Tiger Reserves

CHENNAI: A notorious gang of tiger poachers from Madhya Pradesh has been sighted in the Nilgiris. Their movement near forest areas in the district has forest department officiials on high alert. An official said they sighted the gang members in June end in Emerald area in Udhagamandalam. When they intercepted the gang members, officials found that they were staying in a dilapidated building. They told officials that their women go into the town seeking alms. Though    Read More...

Close-up photos show a female tiger cooling off in a mud pool, completely coating her beautiful striped fur. The three-year-old big cat rolled around in the muddy water until the majority of her body was caked - leaving just her head and upper back clean. The cool mud helps provide some relief from the scorching sun in Ranthambhor National Park in Rajasthan, India, as well as serving as protection from annoying insects. Photographer Jagdeep Rajput was visit    Read More...

A rare “pale tiger”, whose fur conservationists say could be the fairest of any in the wild, has been photographed in southern India. “It is the palest tiger I have ever seen on the record or heard about in literature,” said Belinda Wright, the founder of the Wildlife Protection Society of India. The animal was spotted last week by wildlife photographer Nilanjan Ray while driving in Nilgiri biosphere reserve in Tamil Nadu state. Pale    Read More...

PILIBHIT: A bizarre trend is said to be afoot in villages bordering the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR). Authorities suspect local families are sending older members into the forest as tiger prey, and their bodies then relocated to fields, to feign attacks and claim lakhs in compensation from the government. Villagers aren't entitled to compensation if their kin die in the reserve. There has been a string of recent fatal tiger attacks on the elderly, with seven death    Read More...

HYDERABAD: For the second time in a decade, Kawal Tiger Reserve, one of the two such sanctuaries in Telangana, has gone "tigerless" with forest department officials having no clue about what happened to the two big cats that had migrated from the forests in Maharashtra in 2015. After barely a year in the reserve, the tigers — a male and a female — went missing around November last year. The two migrant tigers had raised hopes for the reserve which ha    Read More...