Several of India’s best-known tiger reserves reopen their core zones on 1 October after the monsoon. Expect tall grass, full waterholes and a greener forest, and don’t count on a wave of new cubs just because the rains are over.
Corbett Tiger Reserve has published a programme for Wildlife Week running from 1 to 7 October, with a cyclothon, school debates on corridors and eco-tourism, clean-up drives and panel discussions across Ramnagar, Kalagarh and Kotdwar.
Kerala will double the compensation it pays for deaths and crop losses caused by wildlife attacks, the state’s forest minister said on Tuesday, as human-wildlife conflict keeps causing fatalities and crop damage in several parts of the state.
Felling has begun in Madhya Pradesh’s Dindori forest division, with about 2,000 of roughly 146,000 sal borer-affected trees down so far and a retired principal chief conservator of forests asking who independently assessed the need to cut them.
The Wildlife Conservation Trust has released a free, offline species-recognition model that identifies 40 kinds of Central Indian wildlife in camera-trap photographs with 97.3 per cent accuracy, aimed at students, researchers and forest officers working on tight budgets.
The last four of five young elephants sent from Assam to temples in Tamil Nadu this month reached their new homes late last week, completing a transfer the Gauhati High Court declined to stop but has asked Assam to account for, in a detailed affidavit on the animals’ welfare, before it hears the case again on 15 October.
On Friday, the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the Wildlife Institute of India opened the sixth cycle of a report card they’ve kept on India’s tiger reserves since 2006, and for the first time, reserves will be marked on how they handle their own rubbish.
A mother elephant and her two calves were found dead in a paddy field in Salboni, West Bengal, on Sunday morning, electrocuted by a wire farmers had strung around their fields in one of the state’s most important elephant habitats.
The Wildlife Conservation Trust closed its four-day Annual Review Meet in the Maharashtra gateway village of Sillari by handing out its top staff honour for heroics that had nothing to do with a tiger or an elephant.
A seven-month-old tiger cub strayed out of the forest and into a villager’s house in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district on Thursday night, setting off a rescue that has forest officials searching for a mother tiger who may have lost track of her cub.