Tiger Reserves

AN American consultancy firm that was the sole proposer at the end of three Request for Proposal (RFP) bids has forwarded a plan of over Rs 800 crore to the state government to develop eco-tourism in the buffer area of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR). But forest officials are apprehensive as the proposal is financially cumbersome and has the potential to hinder wildlife movement. While some officials feel that the components proposed in the plan shouldn’    Read More...

The Royal Bengal is the most protected animal in India and its population is booming, but missing tigers are the weakest link in the conservation success story. There’s hardly any mechanism to monitor tigers that have strayed out of their designated habitat. The flaw keeps drifters out of the loop and the forest officials have no clue about them. Among the missing tigers in recent times was Ookhan of Tadoba-Andhari in Maharashtra. He was found this Marc    Read More...

Opposed by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to protect passage of tigers from Ranthambore National Park (RNP), the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) is deliberating if 200 hectares of forest in the park’s buffer zone can be denotified for a mining project. The project in question is ACC Limited’s Lakheri Chamovali limestone mining project in Bundi district in Rajasthan. It proposes to feed raw material to the Lakheri cement plan    Read More...

The number of Indian tigers had hit an all time low of 1,411 in 2006, however the estimated tiger population in India had drastically improved to 2,226 in 2014. Now, according to a Mid-Day report, a data compiled by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) indicates that 2017 could again be a bad year for India's tigers. In the first 65 days of 2017, 21 tiger deaths have been reported. The numbers uploaded on Tigernet revealed that 19 tigers had died in th    Read More...

To ensure a more accurate census exercise of tigers and other vulnerable and endangered animals in forests across India in 2018, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to double the number of camera traps. The recent missive from NTCA calls for bringing down the grid size of setting up camera traps from 4 sq km to 2 sq km. India has 50 tiger reserves spread over 18 tiger range states — Maharashtra has six. The new norm will be binding    Read More...