Tigers In India

India sees record 126 tigers deaths in 2021: Why the big cat's future in the country appears shaky

India is home to a third of the global tiger population and the country's success in saving the big cat is crucial to global efforts to protect their numbers

Ahead of All India Tiger Estimation MP conducts two-day training programme for experts

This year, the survey will be carried out for three months from October to December and the estimation will be conducted in three phases

Corbett has most tigers in India; none left in Dampa, Buxa and Palamu reserves, says report

In the state-wise distribution of tigers, Madhya Pradesh had the highest number of the big cats at 526 followed by Karnataka at 524 and 442 in Uttarakhand

India accounts for 70% of world's tigers, says Prakash Javadekar, releases new status report on wild cats

The report compares information gathered during tiger surveys of 2006, 2010 and 2014 with data from the 2018-19 review to estimate population trends, patch colonisation and extinction rate

Even as the return of a tiger to Ajanta after over 50 years shows their resilience, conservation requires trust with local people

With TPWL-T1C1 as tigers return to Ajanta, prioritising conservation over human safety needs trust between the people who want to see these animals protected, and the people who will live with the animals that have been protected.

Wildlife Week 2019: India's tiger census points to an urgent need for peaceful ecosystems where humans, tigers coexist

With 26,838 camera-traps that captured 76,523 tigers in the wild, coverage this census was 275% higher than 2014.

Senthil Kumaran on documenting human-wildlife conflict, and photography as a socio-political tool

Senthil Kumaran is a documentary photographer whose work focuses on social and environmental issues, with an ongoing project documenting the human-wildlife conflict.

How does India’s tiger conservation policy impact the local people and the forest?

PM Modi released tiger census figures last week, that records an increase in tiger numbers from 2014- 2018.

International Tiger Day: Signatories to announce progress on declaration to double population of big cat by 2022, take quiz to know more

International Tiger Day is observed on 29 July as a reminder of the agreement to raise awareness about the decline of the global tiger population, which was signed by countries at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia in 2010.

Maharashtra tiger deaths: Male tiger found dead in Melghat reserve, taking toll of big cats to four in one week

This death of the tiger in Melghat comes within a week of two tigers being found dead in Maharashtra's Umred-Karhandla-Paoni Wildlife Sanctuary in Nagpur.