Feb

20

Forest guards in Assam to receive modern weapons to protect wildlife

• Posted 20th February 2018

In an encouraging move to protect and save wildlife including tigers and rhinos forest staff employed to protect animals from poachers are to receive modern weapons to fight poaching of their charges. Assam with 5 National Parks and 19 Wildlife Sanctuaries is home to more than 91% of the endangered One Horned Rhino plus 167 tigers, 248 leopards and many other wildlife varieties.  In addition the State have created 10 wildlife fast-track courts which have been set up to deal exclusively wi ...

Feb

03

Tiger count started in Kerala as part of the all India tiger census

• Posted 3rd February 2018

The Indian State of Kerala has commenced its count of wild tigers within the state's boundaries which is taking place between the 2-9 February. The census takes place throughout India every 4 years and since 2006 when the State recorded 46 tigers the numbers have steadily increased and in 2014 approximately 134 big cats were recorded. More on methodology of the census can be found by following the link below. http://bit.ly/2FIhHNF ...

Jan

23

Laos still operating 'tiger farms' defying trafficking ban.

• Posted 23rd January 2018

Three tigers have been discovered killed near a protected forest area in Laos. The discovery has drawn attention to the presence in the country of 3 privately owned tiger farms where tigers are kept for sale in spite of a wildlife trafficking ban. At present it is not known if the tigers came from the tiger farms or from the forest. According to a WWF report the tiger farms in Laos are holding a total of 500 tigers.  Although Laos announce ...

Jan

22

UK based NGO causes bad feeling in India.

• Posted 22nd January 2018

Hundreds of guides and drivers at some of India's National Parks are protesting over comments made regarding boycotting India's tiger reserves. The NGO (Survival International) is of the opinion that tribal people are being illegally evicted from their forest home.  Tourism in India's forests is a major sourse of revenue and employs over 80,000 people plus many others indirectly involved in tourism. Relocation of villages from tiger reserves is strictly controlled and adh ...

Jan

16

Concern for tigers in the smaller protected areas.

• Posted 16th January 2018

A team of researchers have expressed concern for tigers living in the smaller protected areas (PAs) due mainly to unplanned road development.  The reseachers emphasised the importance of connectivity between between PAs to preserve tiger genetic diversity and minimise extinction into the next century.  The Central Indian Landscape with a forest cover of 34% contains an estimated tiger population of 688.  The PAs in the landscape ...

Jan

15

Myanmar looking at India for advise in helping to increase tiger numbers

• Posted 15th January 2018

A delegation from Myanmar is spending time in India for advice on increasing tiger numbers in their country. Myanmar has the largest tiger landscape in the world with about 20,000 sg.km.but being home to only about 30 tigers. In an effort to double its tiger population and reach the global target the delegation is seeking advice from India on the best ways forward to succeeding in increasing its tiger numbers.  Among the 13 tiger range countries India has about 60% of the worlds tiger pop ...

Jan

13

Solar powered pumps are being installed to quench the thirst of tigers and other forest animals in the summer.

• Posted 13th January 2018

At Nagarahole and Bandipur more solar powered pumps are being installed to help fill the water tanks in an effort to help tigers and other forest dwelling wild animals find water during the very hot summer months of the year.  An existing pump at Nagarahole drew 60,000 to 70,000 litres of water to a tank drawing many wild animals including tigers to the site. More information can be found by following the link below.   http://bit.ly/2EDXpV3 ...

Jan

11

Almost 1,000 people take part in Karnataka's tiger census

• Posted 11th January 2018

A census to estimate tiger numbers is taking place in five tiger reserves and three wildlife sanctuaries in the Indian State of Karnatika. The tiger census is being carried out on different dates throughout India where the last census in 2014 showed a wild tiger population throughout the country of between 1,945 to 2,491 big cats. Karnatika alone showed the largest number of tigers in India during the last census with a count of 406 animals. The world population of wild tigers stands at about ...

Jan

10

Very cold weather has not deterred the census at Bandipur and Nagarahole

• Posted 10th January 2018

Day 2 of the tiger census at Bandipur and Nagarahole continues in biting cold weather. Over 60 volunteers and 250 forest department staff are working to carry out the census in the 12 zones at Bandipur with a further 30 volunteers and forest staff are carrying out the census at Nagarahole tiger reserve. To help forest staff and volunteers in recording accurate data The Wildlife Institue of India has produced an app. known as 'The Monitoring System for Tiger Intensive Protection and Ecologi ...

Dec

21

Tiger killed by poachers at Panna tiger reserve.

• Posted 21st December 2017

Sadly after all the tigers at Panna were wiped out by poachers some 10 years ago and was subsequently re-populated with tigers from other tiger reserves a tiger was kiiled this week by poachers.  In this instance it is reported that a 3 year old tiger was victim to a wire trap. The latest stastics show a population and conservation success at Panna of more than 30 tigers with ...

Dec

20

Tigers moving from Ranthambhore due to increase in numbers.

• Posted 20th December 2017

From Ranthambhore tiger T.91 migrated to Ramgarh Vishdhari sanctuary in Bundi probably in search of a forest area where it could create a safe home range of its own.  The big cat has been tracked by forest staff for the past week and it remains to be seen whether the tiger will return to Ranthambore or perhaps try to find its way to the M ...

Dec

15

Sadly more tiger deaths reported in the State of Madhya Pradesh

• Posted 15th December 2017

Since the first week of November the death of 3 tigers and a cub have been reported in the Umaria-Shahdol region on Madhya Pradesh. One of the tigers was a female who had two cubs; one of the cubs was found dead while a search is on for the second cub although there is very little hope for its survival. Madhya Pradesh is the home to about 20% of India's tiger population which amounted to 308 within its six protected areas including Bandhavg ...

Dec

06

Ranthambhore's isolation causes concern over inbreeding.

• Posted 6th December 2017

On a recent study by the Wildlife Institute of India concern was over the inbreeding of tigers at Ranthambhore and Sariska in Rajasthan. As this group of tigers are isolated from tigers in other parts of the Indian sub-continent the worry is that the gene pool is diluted and the risk of extinction of tigers in Rajasthan becomes a possibilty. However the study also point out that to date  '>Tigers in Rajasthan are unique and it is ...

Dec

06

Only 2 viable strongholds remain for the Sumatran tiger.

• Posted 6th December 2017

A stark warning on the future of the small remaining population of wild tigers on the island of Sumatra.  The tiger has already been lost on the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali and unless serious efforts are made by the authorities to halt the continued deforestation of the island; the Sumatran tiger in the wild will also disappear. There are now only 2 areas in Sumatra that contain a viable population of at least 25 breeding female ti ...

Nov

28

3 Himalayan Nations join forces to carry out a tiger census at high altitudes.

• Posted 28th November 2017

A long awaited and most interesting census is to take place at altitudes of 10,000 feet plus in northern India, Bhutan and Nepal.  >The process is likely to be carried under the umbrella of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it. The main threat to the tiger in these upper reaches is habitat loss and poaching of their prey ba ...