Tiger Reserves

Four people were arrested on Sunday with skin of a tiger and a leopard, worth lakhs in international market, were seized from them in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, police said on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Mahattam Dahivele (50), Puneet Ram Nagwanshi (45), Chainlal Yadav (25), and Santosh Dhruv (26) from Bhanupratappur police station limits, an official said, adding that the arrested persons are wildlife traders. "Police had the input that Dah    Read More...

BENGALURU: Even as the inquiry ordered by the principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) into the alleged spending of Rs 1 crore for the Canara Trail project without approval is on, a recent RTI query has revealed that some individuals have illegally conducted trekking and documentation in the Kali tiger reserve area. Sources said the tourism department has proposed the Canara Trail project shouldn't be taken forward as Subhash K Malkedde, additional princip    Read More...

Before Machhli died in Ranthambhore, huge efforts were made to keep her alive One of the most intriguing trends to have emerged in the Indian wildlife conservation discourse in recent years is that of the ‘celebrity tiger’. Whether it is Ustad or Machhli in Rajasthan’s Ranthambhore National Park, Prince in Bandipur in Karnataka, or Jai, Srinivas and Bittu in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district, these are tigers or tigresses with an indivi    Read More...

Bhopal: While the summer is peaking and water bodies inside jungles are shrinking or drying up, park managers of Panna Tiger Reserve are coming up with out of the box ideas to quench the thirst of animals. Earlier this month, the park managers discovered a water source from where water was gushing out like it comes out from a water pump. "To exploit the water source located at a place called Imaliya Syahaa inside the jungles, we have laid a 4-km pipeline to draw th    Read More...

ORANG: About a 100 staff members with their limited resources have been doing a commendable job at managing the fledging tiger habitat in Assam's Orang Tiger Reserve. One of India's youngest tiger reserves, it also has the highest tiger density in the country, according to Assam forest department. At least, 36 tigers are said to be at the reserve. The reserve, about 150 kilometres from Guwahati, with a tiger density of 35.44 per hundred square kilometres, is scr    Read More...