Oct

26

Coal highway in Sumatra destroying valuable wildlife habitat

• Posted 26th October 2020

Coal highway through Sumatran forest threatens wildlife and people.  Sun >bears, black with bright yellow patches on their chests, are among hundreds of vulnerable species threatened by the plans of Indonesian mining companies to build a highway through the forest in Jambi and South Sumatra provinces. >Other species threatened by the road include elephants and Sumatran tigers, both of which the IUCN has listed as critically endangered. Only around 400 Sumatran tigers are t ...

Oct

23

Maharashtra male tiger still avoiding capture

• Posted 23rd October 2020

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) authorities have issued an advisory to Maharashtra chief wildlife warden (CWLW) to ensure the forest department’s employees’ safety following allegations by activists that the staff was being used as bait to trap an elusive male tiger (RT1).  HT had reported on October 18 that forest staff members have been stationed inside two camouflaged cages that are located 40 metres away from the main trapping area with a calf as bait sinc ...

Oct

09

Another problem tiger in Maharashtra faces capture.

• Posted 9th October 2020

The “problem” tiger of Rajura in Chandrapur district seems to have claimed its eighth victim on Monday, raising urgency over the need to catch it. Forest officials said the tiger, named RT1, killed a senior citizen from Khambada village in Rajura tehsil.  This tiger has attacked 11 people so far, leading to eight deaths and three injuries. This is the highest number of human casualties caused by any tiger in Maharashtra.  The previous record was of five deaths c ...

Oct

09

Tigers and other wildlife using busy road underpasses

• Posted 9th October 2020

Scientists from Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Dehradun who conducted a two-year study have found that 18 wildlife species are using special underpasses on National Highway-44 which passes through the Pench Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra.  As part of a study on, “Ecological Impact Assessment of Existing and Proposed Road Infrastructure on Important Wildlife Corridors in India for Strategic Planning of Smart Green Infrastructure,” three sites were studied in India. These inclu ...

Oct

09

Study group to be set up due to solve human/tiger problems at Chandrapur

• Posted 9th October 2020

Taking cognisance of the rising human-tiger conflict in Chandrapur, the Maharashtra government has set up an 11-member committee to look into options for conservation, relocation of tigers, and suggest measures to reduce conflict.  “Since Chandrapur has the highest number of tigers in the state, the number of conflict cases has increased. As directed by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, this committee will assess different aspects associated with this conflict such as suspected probl ...

Oct

08

Sunderbans male tiger released after trapping operation.

• Posted 8th October 2020

Sunderbans released  taken Jharkhali checking of parameters forest same division on Wednesday afternoon, said chief VK Yadav. Follow the link below for more on this interesting report. https://bit.ly/33E6yMU ...

Oct

03

Uttarakhand forest dept. to radio collar animals for study

• Posted 3rd October 2020

Forest department authorities have initiated the process to put radio collars on five tigers, 10 elephants and 15 leopards in the hill state in a bid to study the animals’ movements and behaviorial pattern and also prevent the growing man-animal conflict. More on this interesting project by following the link below. https://bit.ly/3ndrNN7 ...

Sep

26

Tigress to be captured in Maharashtra

• Posted 26th September 2020

The Maharashtra principal chief conservator of forest (PCCF-wildlife) issued orders on Monday evening to capture a tigress involved in man-animal conflict in Yavatmal district.  The decision comes two days after a woman (60) was mauled to death by the tigress at an agricultural field near Andharwadi and Pattanbori villages, which are located adjacent to Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary.   State forest department officials said the tigress was being routinely spotted through camera trap i ...

Sep

11

Search for wild tiger in Thailand

• Posted 11th September 2020

A drone has been deployed in the hunt for a wild tiger believed to have wandered outside its natural habitat at the Huey Kha Kheng wildlife sanctuary. The sanctuary, in the northern province of Uthai Thani, has brought in forest rangers in an attempt to track down the tiger, whose footprints were spotted in a nearby maize plantation.  See link below to read more. https://bit.ly/35Aqt0J ...

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 ...