Aug

19

Karnataka elephants being sent to Chandrapur

• Posted 19th August 2020

Three trained elephants from Karnataka will be brought to Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) buffer area. These elephants will join the three other elephants at the reserve area to curb conflicts across wildlife habitats interspersed with villages. The decision was presented before the State Board of Wildlife (SBWL) during its August 7 meeting.  Nitin Kakodkar, principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife), said, “All formalities to bring the three tuskers from Mathidogu and Dub ...

Aug

19

Beekeeping-a step in the right direction.

• Posted 19th August 2020

The government of the Indian state of West Bengal has started a new initiative, offering locals an alternative livelihood based on beekeepingmangrove forest, the largest on the planet, in a bid to  and .  Please see the link below to read more on this innovative step forward. https://bit.ly/3iR1r0w ...

Aug

11

Special tiger reserves to be created in MP.

• Posted 11th August 2020

In a first of its kind move, Madhya Pradesh forest department is planning to develop ‘special tiger reserves’ to house the big cats captured in the forest and held in captivity in the zoos for various reasons, to ease pressure of tourism on the tiger reserves in the state.  The tigers identified to be released in the proposed ‘special tiger reserves’ included the big cats which have a history of killing human beings, called in common parlance as ‘man-eaters&r ...

Aug

05

A second tiger death at Rajasthan's Mukundra Tiger Reserve

• Posted 5th August 2020

Sadly within 2 weeks a second tiger has been found dead at the Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan.  The  Named MT-2, the wild cat was said to be in sound health and a post-mortem report is still awaited, Dr Tejendra Reyad of MHTR said. The other four-year-old male tiger was named MT-3 and was found dead on July 23.   ...

Aug

01

Active armed poachers in some tiger reserves

• Posted 1st August 2020

Motion-sensitive cameras in areas census captured big cats, but also exposed stark reality of armed having a run in some reserves in Telangana. of Tigers, Co-predators and Prey in released by Centre on Tuesday, has revealed presence of armed poachers and snared in Amrabad reserve.   According to report, camera images presence armed in Jharkhand's Palarnau reserve and Chhatti ...

Aug

01

Good news for tigers in Nepal

• Posted 1st August 2020

In mid-April, as the country reeled under a stay-at-home order amid the Covid-19 pandemic, there was news from the far western region which would start a new chapter in Nepal’s tiger conservation efforts. A tiger was spotted at an elevation of 2,500 metres in the Mahabharat range forest area of Dadeldhura district, making it the first ever sighting of the predator at such a high altitude in Nepal.   Tiger species is usually found in Nepal’s five protected parks and adjoining ...

Jul

30

Corona virus has curtailed all my travel plans abroad for 2020

• Posted 30th July 2020

Sadly and along with so many other people my travel plans to India and other countries for 2020 have been cancelled.  My first flight this year in March was scheduled for India where I was to spend 2 weeks photographing tigers and other wildlife at Tadoba Andran Tiger Reserve. This visit was cancelled by the airline about 2 weeks before I was due to fly. 3 other booked flights that were due to follow were also subsequently cancelled.   As much as I would like to make wildlife trave ...

Jul

30

Tigers dispersing longer distances to find a home range.

• Posted 30th July 2020

Wild tigers have travelled close to 300 km across state borders. They have crossed several wildlife areas and villages.  A male tiger, which was residing in Chandoli National Park of Sahyadri Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra has now made Kali Tiger Reserve in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka its new home. The tiger was first camera-trapped in 2018 in Sahyadri Tiger Reserve Nandurbar and in May 2020 the same tiger has been seen in Kali Tiger Reserve in Dandeli. Please see the link bel ...

Jul

29

International Tiger Day

• Posted 29th July 2020

Celebrating 29th July International Tiger Day also known as Global Tiger Day. Founded in 2010 when the 13 tiger range countries came together at St. Petersburg. They agreed a global goal to double wild tiger numbers by 2022 and to raise awareness for tiger conservation and their habitat. Wishing all those Asian countries every success in achieving this goal. ...

Jul

25

Tiger dies after eating feral cattle.

• Posted 25th July 2020

Tiger in Kota’s MHTR sanctuary dies after preying on feral cattle.  Feral cattle are believed to be a problem in all tiger reserves across the country, which are exposed to villages and human habitation.  A tiger has died in Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve (MHTR) in Rajasthan’s Kota district because of preying on feral cattle that led to accumulation of fat in its vital organs, which has triggered a fresh move to relocate at least three of the 14 villages located within ...

Jul

14

3 tigers spend night with humans during flood

• Posted 14th July 2020

Kaziranga floods | 3 wild tigers spend night with humans, domestic animals.   The tiger had strayed out from the submerged areas inside the forest to move to the higher reaches as flood in Assam has inundated nearly 95 percent of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve. Finding no other place, the big cat took shelter beneath the fenced goat-shed with only its head sticking out of the water. After an 11-hour wait, the animal was given safe passage. More on this fascinating story by ...

Jul

12

India's 2018 tiger census sets new Guinness record

• Posted 12th July 2020

India's 2018 tiger census sets new Guinness Record as largest camera-trap wildlife survey.  In 2018, India had as many as 2,967 tigers in the wild, with more than half of them in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, according to that year's tiger estimation report.  The paired camera traps were placed at 26,760 different locations across 139 study sites, which generated approximately 35 million photos, including 76,523 tiger and 51,337 leopard photos.  More on this tiger c ...

Jul

08

Jaguars following tigers for use in Chinese medicine

• Posted 8th July 2020

Jaguars are also being killed for their teeth and other body parts so as they can be used in traditional Chinese medicine. China's huge economic influence has stretched across the planet to Central and South America where it is investing enormous amounts of money in poorer countries and as an offshoot wildlife and in particular the big cats are suffering by vacuming their skins and body parts back to China.  Tigers in the wild are on their last legs throughout their remaining ranges w ...

Jul

08

State awaiting go ahead to release Avani's sub-adult cub back into the forest.

• Posted 8th July 2020

Hopefully Avani's cub will shortly be released into the wild.  After failing to release the female cub (T1C2) of alleged man-eater tigress T1 or Avni last year, the Maharashtra forest department has yet again decided to go ahead with the plan this year post monsoon.  T1C2, now a sub-adult tigress, aged two-and-a-half years, has been kept in captivity in a 4.5-hectare (ha) area in Pench Tiger Reserve since December 22, 2018. She was captured around a month after Avni was shot dead ...

Jul

02

Beautiful Amur tigress takes her 3 cubs to a lake.

• Posted 2nd July 2020

Beautiful Amur tigress walks with her 3 cubs to a lake in the forest.  The core population is under the protection of the Land of the Leopard Nature Reserve, established by the Russian government to seek to save the endangered species from extinction. More on this fascinating story including a video at the time can be seen by following this link below.   https://bit.ly/2NPQYoA ...