Panna tigresses to get male companion in a fortnightOctober 11th, 2009 BHOPAL - Lonely times are over for the two tigresses of Panna Tiger Reserve. A suitable match has been found and the male tiger will be shifted to the reserve anytime within a fortnight, forest officials said.
Scouting for male company for Panna's tigresses!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.
India fails to make headway with China on saving tigersSeptember 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Recent talks between India and China on saving the critically endangered tiger were "not a great success", Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh admitted here Thursday. The talks were held during the minister's recent visit to Beijing.
India-Nepal land dispute threatens tiger reserveAugust 5th, 2009 SUSTA - The presence of illegal settlers is threatening wildlife in the Susta region of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve as forest staff don't patrol the area because of a territorial dispute between India and Nepal, say officials and conservationists. "The (Susta) area is actively used by criminals for timber and cane smuggling; wildlife poaching takes place across the Madanpur range.
Maoist violence prevents tiger count in ChhattisgarhJuly 29th, 2009 RAIPUR - Maoist violence in Bastar region has prevented the Chhattisgarh government from carrying out a count of tigers, the state assembly was informed Wednesday. Forest Minister Vikram Usendi told the assembly in a written reply that the count of tigers of the Indravati tiger project had not been undertaken for several years as the area is dominated by Maoists rebels.
After jumbos, tigers bare fangs between India, NepalJuly 16th, 2009 KATHMANDU - After marauding elephant herds created bad blood between Nepal's border villages and India, now big cats are threatening to strain ties between the two neighbours. Nepal's lawmakers are concerned about reports that India's Uttar Pradesh state, which borders part of Nepal in the south, is planning a tiger reserve along the open border.
There is no tiger in Panna, admits governmentJuly 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - "Tigers have become locally extinct in Panna largely due to poaching," the government admitted Monday, adding that the protected forest in Madhya Pradesh now has only two tigresses translocated there. The Madhya Pradesh government had reported in 2001-02 that there were 31 tigers in Panna, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh informed the Rajya Sabha in response to a question.
Madhya Pradesh's missing tigers: Probe panel to begin work ThursdayJune 30th, 2009 BHOPAL - A panel set up by the Madhya Pradesh government to probe how tigers have disappeared from the Panna Tiger Reserve will begin its work Thursday, officials said. The central government had earlier criticised the state government for failing to pay heed to the warnings about the tigers' disappearance from Panna.
Betla National Park bars visitors for animals' privacyJune 30th, 2009 RANCHI - Wild animals too need privacy for mating. Recognising this, the Jharkhand forest department has decided to close the Betla National Park to tourists during the mating season July 1-Sep 30 so the animals have congenial atmosphere.
Tamil Tigers won't be allowed to regroup: ArmyJune 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan Army's spokesman, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, has said that the government and the defence brass is determined not to allow the rebel Tamil Tigers to regroup. Brigadier Nanayakkara was quoted by the Sri FM radio station that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) would not be left any room by the authorities to regroup in order to revert to their campaign for a separate state.
Accountability to be fixed for inflated Panna tiger numbersJune 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - The central government will fix accountability for the exaggerated projection of the tiger population in Madhya Pradesh's Panna forest reserve, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Wednesday. The central government will also take follow-up action on the disappearance of the big cats from the sanctuary with an investigation team fixing the blame on poachers.
Committee to probe vanishing tigers in Madhya PradeshJune 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.
Tiger numbers drop in Bihar reserve, only 13 leftJune 11th, 2009 PATNA - Here is some bad news for wildlife lovers. Bihar's Valmiki National Park, the state's sole tiger reserve, has just 13 tigers left, down from the 56 big cats it had seven years ago, a survey said.
Prabhakaran's parents in government custodyMay 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - The parents of the now dead Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran are in the "protective custody" of the Sri Lankan government, a media report said Thursday. Thiruvenkatam Velupillai (76) and his wife Parvathi (71) surrendered to the army several days ago, The Island newspaper quoted a government official as saying.
IDPs identifying LTTE cadres in Lanka refugee camps: ArmyMay 25th, 2009 COLOMBO - The spokesman of the Sri Lankan Army, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, on Monday said that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in welfare camps are identifying several former Tigers hiding among them and handing them over to the Army. The Colombo Times quoted Brigadier Nanayakkara as saying that former Tigers have been taken in for questioning about the roles they played in the Tiger movement.
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