A week after a study by experts suggested that India’s tiger population may be alarmingly lower than previously thought, the Government is likely
Monday , 28 May '07
The tiger census report eludes West Bengal even as the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) recently announced the census reports of six states in the country.Thursday , 24 May '07
Preliminary findings of a new study on tiger population in India show there are lesser number of tigers in the country than previously believed — in some tiger reserves, lesser by more...Wednesday , 16 May '07
In order to facilitate its traditional medicine industry, a Chinese delegation of State Forestry Administration officials is in New Delhi to discussTuesday , 15 May '07
The Centre has brought three Chhattisgarh tiger habitats—Achanakmar, Sitanadi and Udanti—under Project Tiger. The rising number of tigers and support species of herbivores..
Thursday , 10 May '07
Amid frequent stories of poaching in wildcats across the country comes an unusual tale of how villagers forced forest authorities to put on hold a plan to relocate a tigress and its cubs from Bandhavgarh National Park.
Sunday , 22 April '07
Startling discovery comes in October 2006 photo-census which shows only 18 adults when 26 were counted in August 2005Wednesday , 18 April '07
Rattled by the finding of two more lion carcasses on Saturday in Bhavnagar districtThursday , 12 April '07
The State Forest Department has launched a massive exercise to conduct an unofficial census of lions in the Gir National Park and Sanctuary and reserve forests on the periphery.Sunday , 8 April '07
The Gujarat Government today claimed a breakthrough in investigations into the two poaching cases in the Gir sanctuary last month.Friday , 6 April '07
Poaching was never a big issue at Gir Wildlife Sanctuary... But that is not so now. A rising number of lion deaths has made it a national concern.Wednesday , 4 April '07
Even as the arrests made by the police in connection with the Gir poaching cases turned out to be false alarms, there is a buzz in the forest department about five other lions missing from the Babaria Forest Range area where the two poaching incidents occurred last month.Tuesday , 3 April '07
Protests, against poaching deaths in Gir; corporates offering rewards for leadsSaturday , 31 March '07
The discovery of mutilated carcasses of three lions and a hyena, indicating yet another poaching incident at Babaria range have sent alarm bells ringing in GirFriday , 30 March '07
While tigers, Nandankanan Zoo’s prized possession, once posed a problem of plenty for the famous animal park. But not any more.Friday , 16 March '07
The 2001-2 count may have shown Assam to have the highest tiger count in the country with 354 big cats.Tuesday , 13 March '07
Two incidents at Gir lion sanctuary — the poaching of three lions last weekThursday , 8 March '07
There are more than 5,000 men in the Saurashtra wearing lion claws, said Babra BJP MLA Bavkubhai Unghad in House on Tuesday.Sunday , 4 March '07
Though the Forest Department has woken up to the need to tackle the poaching problem in Melghat Tiger Reserve following the report published in The Indian Express on February 26Monday , 26 February '07
What is the real tiger count in Melghat? That’s the question confronting wildlife activists and the Forest Department alike.