UP's 4th tiger reserve proposed in Chitrakoot
LUCKNOW: The forest department has sent a proposal to the state government to develop Ranipur wildlife sanctuary as the fourth tiger reserve in UP. The reserve may become a habitat for tigers crossing
Panna NP
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Slow progress in big cat conservation
The ongoing year is inching closer to an end but the passing year would be not be a memorable one for the major big cat conservation projects in the State. This year, the State Forest Department had to face the ignominy and all round criticism for wipeout of tigers from Panna.
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Homesick tiger eludes captors, heads for Pench
The effort of Madhya Pradesh forest officials to catch the elusive tiger, which had deserted Panna National Park last month, is still on. The big cat was spotted at the Taradehi forest in Damoh district on Thursday. For almost a month, the forest officials have been keeping a round-the-clock vigil to trace the tiger.
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Straying big cat puts tiger relocation plan in M.P. on hold
A relocated tiger has strayed form Panna sanctuary for the past 25 days It has covered 200 km it seems that it is now moving towards its home at Pench
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Center directs State to cage straying Panna tiger
The straying feline, which had deserted the Panna National Park around a fortnight ago, might now be put in confinement shortly. The Central Government has reportedly directed the State to keep the tiger inside the enclosure till it gets acclimatised to the park. However, the recent goof up has certainly exposed the botched up translocation process adopted by the State Forest Department.
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Jairam seeks review of MP river-linking project
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has asked the Centre to review the Ken-Betwa river-linking project in Madhya Pradesh in view of the ecological implications. In a letter to Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mr. Ramesh suggested that it
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Poaching racket in Panna exposed
THE Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) on Saturday nabbed three poachers with iron traps in Panna Tiger Reserve. All three belonged to the Pardhi community. "These people had come from Maharashtra and would have tried to trap a tiger or a deer," said a WCCB official. There are currently two tigresses in Panna, both have been relocated there from neighbouring reserves.
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Pench tiger to be shifted to Panna
Seven months after two tigresses were shifted to Panna, Madhya Pradesh forest officials have finally found a suitable tiger in the Pench reserve to be translocated to Panna. The forest officials had identified a tiger in Bandhavgarh recently but the translocation was stopped when experts warned that it could belong to the same gene pool as one of the tigresses shifted in March.
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Aid given to relocate villages in tiger reserves
Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Manas sanctuary in Assam have been given a financial package for the year 2008-09, according to an environment ministry official The Centre has released nearly Rs 100 crores to five states to relocate villages in tiger reserves to free the animals from human interference with Madhya Pradesh getting almost half of the total fund share.
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Attempt to re-establish contact with tigress
Bhopal: The authorities in the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh seem to have
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Panna tigers give clue to Sundarbans tigers' deaths?
Those in Bangladesh who argue that the death four years ago of two Sundarbans tigers was due to reckless research have found support for their contention in the findings of an official Indian investigation into the deaths of Panna tigers in Madhya Pradesh.