KOLKATA: With China observing the year of the Tiger in 2010, conservationists across the globe fear the endangered mammal would be threatened more, as trade in tiger goods is likely to rise considerably. Chinese superstition is one of the primary reasons behind poaching of tigers. There is huge demand for tiger skins, tiger bones, tiger tooth and tiger nails amongst superstitious Chinese. In the Year...
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Bangladesh has one of the world's largest surviving tiger populations (Picture: Zahangir Alom)The Bangladesh government has created its first national plan to conserve the endangered Royal Bengal tiger.The Tiger Action Plan aims to save an estimated 300-500 tigers in the Sundarbans mangrove forest.The area in the south-east of the country has one of the largest remaining Bengal tiger populations.Experts...
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KATMANDU: The world's tiger population is declining fast despite efforts to save them, and new strategies are urgently needed to keep the species from dying out, international wildlife experts said on Tuesday. "We are assembled here to save tigers that are at the verge of extinction,'' Nepal's secretary of forest and soil conservation, Yuvaraj Bhusal, told a conference of tiger experts from 20 countries,...
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PATNA:Dwindling population of tiger across the reserves in India has been a matter ofconcern for wildlife lovers. But reports emanating from Bihar's Valmiki TigerReserve suggest that all is not lost.It pertains to sighting of atiger at Valmikinagar __ Bihar's only tiger reserve. Forest guards and tigertrackers sighted the tiger in compartment no. 49 of Someshwar block of thereserve on Saturday."Though...
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Bhopal, Nov 13 - Madhya Pradesh stands to lose out on crucial tiger conservation funds as the union government has refused to part with the money unless the state signs a tripartite agreement, officials say.It is to be signed by the state, the centre and the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).The state has opposed the agreement, saying it will make directors of its tiger reserves accountable...
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KOLKATA:Sundarban Tigers Reserve officials on Saturday caught a straying tiger atGosaba's Pirkhali-I village in the Sunderbans. The tiger has been kept underobservation and is expected to be released into the wild on Sunday.Villagers tipped off forest officials about the tiger which, theysaid, swam across the river and entered the villages of Sonagaon, Mitrabari andBijoynagar in Bally Island.Villagers...
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rising tiger population in Ranthambore has, of late, given rise to concernsover shrinking space in the national park. Recently, one of the tigers from theforest strayed into Chambal and Banas areas, confirming this trend. Forestersfear that the tiger might have made its way to MadhyaPradesh.Officials of state forest department, though confirmed theinciddent, could not throw light on the age or sex...
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Madhya Pradesh could lose tiger conservation funds < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateMadhya Pradesh stands to lose out on crucial tiger conservation funds as the union government has refused to part with the money unless the state signs a tripartite agreement, officials say.It is to be signed by the state, the centre and the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).The state has opposed the agreement,...
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adult tigress was found dead in the Kanha National Park on Monday by park staff. Forest department officials said that another tiger had killed the tigress. This is the second such incident within a month and a half and 6th in year in Kanha.that the partially eaten body of the tigress, aged about 14 months, was found in the meadow area of Kanha on Monday morning. He said that park staff saw the tiger...
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KATMANDU: The world's tiger populationis declining fast despite efforts to save them, and new strategies are urgentlyneeded to keep the species from dying out, international wildlife experts saidon Tuesday."We are assembled here to save tigers that are at theverge of extinction,'' Nepal's secretary of forest and soil conservation,Yuvaraj Bhusal, told a conference of tiger experts from 20 countries,...
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