Big Bird Day is a yearly birdwatching event celebrated all over the Indian subcontinent in conjunction  with Delhi Bird Club. This year it is to be held on 24th of February (next Sunday), and is the biggest BBD. So far we have ● Around 230 enlisted teams / individuals so far from all over the […]

As Hindustan Times reported: Tourists can hope to see tigers in their natural habitat once again as the Supreme Court Wednesday softened stand, saying it wasn’t averse to “regulated tourism” in the core areas of reserves. “It’s the raised construction inside core areas and not tourists who harm tigers. Is it necessary that 100 vehicles […]

We reproduce the Time of India Report on interim ban on all tourist activities in core areas of Project Tiger forests. Popular destinations inside tiger reserves like Dhikala in Corbett will soon be out of bounds for tourists as the Supreme Court on Tuesday imposed an interim ban on all tourist activities in core areas […]

Bringing the spotlight back on the serious crime of tiger poaching, the state government has issued a red alert, following an intelligence input that international smugglers have paid an advance to the Baheliya community to poach around 25 tigers in Maharashtra. According to senior forest officials, field officers have already been asked to keep a […]

The Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary, which is home to famous one horned Rhino and many other varied and endangered willife species has bagged the status of a “national park” as issued in a notification by the Union Forest and Environment Ministry. The State Wildlife advisory board had sent the proposal to the central Wildlife advisory board […]

In continuance to yesterday’s news of the rare find of Melanistic Leopard Cat, TOI today reported its find and published the image captured by camera traps in the Sunderbans. Bengal Forest Officials had sent the two picturs taken by camera traps to the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) three days ago and got a reply […]

24 ghanta channel reported today that cameras at Sunderbans National Park has recorded images of very rare Melanistic Leopard Cat which is heard for the first time in India. A very good news for wild life enthusiasts indeed.

Almost 400 Greater Famingos, who came from Siberia after covering thousands of miles to breed in the warm marches of the Khadir region in Kutch have been electrocuted to death as reported by the TOI today. Although the Official counting stood at 130, the locals estimated the death to be much more than that. Mostly, […]

Thick and evergreen forests, extensive grassy land and meadows, cloud kissing peaks, precipitous and sparkling waterfalls, meandering rivers, roaring tigers and trumpeting tuskers, fleeing deer and flying squirrels, talking myna and dancing peacocks et al makes Similipal  a dreamland of nature in the wilderness and an irresistible destination. Covering a vast area of 2750 sq. […]

A) Govt. Lodging – 1. At Kisli – MP Tourisms Baghira Log Hut – Rates – Two bedded A/C Rooms – 4290/- Two bedded Deluxe ( including food-lodging & Tax) -5290/- In tourist Hostel 24 bedded Dormitory is also available @ Rs.890/- per head with food. 2. At Mukki – MP Tourisms Kanha Safari Lodge […]

The irresponsible attitude of some tourists visiting Corbett National Park created chaos when a group of them thrashed a jeep driver and a guide who protested when they were flouting park regulations. Police had to resort to firing bullets in the air to disperse a crowd of guides and locals who roughed up the tourists […]

TOI reported that the Rajasthan State Tourism Minister Beena Kak on Thursday spotted a Tigress and two cubs with the help of a powerful camera, when she noticed a would in the hind portion of the mother which was life-threatening. “The tigress was restless inside a pond. I zoomed in and saw a red mark […]

Speaking at the ‘Billy Arjan Singh Memorial Convention’, organised by NGO Tiger and Terrain on the noted wildlife enthusiast’s first death anniversary here, Salman Khurshid, Union Minister for Corporate and Minority Affairs said that opening of core areas to tourists would go a long way in curbing poaching. He, however, noted that “entry to core […]

A Collaborative study on problems of tiger straying in the villages of  the Sunderbans was conducted by Nature Environment and Wildlife Society (NEWS) and their observations are as under: A Collaborative study on problems of tiger straying in the villages of  the Sunderbans was conducted by Nature Environment and Wildlife Society (NEWS) and their observations are as […]

Official figures shows that in 2009 , 22 incidents of tiger-strayings took place in the Sunderbans in comparision to 9 in 2008, 11 in 2007, 11 in 2006 and 1 in 2005. Experts are of the opinion that rise in salinity level is probably the main cause behind this increase in tiger straying incidents. In […]