World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is deeply alarmed by the steep decliner in the tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve that lies in the far west corner of Nepal on the border with India.
ON JUNE 30th a doped five-year-old tiger flew 300km by helicopter, from a small Indian national park replete with tigers, Ranthambore, to a bigger park, Sariska, which had none. This was the first attempt to relocate wild tigers in India since the 1930s
Danger now literally lurks behind every moving bush at the Sariska Tiger Reserve. The four-year-old male tiger that made history on May 28 after its relocation from Ranthambore was released from its enclosure on Sunday and is now the master of all it
Five days after the much-hyped relocation of four-year-old tiger in Sariska reserve, a first of its kind in the world, wildlife officials now fear that the animal might try to return to its old habitat on releasing it in the wild.
A dramatic decline in the population of Bengal tigers in a Nepalese wildlife reserve has the World Wildlife Fund blaming the "powerful global Mafia that controls illegal wildlife trade."
A new survey shows that most Chinese would rather have tigers living in the wild than tiger products on their dinner plates. However the poll also revealed some notable contradictions in attitudes toward the trade in tiger parts.
The San Francisco Zoo consulted with at least four other institutions as well as outside animal nutritionists before determining that Tatiana - the Siberian tiger who escaped and killed a visitor on Christmas - should weigh about 250 pounds.
Scientists who helped relocate a tiger from Ranthambore to Sariska are happy with the big cat's progress. The four-year-old male tiger who was airlifted from Ranthambore, is reported to be settling down.
For a split second, Fatik Haldar didn't know what had hit him. It was a sudden, searing pain. His feet were stuck in the mud, in four feet of water in a river near Benifeli forest in the Sunderbans. Dropping his fishing net, he screamed in agony as
WWF is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, once a refuge that boasted among the highest densities of the endangered species in the Eastern Himalayas.
<p>Trafficking in wildlife and unsustainable harvesting, prompted by the demand for traditional medicines, is depleting Southeast Asia's rich and varied biodiversity, according to a new study. </p>
<p>Hit by rampant poaching and a rocketing trade in organs, the number of tigers is plummeting in Nepal, that once boasted of the third-largest population of the big cats, a government survey has said. </p>
<p>If trade in tiger parts were reopened, the demand in China would end up wiping out the 4,000 big cats that remain in the wild, according to a new study. </p>
