‘Toothless’ regional tiger cell meets today

Vijay PinjarkarVijay Pinjarkar, TNN | Feb 21, 2012, 06.11AM IST NAGPUR: With time running out for tigers and wildlife in particular due to poaching and the shrinking habitat, the regional tiger cell will meet on Tuesday after a gap of nine months to address various issues. PK Mahajan, deputy conservator of forests (DyCF) for Nagpur [...]

Crackdown on tiger poachers, 11 held

Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times New Delhi, February 09, 2012 A network of tiger poachers spanning across four states has been unearthed with the arrest of eleven members of three gangs in the last fortnight. Skin of eight leopard and tigers and five kilogram of bones have been seized from them. Their claim of killing eight [...]

India’s first anti-poaching tiger force begins work

By Habib Beary Bangalore 4 January 2012 Last updated at 07:04 ET India’s first forest ranger unit charged specifically with preventing tiger poaching has gone into action. The 54-member force will patrol tiger reserves in national parks straddling the borders of Karnataka, Tamil Nado and Kerala states in the south. The Special Tiger Protection Force [...]

Tigress killing condemned; NTCA to send fact-finding team

Vijay PinjarkarVijay Pinjarkar, TNN | Sep 26, 2011, 03.58AM IST NAGPUR: Even as the brutal killing of the Maharashtra tigress by a furious mob in Bhakru Tola near Bamni on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border is being widely condemned, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) will send a fact-finding team to ascertain the truth. The full-grown tigress [...]

Chhattisgarh villagers pound Maharashtra tigress to death

Vijay Pinjarkar & Supriya Sharma, TNN Sep 25, 2011, 08.19am IST NAGPUR/RAIPUR: In perhaps the first case of revenge killing of its kind, a tigress around 4-5 years old was beaten to death with stones and sticks on Saturday afternoon by a mob of over 5,000 people in Bhakru Tola near Bamni in Chhattisgarh. The [...]

With 200 tigers, Corbett turns a proud 75

A majestic Royal Bengal Tiger in the Corbett National Park, which completes 75 years this year. IANS | Sep 11, 2011, 01.48PM IST One of the nurseries of India’s tiger conservation movement and Asia’s first endeavour to have a national park, the Corbett National Park turns 75 this year, marking a string of successes despite [...]

Tigers Like Tony Need Your Help Now!!!

Tony The Truck Stop Tiger represents one of the thousands of privately owned tigers in the United States whose numbers are greater than tigers left in the wild. Captive U.S. tigers languish in roadside zoos and attractions, are exploited and abused in circuses, photo ops and exhibitions, entertainment shows, pseudo-sanctuaries, bred for profit or are [...]

Tiger Poacher, Via Phone, is Witness for His Own Prosecution

July 14, 2011, 4:41 pm By ANDREW C. REVKIN When a wildlife conservation patrol in Thailand’s Western Forest Province surprised some poachers, a pile of abandoned gear, particularly a cell phone, provided evidence of their crime: The short slide show tells the story. In a statement, Joe Walston, who directs programs in Asia for the [...]

Tiger poachers caught on camera — their own

Two suspects arrested in Thailand after park rangers recovered images on cell phone msnbc.com Updated 7/14/2011 1:14:17 PM ET 2011-07-14T17:14:17 Two men suspected of killing endangered tigers in Thailand have been arrested, a U.S. conservation group said Thursday, and the key evidence turned out to be cell phone images of them with their prizes. A [...]

Easy, tiger! Incredible moment huge animal is released back into the wild after being rescued from a poacher’s snare

By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:15 PM on 3rd July 2011 This is the incredible moment an angry and fearsome tiger makes a bid for freedom – after being rescued from a poacher’s snare. The hulking beast, named Victor, was nursed back to health by experts for a week after being caught in [...]