Earth Day 2024: Bhutan will host global meet today to mobilise finance for tiger conservation across Asia

World needs to invest $1 billion over next decade to conserve tigers and their habitats across the continent  

Panthera Tigris: The puzzle that is tiger taxonomy

The jury is still out on how many types of tiger are found across Asia

India lost 204 tigers in 2023, most of them in Maharashtra: WPSI

India’s tiger population increased by 200 from 2018 to 2022, according to new figures released this year

Avni’s cubs found safe in Yavatmal

Forest officials are trying to catch them and relocate them

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

क्या भारत में चीन से आए थे बाघ?

अध्ययन बताते हैं कि बाघ 12,000 साल पहले दक्षिण चीन से आए और भारत में फैल गए

साल 2023 में 204 बाघों की मौत, सबसे ज्यादा महाराष्ट्र में मरे: रिपोर्ट

प्राकृतिक या अन्य कारणों से सबसे अधिक बाघ मारे गए, जबकि शिकारियों ने 55 बाघों की जान ले ली

The sexual world of the tiger has been invisible to the world: Valmik Thapar

Down To Earth talks to veteran conservationist Valmik Thapar about his book 'The sex life of tigers', the cat’s mating rituals and why his …

3 tiger cubs mowed by train in Vidarbha forest

The bodies were discovered on Thursday morning; the mother is suspected to be in the vicinity

‘Russia will do its best to protect the Amur tiger’

Sergey Aramilev is the Deputy Director of the Vladivostok-based Amur Tiger Centre. He is in Delhi to attend the third Asia Ministerial Conference …

DTE Coverage: International Tiger Day 2023

DTE puts together new analysis and insights on the world's biggest and most charismatic cat

The catch in conservation

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

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 …

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

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 &…

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?  

A tigress entered Almora from Corbett and was shot; Where is the accountability?

There is no vision to tackle incidents and situations of this sort in India; the country does not have infrastructure because political …

50 years of Project Tiger: Half a century on, conservation has to move on beyond band-aid mode, says Mahesh Rangarajan

Down To Earth speaks to Mahesh Rangarajan, professor of history and environmental studies at Ashoka University in Haryana, for an appraisal of …

International Tiger Day 2023: Panthera study finds Bangladesh ‘unexpectedly’ driving poaching for tiger parts

Wealthy Bangladeshi citizens seek tiger parts for medicinal, spiritual and ornamental purposes, including tiger bones, canines, meat, milk, …

‘Molecular data and fossils are the gold standard for research on the tiger’s origins’

Down To Earth speaks to Samrat Mondol, associate professor at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, to know more about the origins of the tiger

Bright spots in backyard: Now India’s neighbours do their bit to up tiger count

India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal hold 76% of world’s tigers, says new IUCN report

When exactly did the tiger colonise the Indian subcontinent?

Down To Earth popped the question to geneticists, historians and experts on the cat superstar. Here is what we were able to deduce

‘Hong Kong’s lost tigers show us a species once gone, cannot return’

Down To Earth speaks to journalist John Saeki about his upcoming book on the lost tigers of Hong Kong

‘Wild tigers could be back in Kazakhstan by 2026’

Igor Chestin is the head of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s Russia chapter. He is in Delhi to attend the third Asia Ministerial …