Chennai: There was nothing alarming about the recent death of tigers – 10 of them had died between August 16 and September 19 – in the Nilgiris if one were to take into account the current population growth and the dispersal dynamics in the landscape, the National Tiger Conservation Authority said in its report. The report released on Friday said …
The environment ministry and the National Tiger Conservation Authority on Monday informed the Supreme Court that a provisional diagnosis of the deaths of eight cheetahs at Kuno National Park “point towards natural causes”. The affidavit submitted that besides the Kuno National Park and its extended landscape of 6800 per sq.km, the NTCA has requested Madhya Pradesh on June 28 to …
It’s a high India would have loved not to end the year on, but 2021 has registered biggest margin of drop in tiger numbers in a decade at more than 120 of the big cats having fallen prey to everything from poachers and accidents to natural causes with man-animal conflict, too, extracting a toll. India now accounts for 75 per …
After a long delay, the Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar released the detailed 656–page report on the All India Tiger Population Estimation, 2018, on the eve of Global Tigers Day. Though the tiger population has increased over the year, the government’s detailed report has flagged several issues which need immediate attention, as these issues have the potential to sour the …
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