tiger poaching

Tiger Alert – Panna Tiger Reserve has no tigers

by Prakash Rangarajan June 27, 2009
Pix Credits - Avanindra Reddy

Three years back, the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh had close to 40 tigers. Today, one two tigers exist, not the original striped denziens of the forest, but two tigresses translocated from Kanha and Badhavgarh.

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The Sariska Tiger Relocation Project

by Ishrath July 8, 2008
The Majestic Tiger - Image Credit - William Picard

A painstaking combing exercise in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, revealed that there were no tigers left. All the tigers were poached out of existence. Total wipe out of tigers from the famed Sariska Tiger reserve was a national embarrassment. The nation witnessed the furore of wildlife activists, nature lovers and conservationists like never before.

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The call of the tiger

by Prakash Rangarajan January 9, 2008
Tiger at Corbett National Park - Credits - Ganesh

False dawn. Light hues married to waking shadows. The early birds and jungle fowls kept their tryst. Heralding the march of time and the message of daylight. Almost second nature. The light lit itself for a minute or two before the darkness melted in. Confusion reigns. It happens every day in the mighty jungle. Time in pause before the real dawn breaks free.

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