Feb
01
Villagers are generally aware of the need for tigers or other wild animals to survive in the forest, but they are not aware that the ferocious big cats can actually be their saviours. “Yes, wild boars do not venture within a radius of 10 km of a tiger,” the FDO affirmed. “After the arrival of tigers in our division, especially in Penchikalpet and Bejjur forests, the wild pig menace is under control,” Mr. Reddy claimed. “The number of cattle kills has also decrease ...
Feb
01
"The governments in Southeast Asia now face an urgent need to step up their commitment to protect their remaining wild tiger populations. Countries like India, Nepal and Russia have shown that tiger recovery is possible, despite challenges in poaching, funding and sustaining community livelihoods, which can be overcome with strong political commitment,” said Joseph Vattakaven, who participated in the stocktaking conference as the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) global lead ...
Jan
30
Hopefully an increase in tiger numbers in areas of the Sunderbans where they have not previously been seen. Camera traps were installed in western sections of the National Park and the Sajnekhali Range which is the second part of the of the tiger census in the mangroves. Officials in Bengal are hopeful of a rise in tiger num ...
Jan
30
Born Free says the dramatic demise of tigers in the wild has seen 96 per cent of their population disappear in the last hundred years. Read this concerning article that recently appeared in the Daily Mail and containing a number of photographs that I have taken of wild tigers in India.
https://dailym.ai/2DjhvGx
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Jan
02
Two tigers have died of suspected poisoning at the end of 2018 on the periphery of Umred-Karhandla-Paoni Wildlife Sanctuary in Nagpur taking the number of tiger deaths to 21 in the State for last year. Spread across and area of 189.30 sqkm of dense forest the sanctuary is home to between 11-15 tigers. More on this tragic loss of precious tigers can be read by following the link below.
https://bit.ly/2AqktqX ...
Jan
02
The Chandrapur Forest Dept. has requested new underpasses and the clearing of existing blocked ones to save wild animals from being killed by trains in the Brahmapuri-Chandrapur line section. Three tiger cubs were killed in on November 15th by the speeding Chanda Fort-Gondia passenger train together with 24 wild animals including tigers, sloth bears, leopards, hyenas, bison, wild boar, nilgai and deer during the last 8 years. More on this ...
Dec
22
Time is running out for the Malayan tigers in the wild. Unless conservation efforts are stepped up these critically endangered striped predators might well go extinct in their habitats of Malaysia. The Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jackson) is about to go extinct in the wild. ...
Dec
19
Dec
19
According to the National Tiger Conservation Authority's (NTCA) records to December 15, 2018, there have been 95 cases of tiger deaths in India. Of this, 41 cases of tiger deaths outside tiger reserves have been reported. Of this number, 14 occurred in Maharashtra, which accounted for over 34% of all deaths outside tiger reserves in the country. A total of 19 tiger deaths were recorded in Maharashtra in 2018, so that tiger deaths outside of tiger reserves comprise more than 70% ...
Nov
16
I enjoyed an excellent 2 weeks in India from the 24th October 2019 where my time was spent at Pench and Tadoba tiger reserves. There were a number of memorable tiger sightings at both reserves but for me perhaps the most interesting was at Tadoba where on 2 ocassions I was privilaged to see and photograph tigress Choti Tara with her 3 small cubs. My last day at the tiger reserve I was not to be disappointed as after waiting patiently for over 1 hour the tigress appeared through the beautiful l ...
Nov
09
Tigress Avni, a six-year-old mother-of-two, was killed by an unauthorised hunter in a highly controversial operation in Maharashtra last week. The autopsy of tigress Avni has yielded clear evidence of foul play, sources in the Maharashtra government have told ThePrint. The autopsy report, which is yet to be released by the state forest department, shows that the tigress was shot in her shoulder, with the bullet then tracing a path through her ribs to come out through the other shoul ...
Oct
15
After more than 30 deaths due to tiger attacks in the areas adjoining the forests of Pilibhit and Lakhimpur Kheri districts over the past 2 years, the forest department has made a successful trial with fox lights that can keep tigers away from human habitation. To check the effect of fox lights on big cats such as tiger and leopard, the forest department installed 3 fox lights at a farm in the Sundarpur village of South Kheri for ...