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Caught on cam: Tiger stays put in Lucknow’s Rehmankheda

DFO says a team from the Kanpur Zoo has come prepared with nets and other gadgets to rescue the tiger.

The tiger was near the control room in Rehmankheda when it was caught on camera on Friday early morning, the DFO of Awadh range said. (Sourced)

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Updated on Dec 21, 2024 07:52 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Lucknow

Leopard sighting in Sukhna sanctuary brings cheer to Chandigarh wildlife dept

Before this, a leopard was last captured on camera in Chandigarh in April 2021, near a water body in Kansal forests in Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary

The leopard was spotted in camera trap in the sanctuary’s Kansal area on November 17, a first in over three years. (Source: Chandigarh department of forests and wildlife)

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Updated on Nov 20, 2024 08:14 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Tigress gives birth to 3 cubs; number of big cats at Sariska rises to 43

Officials said two tigresses had given birth to four cubs each for the first time since tiger reintroduction in 2008, signalling a significant conservation success

The Sariska Tiger Reserve now has 18 cubs. (X)

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Published on Jun 11, 2024 03:45 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Rajasthan: Tigress spotted with three cubs in Ramgarh Visdhari Reserve

Ramgarh Vishadhari Sanctuary in Rajasthan’s Bundi was approved as the fourth tiger reserve in the state by the ministry of environment, forest and climate change in July 2022

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Updated on Jul 16, 2023 06:42 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Snow leopards caught on camera in rare sighting at J&K’s Kishtwar National Park

Expressing his joy over the sighting, wildlife officials said it came as an affirmation of the effectiveness of the Kishtwar National Park’s conservation strategies

A snow leopard roaming around the Kishtwar National Park, in Jammu and Kashmir. (HT Photo)

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Updated on May 18, 2023 03:03 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jammu

Leopard dies in train collision in Yeoor forest

The findings have suggested mechanical trauma from the collision, which dislocated both the hind legs and the left foreleg, resulting in severe blood loss and subsequent hypovolemic shock. The animal -- officially recognised as leopard C-45 -- was estimated to be around three to four years old, and was last seen on a camera trap near Vihar Chowky, on January 20, 2022

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Updated on Apr 22, 2023 12:45 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Tigress spotted with her cubs in Rajasthan’s Dholpur: Officials

Dholpur Tiger Reserve (DTR) will be the state’s fifth and country’s 53rd tiger reserve after approval from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)

Tigress T-117 was spotted with three cubs in a camera trap (HT Photo/Sourced)

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Updated on Apr 15, 2023 04:57 PM IST

BySachin Saini

Regular sightings indicate rise in number of snow leopards in HP

Census of the animals by the wildlife wing of the forest department and the Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysuru, has stalled because of the Covid-19 pandemic

According to the census being conducted by the wildlife wing of the forest department and the Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysuru, 52 snow leopards have been identified in 10 remote sites in Lahaul, Spiti, Chamba and Kinnaur .(Photo: Himachal Forest Dept (Files))

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Updated on Nov 22, 2020 06:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Shimla | ByGaurav Bisht, Shimla

HT Editorial| Goa’s tiger tragedy was avoidable. Learn from it

India’s tiger population has increased. But safety remains a concern

The last tiger census report, released in July 2019, showed 2,967 tigers, up by a third when compared with the 2014 numbers(ANI)

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Published on Jan 09, 2020 08:15 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

It’s time to build on the success of our tiger conservation efforts

At the launch of the 2018 census report, PM Modi said two things: First, it is possible strike a balance between development and conservation, and, second, India will build more homes for citizens, and at the same time “create quality habitats for animals”. Doing both these things in a country hungry for development will not be an easy task. But, hopefully, the PM will keep his word.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released the All India Tiger Estimation Report 2018, and said India has emerged as of one of the biggest and safest habitats for big cats in the world. According to the report, the tiger population has grown from 2,226 in 2014 to 2,967 in 2018.(ANI Photo)

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Published on Jul 29, 2019 07:33 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Tiger spotted in Kedarnath at 3,400m altitude

The sighting of the tiger at this unusual height indicated that the big cat was changing its habitat, said experts.

The present spotting of tiger at 3,400m is likely to be the highest in the country.(Photo: Special arrangement)

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Updated on Jun 27, 2019 07:52 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Dehradun | BySuparna Roy

Waterhole census: Should Mumbai worry about the health of its forest?

Is the waterhole census report worrying? Should Mumbai be worried about the decline in the number of animals reported in its forest?

The animals counted by the forest officials and volunteers included leopard, spotted deer, monkey, boar and peacock among others.(HT FILE)

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Published on May 26, 2019 11:41 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManoj R Nair, Mumbai

Tiger census in PTR: Field survey complete, numbers to be declared in May

Almost two months after it began, the field survey for the tiger census in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) was completed by forest officials. The exercise primarily included collection of pictures of big cats from camera traps.

Located near the Indo-Nepal border in Pilibhit district, PTR is one of the newest tiger reserves in the country.(Representative image)

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Published on Mar 13, 2019 01:16 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | ByChandan Kumar, Lucknow

Poaching at National Park in Mumbai: Accused confesses to hunting birds

Bhowar was produced before a Thane court on Tuesday and remanded to the forest department’s custody till January 17

SNGP officials were able to identity the accused, Sushant Dashrath Bhowar, based on the camera trap footage.(HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Jan 16, 2019 01:08 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByBadri Chatterjee, Mumbai

Leopard cub survives Ahmednagar fire, brought to Mumbai’s SGNP

The incident, which took place near Vanjarvadi village in Nevasa taluk, killed two of the cub’s siblings, both female. The male cub’s whiskers were scorched in the fire.

The leopard cub, weighing 2.4kg, lost two of his siblings in the Ahmednagar fire. He was brought to Mumbai after his mother refused to take him back.(HT Photo)

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Published on Dec 21, 2018 02:49 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mumbai | ByBadri Chatterjee, Mumbai

Camera traps capture tigers at 3,630 metres in Arunachal’s Dibang Valley

One of the 108 camera traps deployed in and around the protected area for the study captured a tiger wading through thick snow in January 2017. Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary (DWS) is not a designated tiger reserve and is the highest site for the 2018 tiger census.

Researchers have found a promising tiger population in the upper reaches of Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh.

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Updated on Nov 30, 2018 01:43 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Guwahati | BySadiq Naqvi

Cubs of slain tigress Avni spotted, to be rescued soon

A day after Union minister Maneka Gandhi said the Maharashtra forest department had done nothing to rescue the two cubs of slain tigress Avni, a forest patrol said it spotted two 10-month-old cubs in Vihirgaon range of the Pandharkawada forest area in Yavatmal on Thursday morning.

Avni was killed by hunter Asghar Ali Khan on November 2.(AFP/File Photo)

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Published on Nov 15, 2018 11:18 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mumbai | ByBadri Chatterjee

Avni killing: Most allegations are baseless, says forest department

In an interview to Hindustan Times, principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) AK Misra spoke about the controversy surrounding the shooting of tigress T-1

Principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife), AK Misra , said it is up to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the state government committees to investigate and find out whether there were any violations or lapses in Avni’s killing(HT)

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Published on Nov 10, 2018 12:40 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByBadri Chatterjee, Mumbai

Maharashtra tigress death: Cubs track Avni’s scent, pug marks at site of shooting

As a row rages over the killing of the alleged man-eater tigress T-1, or Avni, the forest department said it spotted pug marks of her two 10-month old cubs late on Monday, at the spot where Avni was shot.

A cub’s pug mark at the site of the shooting.

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Published on Nov 07, 2018 12:44 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByBadri Chatterjee, Mumbai

Odisha poaching case: Carcass found was of Royal Bengal tiger

Following the arrest of a gang of poachers a day earlier, Odisha forest officials confirmed on Sunday that the animal carcass they discovered from a pit near the Debrigarh wildlife sanctuary is that of a Royal Bengal tiger.

About two months ago, the Odisha forest department had confirmed the presence of a Royal Bengal tiger in Debrigarh with the help of camera traps installed at different locations.(Picture for representation)

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Published on Nov 05, 2018 07:56 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | ByDebabrata Mohanty

Search continues in Ramnagar forests to find injured tigress

Intensive search and patrolling is continuing in the Ramnagar forest division for past three days to find an injured tigress that was spotted in the camera traps a few days ago

The tigress was seen on cameras trap with injuries on her nose and ear, which seemed to have occurred in a territorial fight, said Neha Verma, DFO, Ramnagar(HT File)

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Updated on Jul 01, 2018 10:14 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Haldwani | ByAbhinav Madhwal

Speeding train kills elephant in Rajaji Tiger Reserve

A female elephant was killed after being run over by a speeding train in Rajaji Tiger Reserve on Tuesday, a forest official said

Injured elephant being treated by wildlife experts in Haridwar. The animal later succumbed to injuries on Tuesday.(Rameshwar Gaur /HT)

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Published on Jun 26, 2018 09:38 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Haridwar | BySandeep Rawat

20-member forest team on 24X7 duty to trap ‘elusive man-eater’ of Rajaji

17 people have been killed in leopard attacks in the Raiwala stretch since 2014

RTR team members deployed for spotting the ‘man-eater leopard ‘.(HT Photo)

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Updated on May 20, 2018 10:31 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Dehradun | ByAnupam Trivedi

In search of elusive high-altitude tigers, India, Nepal and Bhutan fall back upon camera traps

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will conduct the project in the three countries, with the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) and Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) playing a crucial role in synchronising the programme.

A tiger that was trapped by a camera in Askot Wildlife Sanctuary at an altitude of 12,000 ft in Uttarakhand in 2016.(HT File)

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Updated on Apr 27, 2018 09:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNihi Sharma

Sariska seeks WII assistance on missing tiger

It’s been over one and half months but there is no sign of the missing Sariska tigress ST-5, besides the on and off radio signals from her collar.

The Sariska tiger, ST-5 went missing since more than a month and half from the reserve in Rajasthan.(File Photo/HT.)

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Updated on Apr 11, 2018 10:05 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jaipur | ByHT Correspondent

A tiger is stalking villages of Jhargram, and it’s all anyone can talk about

A month after it was first caught on camera, the big cat is still all anyone can talk about in Jhargram, West Bengal. There’s impatience and fear, conspiracy theories (‘there is no tiger’) and heated debates at chai shops over the best way to catch it.

In the last week of February, cattle began to go missing on the edges of the Lalgarh forest. ‘We thought it was hyenas,’ says farmer Bangeshwar Mahato. On March 2, camera trap footage confirmed it was an adult Royal Bengal tiger - the first tiger sighting ever recorded in the region.

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Updated on Apr 02, 2018 01:56 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByDipanjan Sinha

On tiger hunt, 2 Bengal forest guards suffocate to death inside special vehicle

Fumes from a generator used to power lights and other equipment overcame the two as they kept the vehicle’s windows closed, forest department staff said.

The special vehicle, named Airavata, in which the two guards were found.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 13, 2018 09:44 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByKoushik Dutta

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DFO says a team from the Kanpur Zoo has come prepared with nets and other gadgets to rescue the tiger.

Before this, a leopard was last captured on camera in Chandigarh in April 2021, near a water body in Kansal forests in Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary

Officials said two tigresses had given birth to four cubs each for the first time since tiger reintroduction in 2008, signalling a significant conservation success

Ramgarh Vishadhari Sanctuary in Rajasthan’s Bundi was approved as the fourth tiger reserve in the state by the ministry of environment, forest and climate change in July 2022

Expressing his joy over the sighting, wildlife officials said it came as an affirmation of the effectiveness of the Kishtwar National Park’s conservation strategies

Dholpur Tiger Reserve (DTR) will be the state’s fifth and country’s 53rd tiger reserve after approval from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)

Census of the animals by the wildlife wing of the forest department and the Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysuru, has stalled because of the Covid-19 pandemic

India’s tiger population has increased. But safety remains a concern

The sighting of the tiger at this unusual height indicated that the big cat was changing its habitat, said experts.

Is the waterhole census report worrying? Should Mumbai be worried about the decline in the number of animals reported in its forest?

Almost two months after it began, the field survey for the tiger census in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) was completed by forest officials. The exercise primarily included collection of pictures of big cats from camera traps.

Bhowar was produced before a Thane court on Tuesday and remanded to the forest department’s custody till January 17

The incident, which took place near Vanjarvadi village in Nevasa taluk, killed two of the cub’s siblings, both female. The male cub’s whiskers were scorched in the fire.

One of the 108 camera traps deployed in and around the protected area for the study captured a tiger wading through thick snow in January 2017. Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary (DWS) is not a designated tiger reserve and is the highest site for the 2018 tiger census.

A day after Union minister Maneka Gandhi said the Maharashtra forest department had done nothing to rescue the two cubs of slain tigress Avni, a forest patrol said it spotted two 10-month-old cubs in Vihirgaon range of the Pandharkawada forest area in Yavatmal on Thursday morning.

In an interview to Hindustan Times, principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) AK Misra spoke about the controversy surrounding the shooting of tigress T-1

As a row rages over the killing of the alleged man-eater tigress T-1, or Avni, the forest department said it spotted pug marks of her two 10-month old cubs late on Monday, at the spot where Avni was shot.

Following the arrest of a gang of poachers a day earlier, Odisha forest officials confirmed on Sunday that the animal carcass they discovered from a pit near the Debrigarh wildlife sanctuary is that of a Royal Bengal tiger.

Intensive search and patrolling is continuing in the Ramnagar forest division for past three days to find an injured tigress that was spotted in the camera traps a few days ago

A female elephant was killed after being run over by a speeding train in Rajaji Tiger Reserve on Tuesday, a forest official said

17 people have been killed in leopard attacks in the Raiwala stretch since 2014

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will conduct the project in the three countries, with the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) and Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) playing a crucial role in synchronising the programme.

It’s been over one and half months but there is no sign of the missing Sariska tigress ST-5, besides the on and off radio signals from her collar.

A month after it was first caught on camera, the big cat is still all anyone can talk about in Jhargram, West Bengal. There’s impatience and fear, conspiracy theories (‘there is no tiger’) and heated debates at chai shops over the best way to catch it.

Fumes from a generator used to power lights and other equipment overcame the two as they kept the vehicle’s windows closed, forest department staff said.

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