North Bengal wildlife on high alert after heavy rains, Buxa to have new tigress
Forest officials have been directed to keep Quick Response Teams (QRTs) ready and set up control rooms to monitor the situation continuously.
Forest officials have been directed to keep Quick Response Teams (QRTs) ready and set up control rooms to monitor the situation continuously.
A radio-collared four-year-old tigress was allegedly killed by poachers by poisoning, and the feline’s body was recovered from a pit in the Satpura Tiger Reserve (STR) of Madhya Pradesh.
The chosen tigress PN-224 was tranquilised in Pench forest and put into the transit cage to carry to the airstrip around 05:30am for flying to Jaipur by an IAF MI-17 chopper.
The last four or five months have witnessed unpredictable human-tiger conflicts in Karnataka.
The tigress' statue will measure 9 feet in length, 4 feet in width, and 4 feet in height, resembling a tiger roaming in the wild. Expected to weigh about 7 tonnes, it is estimated to cost around Rs 7 lakh and is likely to be completed by the end of March.
The book, with photos clicked over eight years, features over 500 meticulously curated images that narrate the journey of the family of the legendary tigress Machli — her daughter Krishna, granddaughter Arrowhead, great-granddaughter Riddhi and Riddhi's cubs.
The two-year-old tigress, who was rescued from the boundary wall of a farmhouse in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit and released in the wild, returned to the urban area and was trapped in a forest department cage two days ago.
According to them HC order on December 28, pertaining to a tigress killing three women in Kumaon region will set a new precedent in bigcat protection and enforcement of wildife laws.
In a case of self-mutilation, a white tigress named Indra at the Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Zoological Garden in Lucknow…
An adult tigress was reported dead at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Monday.
