Discovery Communications announced a historic partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) through which Discovery will fund and help conserve nearly 1 million acres of protected habitat in India and Bhutan to protect and increase the wild tiger population. “The global movement to protect tigers just got one million acres stronger,” said David Zaslav, President and […]
Bakers Bake Amazing Animal Shaped Cakes To Create Awareness
Bakers in the UK got together for endangered animals by creating what they know best –cakes! The unusual things though about the cakes was that each one represented a species threatened by extinction. Take a look at the fabulous ‘endangered species cakes’. All images courtesy CakesDecor and DailyMail More Related Stories, Tiger Cub Seen At […]
Tiger Numbers on the rise in Andhra Pradesh and Telengana
The newly bifurcated states of Telengana and Andhra Pradesh will soon have about 100 tigers owing to the conservation efforts at the Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve. If the authorities manage to successfully contain poaching in the following years, the tiger population is likely to cross the century mark from an all-time low of 68 in 2014. […]
Save Genetic Diversity to Save Tigers
In a research published today (17 April) by Stanford scholars, scientists have found that it is not just numbers but genetic diversity that will help save the tigers from extinction. Having lost 90 percent of their historical habitat almost half of the 3000 wild tigers in the world today live in India in national parks […]
Madhya Pradesh gears up to Save Tigers in their New Home
The forest department of Madhya Pradesh is hailing the findings of a recent survey by Wildlife Institute of India that suggests that there may be seven tigers in the Indore, Dewas and Barwani ranges. Pepped up with the presence of the wild cat in an area where it was not observed before, the forest department is now planning landscape management strategies that will benefit the tiger.