This might be a very rare happening in the history of wildlife conservation. A gene mutation has become something exotic and an aberration is been celebrated. Perhaps, beauty of a white tiger has lot to do with that. So fascinating that we have gone very far in actually preserving and breeding that mutation. That has brought us to a point where we have world’s only white tiger safari at Mukundpur in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh. The safari was thrown open for public this Sunday. I was there at that occasion. Why Mukundpur? White tigers have association with this region. Although Mukundpur is in Satna district, it borders adjoining Rewa district. Erstwhile royal family of Rewa has been the corner stone of conservation of white tigers. Actually, fact is that there has been no ...
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With an aim to strengthen the tiger conservation campaign the second global tiger conference is scheduled to be held in Dhaka on March 4-6 which is a follow-up of the first conference held in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2010. The Department of Forest in Bangladesh along with Global Tiger Initiative, the Global Tiger Forum is jointly organising the Second Global Tiger Recovery Programme stocktaking conference among the tiger range countries. The conference will mainly focus on tiger conservation activities taken by the different tiger range countries and asses the advancement of the initiatives taken up in 2010. The global leaders of the tiger range countries had taken decision to double the number of tigers in the world by 2022 on the basis of the tiger population in 2010 when the n...
Read MoreOnce believed nearly extinct in China, the Siberian tiger, the largest member of the cat family, is making a comeback, the result of a decade-long effort to restore its natural habitat by banning logging, hunting and trapping. Chinese have been amazed not only by the apparent growth of the tiger population but also by how far the felines have spread. It made headlines around China this year when tigers were seen near Jiamusi, a city 140 miles from the Russian border. In China, the number of Siberian tigers living in the wild (far smaller than those in captivity) has been listed in government statistics at between 18 and 22 for some years. Nobody knows the exact number, because the Chinese don't have tracking collars on the tigers, but there could be as many as 40 now and that the popul...
Read MoreRanthambore Tiger Reserve and National Park in Rajasthan, India is among the best places to go in 2014 as per the no other than National Geographic. It has compiled a list of 20 places in the world, which ought not to be missed next year. The Best of the World list reflects what is authentic, culturally rich, sustainable and superlative in the world of travel. Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan in India is one of the most celebrated tiger parks in world alongwith Bandhavgarh in Madhya Pradesh. Ranthambore has been home to one of the most revered tigress ‘Machli’, a lead in one of the most well known wildlife fights between a tiger and a crocodile. Sighting a Royal Bengal Tiger in its territory is altogether a different experience. (Read: Tale of two tiger sig
Read Moreमध्य प्रदेश में कान्हा टाइगर रिजर्व को कई मायने में बांधवगढ़ का जुड़वां भी कहा जाता है। साल व बांस के जंगल, घास के मैदान, जलधाराएं, ये सब घोड़े की नाल की शक्ल वाली घाटी में फैले 940 वर्ग किलोमीटर के इस पार्क को शक्ल देती हैं। इसे 1974 में प्रोजेक्ट टाइगर के तहत गठित किया गया था। मांडला व बालाघाट जिलों की मैकाल रेंज में स्थित यह पार्क सूखी जमीन पर रहने वाले दुर्लभ बारहसिंघा की गिनी-चुनी जगहों में से एक माना जाता है। यहां की खूबसूरती, व्यवस्था और वन्य जीवों के संरक्षण की बदौलत इसे एशिया क सबसे बेहतरीन नेशनल पार्को में से एक माना जाता है। वन्यप्रेमियों के लिए यह बड़ा आकर्षण है। 1930 के दशक तक कान्हा दो अभयारण्यों में बंटा था और ये दोनों इस इलाके की दो प्रमुख नदियों हेलोन व बंजार के नाम पर थे। यहां के इलाके में पठारों के अलावा समतल तले वाली घाटियां भी हैं। पानी से उनकी मिट्टी चिकनी हो जाती...
Read MoreThe World Wildlife Fund said recently that at least 19 Siberian (Amur) tigers were killed by poachers in Russia since 2012. Body parts and skeletons of 19 dead tigers were discovered during seven criminal investigations by Russian authorities.There are only several hundred Amur tigers remaining in the wild, and most live in Russia’s Far East. Habitat destruction from logging and some development has reduced their historic range. Additionally, human activities such as poaching have contributed to their status as critically endangered. Poaching is driven by demand for tiger bones and other body parts for use in Chinese ‘medicine’ which is sometimes nothing more than superstition. In other words, consuming tiger parts has never been scientifically proven to have any medical benefits whatsoev
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