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Govt likely to announce special cell to prevent tiger poaching

A week after a study by experts suggested that India’s tiger population may be alarmingly lower than previously thought, the Government is likely

There’s still no count of Sunderbans tigers

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.
6 months to go for final count, tiger numbers are down 37%

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...
Ban on tiger products: China team here to talk

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 discuss
3 C’garh habitats in Project Tiger

Tuesday , 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..
‘Don’t take this tiger family away’

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.
Two of the eight tigers not seen in new photo census
Eight tigers go missing from Ranthambhore park when everyone’s watching

Sunday , 22 April '07

Startling discovery comes in October 2006 photo-census which shows only 18 adults when 26 were counted in August 2005
Monitoring of Gir lions stepped up

Wednesday , 18 April '07

Rattled by the finding of two more lion carcasses on Saturday in Bhavnagar district
Second census in Gir in two years

Thursday , 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.
Gir poaching probe: Gujarat Govt claims breakthrough

Sunday , 8 April '07

The Gujarat Government today claimed a breakthrough in investigations into the two poaching cases in the Gir sanctuary last month.
Poachers passing off lion claw as tiger’s

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.
Five lions not accounted for in Gir

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.
Saurashtra roars for the lion

Tuesday , 3 April '07

Protests, against poaching deaths in Gir; corporates offering rewards for leads
Carcasses of three more lions found in Gir

Saturday , 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 Gir
Nandankanan white tiger numbers fall

Friday , 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.
Assam: CAG report reveals bungling of Project Tiger funds

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.
Letting Gir ‘guard’ down has opened doors to poaching

Tuesday , 13 March '07

Two incidents at Gir lion sanctuary — the poaching of three lions last week
MLA links Gir poaching to claw fashion

Thursday , 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.
Lax security continues to cripple Melghat

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 26
Where is the Melghat Tiger?

Monday , 26 February '07

What is the real tiger count in Melghat? That’s the question confronting wildlife activists and the Forest Department alike.
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