The government in the hill state of Uttarakhand removed the director of Corbett Tiger Reserve, within days after […]
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A farm laborer who escaped a leopard attack, mustered his friends, went back, tracked the big cat and […]
Less than 100,000 winged visitors have arrived so far in Harike wetlands in the northern Indian state of […]
Iron fences put up by owners of private farms on the periphery of Gir forest in India’s […]
India Tiger Mortality
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2015
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2016
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70
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99
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Tiger Parts Seized |
2015
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2016
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10
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22
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Data source: tigernet.nic.in
While the largest number of overall seizures was reported by India, there is evidence that traffickers are still exploiting a previously-identified trade route stretching from Thailand to Viet Nam through Laos — three countries where the number of tiger farms has risen.
Tiger deaths were reported from Assam’s Kaziranga, Kerala’s Wayanad and Karnataka’s Nagarhole in Oct. The last incident was […]
Malaysian authorities have busted a syndicate involved in trade of tiger and other wildlife parts and arrested three […]