The Royal Bengal Tiger has been sighted in 3 new forest regions of Odisha. This was announced by the State Forest and Environment Ministry, Bijayashree Routray. Mr. Routray said that movement of tigers captured by closed-circuit television cameras installed at the Hemgiri forest in Sundargarh and Debrigarh sanctuaries in Sambalpur districts was direct evidence of […]
Life Of A Tiger
BIRTH Newborns tigers are born blind and are completely dependent on their mother. Image via Discover Wildlife GROWING YEARS Fewer than half of the cubs that are born live past two years of age. Image via Softpedia Image via Dailymail AS ADULTS Image via cc/Flickr by stachelbeer
All In An Year’s Work: An Environmental Round Up 2015
“When this flood blocks the road, I am worried more by my soil getting washed, than by getting late, to reach my destination,” wrote Nepalese poet Suman Pokhrel. For India, no words could be truer for the year 2015. If something has blocked the road of India’s savvy future in the last year, it has been the […]
Tigers for Dinner – Book Review
Amrita Sharma reviews for India’s Endangered, Tigers for Dinner by Ruskin Bond. Mehmoud wasn’t just any run-of-the-mill khansama doling out delectable koftas, lamb chops, puddings and milkshakes to the Bond family. He was a Story-Teller Extraordinaire who, thorough his fascinating tales of adventure in the wild, worked his way to the heart of the lonely […]
Wildsense: A Gaming App for Citizen Scientists
This piece of news is particularly an interesting one for wildlife enthusiasts who also love their devices and enjoy playing games on them. There’s a new gaming app called Wildsense for iPad that lets you be a citizen scientist and have some fun. The game loads photos of animals in the wild that are analysed […]
A Dozen Tigers More!
What is better than spotting one tiger cub in the wild? Spotting a dozen! Forest officials of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh say that camera trap results show at least a dozen tiger cubs below the age of two in the core area. If this news is confirmed through further field study, it […]
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 […]
Soon, An ID Card for Every Tiger in India
They are the nation’s pride and now just like the billion plus citizens of India, Indian tigers will get a Unique Identification Number (UID) thanks to a national plan to strengthen their protection measures.
Tigers Making a Comeback
It is a fitting beginning to a new year. Scientists have announced that the global tiger population is slowly and steadily rising thanks to strong government initiatives in particularly three countries – India, Russia and Thailand.
School Children to Get Wildlife Protection Training
Why is the forest important? What can children do to save wild cats like tigers and leopards? How can man-animal conflict be resolved peacefully? These are few of the questions that will be answered by forest department officials as they speak to school children living near the Suhelwa and Katarniaghat sanctuaries in Uttar Pradesh. Both sanctuaries are inhabited by tigers, leopards and other wonderfully creatures of the wild that need constant monitoring and protection.
Long Live Tigers
I wish someone told me, every tiger has nine lives.