India to urge China to curb illegal trade in tigers

India to urge China to curb illegal trade in tigers Priscilla Jebaraj & Ananth Krishnan Tuesday, Aug 31, 2010 Two delegations from New Delhi to hold talks in Beijing  The fourth India-China financial dialogue to be held after a 3-year hiatus Mechanism to share information on wildlife crime to be discussed NEW DELHI/BEIJING: Defence ties [...]

Lion count tempers tiger gloom

Lion count tempers tiger gloom OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT  Gandhinagar, May 2: Amid the gloom of 1,411, has come the joy of 411. Gir’s Asiatic lion population has jumped to 411, heartening animal lovers but also giving Narendra Modi a chance to reaffirm his opposition to lion relocation outside Gujarat. The chief minister today announced the [...]

Gujarat opposes shifting lion sanctuary to MP tiger reserve

Gujarat opposes shifting lion sanctuary to MP tiger reserve   PTI, 11 February 2010, 06:18pm IST   NEW DELHI: Amidst growing concern over depleting tiger population in the country, Gujarat stoutly opposed in the Supreme Court, the Centre’s proposal to shift the Gir Asiatic lions sanctuary to Kuno tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh. The Narendra [...]

Spot-the-big-cat treasure hunt begins

Spot-the-big-cat treasure hunt begins TNN, 23 January 2010, 03:50am IST BANGALORE: It was perhaps the luckiest day for a number of wildlife enthusiasts as they were in the thick of tiger territory in several forests of the state. Five groups of census-recording teams spotted three tigers and two leopards in Nagarahole, two tigers in BRT [...]

Big cats roar again in Karnataka

Big cats roar again in Karnataka By Team Mangalorean Bangalore Chikmagalur/Bangalore, January 24, 2010: On the third day of the Tiger Census volunteers and forest department officials have sighted rich presence of big cats in the reserved forests of Karnataka. The state has the second highest population of tigers in the country after MP, according [...]

Interview/Jairam Ramesh, Environment And Forests Minister

Interview/Jairam Ramesh, Environment And Forests Minister By Soni Mishra 01.17.2010 While 2009 saw climate change making headlines on a regular basis, lost in the clamour was the alarming decline in the number of tigers in the Indian wild. Setting the agenda for 2010, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh underlined the importance of focusing on [...]

Iran, Russia hope to revive extinct big cats

Iran, Russia hope to revive extinct big cats Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:10:22 GMT Iranian and Russian ecologists have announced ambitious plans to return Caspian Tigers as well as Asiatic cheetahs, which disappeared some half a century ago in their countries, to the wild. A delegation of Russian ecologists headed by Deputy Minister of Natural [...]

Financial assistance to tiger attack victims increased

Financial assistance to tiger attack victims increased Bipin Chand Agarwal, TNN 22 December 2009, 05:24am IST   BAHRAICH: An immediate financial assistance of Rs 5,000 will be given to those injured and Rs 10,000 who lost their lives in attacks by tigers and leopards in the forest area. Compensation for those killed in the attack [...]

Population of tiger, leopard rises at reserves

Population of tiger, leopard rises at reserves TNN 22 November 2009, 09:32pm IST   BAHRAICH: At least 15 tiger and leopard cubs have been sighted at various spots of the Dudhwa National park (DNP), 14 in Katarniaghat wild life sanctuary area and 6 in Sohelwa Tiger Reserve area Shailesh Prasad, field director Dudhwa Reserve told [...]

To check crimes against Big Cats, WWF to train forest officials

To check crimes against Big Cats, WWF to train forest officials   Neha Attre Posted: Monday , Nov 16, 2009 at 0636 hrs With an aim to check crime against leopards and tigers, World Wide Fund For Nature India (WWF-India) will impart training to Forest department officials manning areas with substantial population of these big [...]