DTE Coverage: International Tiger Day 2023

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

To track a tigress: How officials in Chhattisgarh’s Achanakmar are trying to recover big cat numbers

Recent NTCA report found Chhattisgarh had only 17 tigers compared to 46 in 2014  

Found family: Tigress adopts sister’s orphaned cubs at Sanjay National Park

Cubs’ biological mother died after she was hit by train in March 2022; foster mother with kids took them under wing, taught them how to …

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, …

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

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?  

Bihar to get its second tiger reserve in Kaimur soon

Officials have been working towards obtaining the National Tiger Reserve Conservation Authority’s approval for declaring Kaimur Wildlife …

Infighting and infections led to 4 tigers’ deaths in Dudhwa in two months, finds autopsy

Investigation reveals lapses such as shortage of staff and lack of patrolling, leading to poor monitoring

Project Tiger merges with Project Elephant — but questions on fund split unanswered

Amalgamation will squeeze already dwindling fund flow, say experts; similar plan was rolled back in 2011 after experts raised concerns

76 years of environmentalism

The most important gain of India’s environmental movement is the voice it has given to its citizens. This is the soul of the movement

We need conservation frameworks that empower, incorporate forest dwelling communities

The history of Project Tiger, which completed 50 years this year, reveals systemic exclusion of oppressed caste forest-dwelling communities

International Tiger Day 2023: Yes, tigers did roam Sindh and Bahawalpur once

The tiger is of course extinct in Pakistan but it should be a sobering thought that it has only become so within the last 100 years

World Elephant Day 2023: Merger of its Project with that of the tiger seems to be a matter of administrative convenience

Elephants’ management should progress towards achieving clearly outlined long term aims and goals

Climate action worst-performing area for Indian tiger reserves, confirms Centre’s report

Overall management performance improved compared to last analysis but key parameters remain backbenchers  

Over 100 armed police deployed in Similipal National Park as forest staff go on strike

Two forest officers have been killed in a month allegedly by poachers, protesting forest staff raise demands

Top 10 stories of the week that was (July 29-August 4)

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from the week just gone by  

World Environment Day 2023: This project in south India is all about bridging art, conservation and empowerment

Adivasis make life-sized elephants from lantana; this provides them with employment besides decreasing lantana in the forest and raises awareness …

Odisha: Gharial hatchlings spotted three years in a row, 35 seen this time

Critically endangered reptile hatchlings seen in Mahanadi river’s Satkosia gorge, a Ramsar site

क्या मिसाल बन सकता है कॉर्बेट टाइगर रिजर्व में अवैध रूप से पेड़ काटने का मामला?

नैनीताल हाईकोर्ट ने जिम कॉर्बेट टाइगर रिजर्व में 6000 से ज�…

Kuno needs at least 50 cheetahs before wild cat population stabilises, expert tells central panel

More deaths of wild cats likely before year end; innovative actions to manage radio collar issues needed

Odisha home to 30 tigers, 8 cubs, shows state census; 10 more than last NTCA count

National census report of 2022 put the tiger population at 20 in Odisha

SC raps ex-Uttarakhand forest minister for illegal construction, tree felling in Jim Corbett tiger reserve

Directs formation of committee to consider and recommend creating tiger safaris in buffer areas

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 2, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Departure from the goddess: Sunderbans’ women & Bonbibi suffer the worst of climate crisis

Women live precarious lives in the cyclone-ravaged delta, as people slowly disconnect from Bonbibi worship & its principles of ecosystem …

International Big Cat Alliance headquarters will be in India; Centre allocates Rs 150 crore

The grouping’s structure will consist of an Assembly of Members, Standing Committee and a Secretariat; its statute has been drafted …