Bhopal national park may get two white tigers

September 24th, 2009 BHOPAL - Two tigresses at the Panna National Park in Madhya Pradesh will soon have male company. This will be the third Royal Bengal tiger to be relocated to the sanctuary, which once boasted of at least 30 of the big cats but lost them all.

September 18th, 2009 BHOPAL - One more tigress was found dead at the Kanha National Park in Madhya Pradesh, an official said Friday. The partially eaten body of the tigress was found in the Kisli Range of the park Thursday.

July 22nd, 2009 BHOPAL - As the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century passed through India on Wednesday, wildlife officials of a zoological park in Bhopal said they witnessed a change in the behaviour of zoo tigers. Wildlife officials at the Van Vihar National Park, who for the past seven days were keeping a close watch on the animals to analyse the impact of eclipse on them, said that during the eclipse period, the tigers behaved differently.

July 17th, 2009 BHOPAL - The Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal has commissioned a unique study to know the changes in behaviour of animals caused by solar eclipse. The first total solar eclipse of 21st century will be visible in India on July 22.

July 12th, 2009 BHOPAL - Officials at the Van Vihar National Park, the zoological gardens in Bhopal are a delighted lot since a little hyena cub has been brought here from the jungles. The little female cub has become a cynosure of all eyes here.

July 5th, 2009 BHOPAL - The Madhya Pradesh Congress Sunday said it will take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the issues of missing tigers in Panna National Park, the murder of a legislator and the power and water shortages during the assembly session that begins Monday. "Besides the ever worsening law and order, issues like power shortage, hike in power tariff, unannounced power cut for hours together, non-supply of potable water, murders due to conflicts over water, shortage of fertilizers and hybrid seeds and their black-marketing will also be raised in the house," Leader of Opposition Jamuna Devi told IANS.

June 17th, 2009 BHOPAL - Piqued over the vanishing tigers in the state, the Madhya Pradesh government has constituted an experts committee to find out the reasons behind the declining number of tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve, officials said Wednesday. In April this year, a central government team led by former National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) chief P.K.

June 4th, 2009 BHOPAL - A 16-year-old leopard, Sheru, died at the Van Vihar National Park here Thursday, the second death of a big cat in as many days, a wildlife official said. "Sheru was brought from the wild in Seoni in 2001 (and) was well till Wednesday.

June 4th, 2009 BHOPAL - A three-year old tigress died at Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal. According to the veterinarian attached to the zoo, the tigress, 'Era' died late on Tuesday night when the intended vomit wrongly entered the lungs through the wind gullet and aggravated the lungs.

May 6th, 2009 BHOPAL - Private telecom player Tata Indicom has adopted a white tiger and a panther at the Van Vihar National Park here under the park's 'Adopt an Animal Scheme', park officials said Wednesday. 'Earlier, the company had adopted a lion at the park.

May 6th, 2009 BHOPAL - Tata Indicom has adopted a white tiger, an inhabitant of the Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal. Ten-year-old Bhagat was adopted under the animal adoption project run by the park, on an annual basis by Indicom.

April 28th, 2009 BHOPAL - A pair of white tigers have been transported to the Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal.ften termed as the pride of Bhopal, Van Vihar is home to a number of animals, including the white tiger, the panther and the lion. The tigers have come from the Nandankanan National Park of Orissa under an Animal Exchange Programme of Central Zoo Authority (CZA).

April 16th, 2009 BHOPAL - A tiger cub succumbed to injuries here after being hurt by an adult tiger. Eleven months old Pancham was brought in an injured condition to Bhopal's Van Vihar National Park on April 4.

January 30th, 2009 BHOPAL - A sloth bear that escaped from the Van Vihar National Park here Friday has forest officials in a tizzy as the animal could not be traced despite a nightlong search. The bear was lodged at the park's Bear Rescue Centre run by Wildlife SOS, an NGO, under an agreement with the forest department.

January 18th, 2009 BHOPAL - A four-year-old male tiger was killed in a turf war with another tiger in Madhya Pradesh's Kanha National Park, officials said Monday. The tiger's body, with deep bruises, was found at the Kisla range of the park.