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When Tigers Vanish From India's Wildlife Reserves, the Prey and Vegetation Collapse Too

Sariska, 2004: The First Documented CollapseBy 2004, every tiger had been poached out of Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan. What followed was not silence, it was a slow, measurable unravelling. Sambar and chital populations, freed from predator pressure, expanded into areas they had previously avoided. Overgrazing stripped ground cover from…

What India's Cheetah Reintroduction at Kuno National Park Has Taught Science About Rewilding a Predator

What India's Cheetah Reintroduction at Kuno National Park Has Taught Science About Rewilding a Predator

The biology that made this harder than anyone admitted publiclyThe African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is not the same animal as the Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) that once ranged across India. The subspecies diverged genetically tens of thousands of years ago. When the Wildlife Institute of India and the National…

India and Nepal Are Building the World's Largest Transboundary Tiger Conservation Zone in the Terai

India and Nepal Are Building the World's Largest Transboundary Tiger Conservation Zone in the Terai

What the Terai Arc Actually IsThe Terai Arc Landscape is a 49,000-square-kilometre belt of grassland, riverine forest, and sal woodland running along the base of the Himalayas, from India's Uttarakhand in the west through Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, crossing into Nepal's lowland Terai districts and back. It holds eleven protected…

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SIT formed to probe Dudhwa tigress' 'sudden' death; NTCA seeks report

A special investigation team is probing the mysterious death of a tigress in Uttar Pradesh's Dudhwa Tiger Reserve buffer zone. The big cat, suspected of killing two people, was captured and declared fit for release, but suddenly collapsed and died. The National Tiger Conservation Authority has demanded a detailed report,…

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Post-mortem conducted on tiger captured in Kannur

Veterinarians on Friday conducted post-mortem examination on a two-year-old tiger that died shortly after its capture in Kannur. The tiger, which had been elusive for over two weeks, was tranquilised and caught around 3:30 p.m. at Adakkathodu in Kelakam panchayat on Thursday.

Madhya Pradesh notifies 'Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve' as its 7th Tiger Sanctuary

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Government has officially announced the establishment of the "Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve," marking the seventh tiger reserve in the state and 54th in the country.

The Times of India

Kerala’s tiger population on the rise

Kerala’s tiger population has increased to 213 in 2022, from 190 in 2018, according to an estimate released by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).

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Survey finds 306 tigers in T.N. in 2022, a jump from 264 in 2018

Survey finds 306 tigers in T.N. in 2022, a jump from 264 in 2018

As many as 306 tigers were recorded in Tamil Nadu in the nation-wide census by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for the year 2022. This figure is an increase from the 264 big cats found in the 2018 survey.

16 tigers dead in Uttarakhand since January

16 tigers dead in Uttarakhand since January

The Forest Department officials are attributing the deaths to reasons like territorial fights among the big cats. Read more on The Hindu

India's tiger numbers DOUBLE in 50 years after crucial poignant intervention

India's tiger numbers DOUBLE in 50 years after crucial poignant intervention

By 1972, when India’s then-Prime Minister Ms Gandhi made the tiger the national animal in place of the lion, the big cat faced extinction

Rare melanistic tiger found dead in Odisha’s Similipal reserve, lone to house such cats in country

Rare melanistic tiger found dead in Odisha’s Similipal reserve, lone to house such cats in country

BHUBANESWAR: The male melanistic (black stripe) tiger was found dead in Nawna (south) range of Similipal Tiger Reserve, the only habitat in India that has more than 10 melanistic big cats, on Sunday evening.

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