Climate change is increasing the intensity of wildfires, reducing vegetation and making poor people more reliant on forests, resulting in an increase in conflict between wildlife and humans over habitat and resources, conservationists said on Friday. It said climate change threatens the survival of tigers in the Sunderbans and is one of the major challenges facing the wildlife in the …
The year 2019 has seen the highest number of human fatalities connected to tiger attacks in and around Ranthambore National Park, one of the biggest wildlife sanctuaries and tiger reserves in Northern India. T-104, a four-year-old tiger who had been separated from his mother last year, killed a woman named Munni Devi near Ranthambore in February and a man named …
Human intervention into nature howsoever well-meaning can create problems. Last year, Rajasthan wildlife department shifted two tigers, one male MT-1 in April and one female MT-2 in December into an 80 sq km enclosure in Mashalpura, located at the southern end of Mukundra Tiger Reserve which is the newest tiger sanctuary created in India. Tigers have often been venturing out …
