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India sees record 126 tigers deaths in 2021: Why the big cat's future in the country appears shaky
Kenneth Kumar Mohanty • 3 years agoIndia 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
• 3 years agoThis 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
• 5 years agoIn 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
Fp Staff • 5 years agoThe 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
Mongabay India • 5 years agoWith 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
Kavyan • 5 years agoWith 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
Aarushi Agrawal • 5 years agoSenthil 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?
Mongabay India • 6 years agoPM 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
Sunild • 6 years agoInternational 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
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThis 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.