, fertiliser ferried along the rivers in the region as well as from poaching. Usin Read More...
Increasing Tiger Density in Karnataka Heightens Infighting Risks
BENGALURU: Increasing numbers are welcome. But Karnataka is seeing tigers fight tooth and claw for space. However, officials and experts feel space constraint is not the only factor causing tiger deaths. Even as 700 experts, scientists and officials debate and discuss on the conservation issues in the third Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation at New Delhi, Karnataka's two reserves -- Bandipur and Nagarhole -- home to the highest tiger population and Read More...
Tiger cub dies of infection in Kanha reserve, MP's 11th this year
A tiger cub died from an infection in Kanha Tiger Reserve on Wednesday, bringing the tiger death toll in the state up to eleven this year. Nine of these dead tigers were from the Pench Tiger Reserve alone. The cub was one of two shifted to Kanha Tiger Reserve recently after their mother died in the Pench Tiger Reserve due to suspected poisoning, say wildlife officials. Field director Kanha Tiger Reserve JS Chauhan told HT over phone that the cub developed sept Read More...
Indian tigers may replenish Cambodian forests
Cambodia is looking to India to bring wild tigers back to its forests where they were declared "functionally extinct" recently. The Southeast Asian country is trying to get some tigers from India introduced into its eastern region. A formal proposal from Cambodia is likely later this year. "We are in talks..for six female tigers and two males and we expect more discussions on it this year," Sokhun TY, Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishe Read More...