‘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 [...]

Film on R’bore tiger wins 3 awards in US

Anindo DeyAnindo Dey, TNN | Oct 11, 2011, 02.28AM IST JAIPUR: In a rare laurel for Ranthambore National Park, a documentary film on a tiger at the park has recently won three awards including that of the ‘best film award’ at a film festival in Jackson Hole, US. The film christened ‘Broken Tail’ is the [...]

Russian and US veterinarians collaborate to solve mysterious wild tiger deaths

A camera trap image of a Siberian (Amur) tiger in the Russian Far East. A team of health experts from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society and several Russian organizations have confirmed the presence of distemper in wild tiger populations, a finding that will enable conservationists to formulate measures to mitigate this recent threat. Credit: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thai Police Arrest Suspected Tiger Trafficker

A 15-month-old female Bengal tiger looks out from its cage during a police news conference in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, May 22, 2011. Police in Thailand have arrested a man suspected of being a key player in one of the country’s largest tiger trafficking rings, police and a wildlife conservation group said Sunday. (Apichart Weerawong/AP Photo) [...]

Tiger population: Headache for wildlifers

Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times New Delhi, March 26, 2011 The government on Monday will announce that India’s tiger population has increased but it may not be a reason for cheer with inviolate space for the big cat decreasing. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh will announce an increase of over 100 tigers as first reported by HT [...]