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LATEST TIGER NEWS. 
9 March 2010. The Economic Times of India reports that camera trapping of the tiger is starting with partial results of the census due by next December. Follow the link below to read the story. 8 March 2010. Tragic news from Ranthambhore that two young male tigers have been lost and probably poisoned-to read more follow the link below to the report in the Hindustan Times. 6 March 2010. Fretting about the last of the world's biggest cats. Follow the link below to a report in the New York Times. 3 March 2010. Every Tiger a Nations Conscience-please follow the link below to a hard hitting and well written article in Hard news-India. 21 February 2010. China-the dark secret of the 'farm' where tigers' bodies are plundered for £185 wine! Follow the link below to read the report in the Mail online. 14 February 2010. The Jakarta Globe report new conservation initiatives meant to help the last of Indonesia's tigers. To read the article follow the link below. 13 February 2010. China considers legalising tiger trade to counter poaching. To read the report in The Hindu please follow the link below. 12 February 2010. Inbreeding threatens the survival of the South China Tiger. To read the article in the English news.Cn please follow the link below. 9 February 2010. China says it has 6,000 captive bred tigers reports The Times of India. Follow the link below to read more. 6 February 2010. Tiger attacks close to Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve. To read the report follow the link below to DNA India. 3 February 2010. The Asian Age report that poachers have found that electocution is the easiest way to kill elephants, tigers and leopards in the wild. For more information follow the link below. 1 February 2010. 63 deer to be released in the Sunderbans to supplement the prey base for tigers. 31 January 2010. China backs down from plan to legalise the tiger trade. To read more follow the link below to the Telegraph report.
27 January 2010. Good news reported by the Press Trust of India that the Adani Company have been denied mining rights near Tadoba tiger reserve. Follow the link below for more information. 23 January 2010. A tragic report in Asiaone News states that villagers have beaten a Bengal Tiger to death. Follow the link below to read the story. 23 January 2010. Two UPA government's high-profile ministers clash over Pench tiger reserve highway. Read more by following the the link below to he report in The Times of India. 19 Janury 2010. Tiger census being conducted in Karnataka. Follow the link below to the report in The Times of India. 15 January 2010. Tiger skin seized in Kerala with 3 persons arrested and seach is on for the hunters. To read more follow the link below to the report by The Wildlife Trust of India. 13 January 2010. India to spend Rs200 crore for tiger conservation at the Sundarbans biosphere in West Bengal. To follow the report in the Sifynews please follow the link below. 12 January 2010. Sariska tiger relocation halted for now. Please follow the link below to The Times of India report. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Sariska-tiger-relocation-halted-for-now/articleshow/5434951.cms 6 January 2010. The tiger is named as the most endangered of the world's major species. Follow the link below to The Press Trust of India report. http://www.ptinews.com/news/452348_-Tigers-most-endangered-of-world-s-major-species- 3 January 2010. Tadoba tiger reserve likely to be expanded reports The Times of India. Please follow link below. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Maharashtra-tiger-reserve-likely-to-be-expanded-/articleshow/5407196.cms
2 January 2010. Republica reports that Nepal and China are to ink in a Memorandum of Understanding on trafficking in tiger parts. See link below http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=13561
28 December 2009. The Tiger temple sham-leading Danish tour operator boycotts well known Thai temple tourist attraction. Please follow link below to ScandAsia report. http://www.scandasia.com/viewNews.php?coun_code=dk&news_id=4474 25 December 2009. MadhyaPradesh's tiger breeding plans hit a snag. Why not release the young male tiger at Bhopal zoo to Panna which in all probability would not show the same 'homing' instincts as the tiger brought from Pench. See the 'News' section of this website for more information on this tiger and follow the link below to The Times of India story.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Madhya-Pradeshs-tiger-breeding-plans-hit-a-snag/articleshow/5378419.cms 19 December 2009. Chinese Year of the Tiger threatens India's big cats reports 'The Age'. See link below. http://www.theage.com.au/world/chinese-year-of-tiger-threatens-indias-big-cats-20091218-l5t9.html 14 December 2009. New conservation measures for protection of tigers reported by the Press Information Bureau of the Government of India. http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=55768 12 December 2009. Dharmendra Khandal of Ranthabhore's Tiger Watch writes on the destruction of a crucial wildlife corridor in Ranthambhore tiger reserve due to road construction across the river Banas. The Ranthambhore tiger reserve, spread over an area of 1330 square kilometers, comprises of three large protected areas besides a few smaller ones. These are the Keladevi sanctuary (about 600 square kilometers) in the northern most end of the reserve, the Ranthambhore national park in the middle of the reserve and the Sawai Mansingh sanctuary at the southern end of the reserve. Tigers are mostly restricted to the Ranthambhore national park but the surplus population of tigers in the national park; migrate to the Keladevi sanctuary and the Sawai Mansingh sanctuary. The area between these three large protected areas is a very important migration corridor for all kinds of wildlife especially for tigers. There is a state highway between the Ranthambhore national park and the Sawai Mansingh sanctuary and this causes a lot of disturbance to the unrestricted movement of wildlife between these two large protected areas. The river Banas flows between the Keladevi sanctuary and the Ranthambhore national park. This river has been heavily dammed and presently it is a wide expanse of sand with a small perennial stream running through. Migratory birds arrive every on this river bed every season and at nights large numbers of animals like wild boars, spotted and sambar deer, nilgai and even wolves are spotted here. During the day there is some human disturbance in the area because of small-scale agriculture and a lot of mining for sand, however in the nights it is totally undisturbed. In this area a huge pastureland of Bhavpur exists. As such this river is a crucial corridor for migration of wildlife between the Keladevi sanctuary and the Ranthambhore national park, besides being a very important source of water for wildlife. Unfortunately this crucial corridor is soon going to be totally destroyed because of construction of a road between Sawata to Hadoti. To make this road two large land bridges will be constructed and in the coming times this development will lead to heavy traffic in the region which will destroy this crucial wildlife corridor. This Rupees 6.5 crore road construction project has unfortunately been given all the clearances by the forest department even though it would effectively destroy half of the Ranthambhore tiger reserve. This road construction has to be stopped immediately before it effectively destroys the Ranthambhore tiger reserve. Please email and express your concern to The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Rajastham Mr Ashok Gehlot:- cm-rj@nic.in. Also email The Minister of Environment and Forests Mr Jairam Ramesh:- envisect@nic.in 10 December 2009. Tigers endangered in half of India's reserves reports Reuters India. See link below. http://in.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idINTRE5B81OX20091209?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
10 December 2009. Ban on mining a boon for a tiger reserve reports The Times of India. See link below. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Ban-on-mining-a-boon-for-tiger-reserve/articleshow/5320561.cms 9 December 2009. The Times of India report that a tourism lobby are holding up tiger relocation. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Tourism-lobby-hold-up-tiger-relocation/articleshow/5316655.cms# Bandhavgarh National Park - August 2009 Last week saw the sad demise of the Bamera tigress caused possibly by retaliatory poisoning. This comparatively young tigress was the mother of three cubs aged about five months old - these are now being cared for and kept in a large compound at Bandhavgarh. We must hope that the youngsters will survive and eventually be released back into the forest. I was particularly saddened by the death of this tigress as I have come to know her seeing her on a number of occasions in past years. She was one of four siblings from the previous litter of the Chakradhara tigress. Bandhavgarh May 2009 With great sadness I have just been advised that a second tiger has died at Bandhavgarh within a space of three weeks. The tigress that has died is known as the 'Vanvaye' tigress also locally known as 'Reshma'. She leaves behind three cubs that are now being cared for at Bandhavgarh by the park authorities. The 'Vanvaye' tigress was the daughter of the well known and beloved tigress of Bandhavgarh known as 'Sita'. From the reports that I have received the most likely cause of death was by poisoning. This tigress that had successfully brought a number of cubs during her lifetime will be greatly missed. Bandhavgarh April 2009 I have received a number of sad reports that on the 20 April one of the four cubs belonging to the Chakradhara tigress had died. The tigress had left her cubs in the meadow while she went to hunt. Unfortunately one of the cubs left the meadow and went under two of the jeeps that were parked on the track nearby. The cub subsequently returned to the forest but appeared injured and limping. Three days later and in the same meadow where the cub had run his young body was sadly discovered. The tigress that is obviously distaught from loosing her cub continues to feed and care for her three remaining cubs. TRAGIC NEWS FROM BANDHAVGARH-December 2008  I received disturbing news from Bandhavgarh last week that a herdsman tending his cows had been killed and partly eaten by a young male tiger in the buffer zone of the reserve. My sympathy goes to the family of the gentleman who lost his life in this tragic set of circumstances. However I also feel very sad for the young tiger that was known locally as Siddhababa/Chorbera sub-adult male, who in the Magadhi range on the 8 December was tranquilised, captured and taken to Bhopal zoo. Obviously a tiger cannot be allowed to remain in an area of the park where it is likely to cause human/tiger conflict, but it concerns me that a young tiger that was born and accustomed to roaming freely in the forest of Bandhavgarh now finds himself caged in a zoo. Surely an alternative must be found for a problem tiger rather than re-locating a wild animal to a caged situation in a zoo. Perhaps in this difficult set of circumstances, the young tiger could not only have been tranquilised but in addition, radio collared and finally moved to a soft release area deep in the forest where his movements could have been safely monitored. It is tragic that this feisty young tiger will no longer be seen roaming the forests of Bandhavgarh where over the past two years I and many other visitors to the park have spent hours photographing him together with his sister and mother. The photograph above is one of the last images that I took in October 2007.
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