Run-up to World Tiger Day: Can India become a tiger utopia?

The country should put more emphasis on educating people and changing their attitudes, so that a doubled tiger population can thrive with lesser …

The catch in conservation

Ullas Karanth has many lessons to offer to make wildlife management in India more scientific

'Mission Tiger will make an emotional appeal to poachers to save the big cat'

Poachers come from very poor backgrounds and some poach for as meagre as Rs 2000 per tiger

India’s tiger population up from 2,226 to 2,500: Javadekar

Environment minister Prakash Javadekar spoke of the positive trend in tiger population at the 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference

Tiger survey: Census work covers 400 sq km in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist territory

Indravati Tiger Reserve had three tigers in 2018-19

New study shows over a third of protected areas in Asia are severely at risk of losing tigers

Southeast Asia more likely to lose tigers than South or East Asia, it says

Tigress and two cubs found dead in core area of Pench Tiger Reserve

The initial autopsy report suggests poisoning

International Tiger Day 2023: Should India cap its big cat population? Here is what experts say

Are India’s forests nearing their carrying capacity to support tigers, who are apex predators? DTE puts the question to scientists

Why is India considering translocating tigers to Cambodia?

Successful reintroduction will increase tourism income and restore ecological balance for Cambodia

World Tiger Day: The tiger was not endemic to India; it came here from China

As the world celebrates the largest felid today, here are some frequently asked questions on how the tiger came to be in the Indian subcontinent &…

Nandan Kanan: 3 tiger cubs dead in a month

The cubs were being hand-reared before their deaths after being abandoned by their mother

Forest officials attacked in the Sundarbans

A party of officials led by the Divisional Forest Officer in the South 24 Paraganas were attacked with sticks when they tried to arrest an …

Top 10 facts about Machli, the Tigress Queen of Ranthambore

Between 1998 and 2009, the extraordinary popularity of Machli helped the Indian government earn nearly US$100 million.

Simply Put: International Tiger Day 2023

Tiger conference: snow leopard, big cat conservation and tackling wildlife crime high on radar

Participants focus on 2017 Snow Leopard Summit, tiger recovery programme and poaching

Endangered Species Day 2023: Elephants to buffaloes, creatures around us that are in danger

Animal conservation in India brings creatures like tigers to mind. But many commonly talked about creatures are in need of public attention as …

Conservationists have a problem with tiger relocation to Satkosia

The reserve’s officials have not been held accountable for the collapse of the tiger population in the park, which has led to translocation;…

Tiger poaching in India has risen by 63% in two years

Despite the government spending Rs 15,000 crore on tiger conservation between 2014 and 2016, poaching cases rose by 63 per cent

Ken-Betwa river link given go-ahead; expert committee yet to submit report

The project would require diversion of 52.58 square kilometers of forest land, including 41.41 square kilometers of Panna Tiger Reserve

60% increase in overall tiger population, but habitat & biodiversity loss threatening Southeast Asian big cats

Countries submit population numbers from 2010-2022 to Global Tiger Recovery Program, CITES

Nepal’s tigers triple: India had and will continue to have a role to play, say experts

Nepal now has 355 tigers, compared to 235 in 2018

Avni’s cubs found safe in Yavatmal

Forest officials are trying to catch them and relocate them

International Tiger Day 2023: Just when and how did today’s big cats evolve

Big cats have been associated with human history since our inception. But where do their origins lie?  

Royal Bengal tiger that stoked panic in Bihar villages caught

The tiger had strayed 130 km from Valmiki Tiger Reserve in villages of East Champaran district, Bihar 

How ‘tiger farms’ have turned a wild animal into a species worth more dead than alive

Tigers in parts of east and south-east Asia can come in bottled form, sold openly in industrial breeding centres as tiger bone wine, a concoction …