Experts at the Corbett National Reserve in India's northern Uttarakhand state are carrying out a census on the number of leopards in the area, using the pugmark technique.
A leopard census began at the Corbett Tiger Reserve on Wednesday. The census, based on the pug mark technique, is being conducted in all the protected forests from May 28 to June 3. According to the last census in 2005, the number of leopards in the
A recent census of the Virunga Volcanoes mountain gorilla population has found that the great apes have increased their numbers by 17 percent, according to conservation authorities in Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Wildlife
Using a methodology developed to count tigers half a world away, a team of scientists from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society has completed the first-ever census of one of the world's most elusive big cats - the jaguar.
A milestone in the protection of the world's engangered river dolphins has been achieved with the successful completion of an ambitious 13 river, five nation census survey of South America's river dolphins. The census, which took two years and
Having been much criticized for its handling of the Caribou population, the provincial government is hoping that a census will shed further light on the problem.
The latest survey has revealed that probably just 1411 tigers are left alive in India (With a 17.43 per cent coefficient of variation. The lower limit is 1165 and the upper limit is 1657). Dr. Rajesh Gopal, secretary of Project Tiger, explained that the
For a team that spends most part of the year chasing elephants from human habitats, the forest department knows without even counting that the number of homeless pachydrems has increased in the past year.
Chief Minister of Orissa Naveen Patnaik has rejected the national tiger census figures for the state. According to the released figures, there are less than 60 tigers in Orissa and less than 30 in the Simplipal National Park, which is one of the first
Trying to save face, Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik has refused to accept that the state had a mere 45 tigers in the wild instead of 173 it has claimed for the past several years. Terming the tiger estimation report as "unacceptable", he reportedly
Number of tigers in India has gone down considerably, according to the latest census report on tigers. India had 1827 tigers when Project Tiger was set 35 years ago, however, the number has now gone down to 1411, as per the census figures.
Tigers are no longer burning bright in Indian forests. The number of tigers, according to the latest and more reliable census, is down to a meagre 1,411. The word reliable is used advisedly, since the new figure is based on the scientific method using
The number of tigers has declined by more than half in the country, according to a latest census released by the government on Tuesday. From 3,500 estimated in the last major survey in 2002, there are only 1,411 big cats left in the country
Federal officials say the annual census for the endangered Mexican gray wolf is getting under way in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.
Federal officials have been releasing Mexican gray wolves along the New Mexico-Arizona border since
