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| Army to check rhino poaching in Kaziranga |
| Staff Reporter |
| Times of India , Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
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KAZIRANGA: Indian authorities in the northeastern state of Assam have deployed the army at the famed Kaziranga National Park to control a spurt in incidents of rhino slaughtering by organised poaching ...More
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| Nokia ties up with wildlife fund to save tiger |
| Staff Reporter |
| Times of India , Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
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NEW DELHI: Mobile handset maker Nokia has joined hands with wildlife conservation organisation World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-India, to support the tiger conservation initiatives in the country, the ...More
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| Bahuguna demands special policy for Himalayan region |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Pioneer , Sunday, July 27, 2008 |
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Famous environmental activist Sunderlal Bahuguna and Tehri MLA Kishore Upadhyaya submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding a special policy for the Himalayan region that ex ...More
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| UN lets China import African ivory |
| Staff Reporter |
| Times of India , Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
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LONDON: China has been given permission to become a licensed buyer of ivory at a UN (United Nations) meeting in Geneva, provoking widespread condemnation from environmentalists and politicians, who sa ...More
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| Five Asiatic black bear rehabilitated |
| Aarti Dhar |
| Times of India , Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
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NEW DELHI: The Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation (CBRC) has released another batch of five bear (Ursus thibetanus) into the Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh.
The bear, hand-rea ...More
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| Chhattisgarh sets up committee on tiger protection |
| Our Correspondent |
| Times of India , Monday, July 14, 2008 |
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RAIPUR: Concerned over rise in poaching and threat to tigers in Chhattisgarh's forests, the state government has formed a committee under chairmanship of Chief Minister Raman Singh for constant moni ...More
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| Two held for poaching wild pig |
| Ramesh Susarla |
| Times of India , Monday, July 14, 2008 |
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From Vazhikkadavu range in the Nilambur forests
Five kilos of pork and country-made rifle recovered
MALAPPURAM: Forest officers arrested two men for poaching wild pig in the Nilambur forest on Sa ...More
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| Dudhwa rated second best tiger reserve in country |
| Neha Shukla |
| Times of India , Monday, July 14, 2008 |
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LUCKNOW: Dudhwa is one of the best managed tiger reserves in the country. The latest assessment by Project Tiger has placed the reserve on second spot, after Kanha in Madhya Pradesh. The assessment re ...More
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| Dwindling tiger numbers, a cause for concern at Rajaji |
| Prithviraj Singh |
| The Pioneer , Sunday, July 13, 2008 |
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Even as Rajaji National Park celebrates its silver jubilee, tiger population in this wildlife habitat has been dwindling steeply in the last 7-8 years, for reasons yet to be discovered, feel the Rajaj ...More
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| Tigers migrating from Rajaji’s western section |
| Rakesh Lohumi |
| The Indian Express , Saturday, July 12, 2008 |
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Dehradun, August 11: The western section of Rajaji National park has seen a decline in its tiger population over the last three years. According to officials, the number of tigers in this section has ...More
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| ‘Create green belt on Chamundi Hills’ |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Friday, July 11, 2008 |
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Government is planning to take up works at a cost of Rs. 50 crore
MYSORE: Environmentalists in Mysore have urged the Government to be cautious before taking up infrastructure development works, a ...More
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| South China tigers teeter on brink of extinction |
| Staff Reporter |
| Times of India , Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
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YIHUANG, China: Dragging on a cigarette between his wrinkled lips, Hou Fengqi fingered a dusty bamboo bow and rusty iron-tipped arrows, before recounting his days as a "tiger hunting hero" in the rugg ...More
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| Poachers on the prowl, tiger reserves on high alert |
| Neha Sinha |
| The Indian Express , Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
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New Delhi, July 8: Days after the Government’s first-ever translocation programme was launched to introduce the big cats at Sariska, poachers are back at it again—this time at the Jim Corbett Tiger Re ...More
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| Deer skin seized from minister's farmhouse |
| Staff Reporter |
| Times of India , Monday, July 07, 2008 |
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PUNE/SATARA: State forest officials have seized the half-burnt skin, bones and other remains of a chinkara from the farmhouse of state minister for transport and tribal development Dharmarao Baba At ...More
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| Poachers back in action at Mudumalai |
| Staff Reporter |
| Times of India , Sunday, July 06, 2008 |
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UDHAGAMANDALAM: After six years of silence in the Nilgiris forest, poachers have struck again, killing a 12-year-old tusker near Thorapalli, about three km from the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.
“This ...More
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| Carcass of beheaded 'tiger' found |
| Mazhar Ali |
| Times of India , Sunday, July 06, 2008 |
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CHANDRAPUR: A beheaded and skinned carcass of an animal, suspected to be that of a tiger, was found in Sindewahi forest range under North Chandrapur Forest Circle of Maharashtra on Saturday morning. ...More
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| Second tiger to be shifted to Sariska |
| Staff Reporter |
| Times of India , Friday, July 04, 2008 |
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JAIPUR: In a bid to revive the big cat population in the Sariska reserve, one more tiger will soon be airlifted from Ranthambore to the reserve.
Chief Wildlife Conservator of Sariska reserve R N M ...More
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| Climate champion Agastya heads for China |
| Staff Reporter |
| Times of India , Friday, July 04, 2008 |
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MUTHATHI (Karnataka): He is just 17, but tackling climate change and transforming poachers into forest guards to conserve the environment makes more sense to Agastya Muthanna than cramming for his C ...More
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| Nepal's tiger population plummets |
| Staff Reporter |
| Times of India , Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
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KATHMANDU: Hit by rampant poaching and a rocketing trade in organs, the number of tigers is plummeting in Nepal, that once boasted of the third-largest population of the big cats, a government survey ...More
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| ‘Forest Department neglecting wildlife’ |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
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PALAKKAD: The Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) and environmental organisations have accused the Forest Department of neglecting the protection of wildlife.
Naelliampathy Nature Society act ...More
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