AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court directed the Centre to decide on declaring Gir Natioanl Park & Sanctuary and the adjacent Paniya and Mitiyala Sanctuary a ‘Critical Wildlife Habitat’ in 12 weeks’ time. The court said the authorities should take an early decision, preferably within 12 weeks, under provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional […]
The Asiatic lion population has seen a steady increase in Gir sanctuary, as stated by Mr Vijay Rupani, chief minister of Gujarat. An unofficial count conducted recently showed the total count of the felines to have reached 600, which is an approximate ten percent increase from the 523 lions of the 2015 census. The next […]
PC-Stefan van den Akker/Wikimedia Commons. This agreement includes transboundary landscape management, as well as an agreement to focus on conservation of species like elephant, rhino and tiger. The two nations with common boundaries plan to sign the Memorandum of Agreement(MOU). The agreement is expected to put an emphasis on tiger conservation. As per the 2014 tiger population estimation, […]
(Photo: Reuters) A male tiger — ST-16 — brought from Ranthambore to Sariska in April is no more. According to the officials, they operated on his injured leg on Saturday after it was tranquilised. Then ST-16 was released in the forest but later the officials recovered its dead body. If numbers are to be believed, with […]
SIX Persons, including a juvenile, were held by the forest department on Monday after they were allegedly caught red-handed organising an illegal lion show in revenue area Veraval taluka of Gir Somnath district. Revenue areas are not considered part of the wildlife sanctuary. Five of the six accused were identified as Aniruddha Nathani (30), Hiren Vaishnav […]
Siddapura: Concerned at the increasing instances of elephant-human conflict, the Forest Department, for the first time in Kodagu, has put radio collars on elephants to study their migration patterns. A tool embedded in the collar will send signals 24X7.
Highlights If the initial trend in the analysis made by the state forest department is to be believed, at least 94 big cats were photographed in the mangroves. A senior state forest department official said they expected an upper limit of 110 tigers on the Indian side of the Sunderbans. KOLKATA: Indian Sunderbans is set […]
PC-Sooraj Puthiyedam Jaipur: A tourist and his guide were jointly fined Rs 51,000 for allegedly pelting stones at a sleeping tiger in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in a bid to get the perfect “action shot” on Tuesday. The cruelty was captured in thermal-imaging cameras used to monitor big cats in the park. The forest department also […]
After poaching surged recently, the South African government turned to techniques more often to study consumers to help identify-and shut down-the networks that connect illegal guns, poachers and rhino horn buyers. Poaching has surged in South Africa over the last decade and thousands of rhinos have been killed for their horns. Much of the poaching […]
PC- Soumyajit Nandy KOLKATA: A Bengal tiger was found dead with a wire snare around its waist — indicating poaching — on Monday in the Sunderbans, a Unesco World Heritage site that has also been recently recognised as a Ramsar site. The death of the tiger — an endangered species, accorded the highest level of protection under the Wildlife Protection […]
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