Tigers terai.ht

Numbers game

BIG CATS FACE EXTINCTION

BBC does a Columbus

The corporation’s Earth News went to town with its discovery of lost tigers that were never lost

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Protective shell

Tracking Tigers

The pugmark method of counting tigers in the wild is a tedious exercise. But this method really works amidst all modern criticism and technology

Bleak future

PARTNERS IN PERIL·Produced and directed by Jahar Kanungo·30 minutes

States with declining tiger population have highest diversion of forests for mining

Data shows that Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Telangana and Andhra lost forest land to mining during the period their tiger numbers declined

Ustad redux? Ranthambore ‘mankiller’ T-104 could be shifted to a cage in Mukundara

The tiger killed three people in 2019 and is considered ‘a threat to human life’

Briefs

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Bright and black

Female tigers at the Similipal reserve in Odisha are increasingly giving birth to black or melanistic breeds and catching rare worldwide attention

'Frogs are beautiful'

Wildlife filmamker Ajay Bedi talks to Down To Earth about his recent documentary, 'The Secret Life of Frogs' that released commercially recently

Pacman, one of Ranthambore’s most sighted tigers, is dead

Pacman, a five-year-old male, was found dead with grievous wounds caused by what is suspected to be a territorial fight

10 years since St Petersburg Declaration, hopes for doubling tiger numbers dim

Instead one-third of tiger conservation sites in the world are severely at risk of losing their wild tigers

Tigers and tribals: Conservation project displaced 18,493 families in 48 yrs

The displacements happened from critical tiger habitats, according to RTI response accessed by DTE

The more Asians migrate to cities, the more it will help tigers, says study

Researchers from a prominent non-profit feel that Asia's increasing urbanisation and rapid demographic transition could mean that tiger range …

The forgotten tigons and litigons of Alipore Zoo and other hybrids

It is important to know about the lives of hybrids at Alipore and globally, given the baggage hybridisation has had and recent research …

Facebook posts lead to leopard skin seizure, arrests near Similipal

Fifteen leopards have died in Odisha in the last 3 years; 5 were poached

World Crocodile Day: How crocodilians square off against big cats

Here are some remarkable examples of crocodilian predation involving large wild cats based on published literature

Sambhar tragedy: Are birds second class wildlife, ask experts

Not only are bird species not monitored properly but information about instances of their mass death is suppressed, they allege

India Wildlife Week: Odisha’s report card has hardly anything to show

While other states are implementing viable wildlife management plans, the Odisha government is lagging way behind

Bihar plans another tiger reserve in Kaimur

The forests of Kaimur district, which include the Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary, have been earmarked as a second reserve for tigers since the Valmiki …

Amrabad Tiger Reserve: An Eden under threat

The recent in-principle clearance granted for uranium exploration in Telangana’s Amrabad Tiger Reserve, will destroy a landscape rich in …