In India, thousands of people live around India’s wildlife reserves and experience conflict in the form of crop and property damage, livestock predation, and human injury and death. It has been estimated that state governments spend ~Rs. 38 Crores ($5 Million) annually to compensate for wildlife-related damages to property and life.
In a landmark publication, CWS Scientists have authored a review publication on tiger population monitoring in the Malenad region of India. The study exemplifies the trials and error of tiger conservation in India, over six mega-projects from 1986 to 2017 under the Malenad Tiger Program (MTP).
Here is a fascinating conversation with Dr. Dale Miquelle and Dr. K. Ullas Karanth about tiger ecology and conservation today on International Tiger Day, moderated by Dr. Krithi Karanth. Between them, these veterans have nearly a century of experience working with the Bengal tiger and the Amur tiger. Apart from sharing their insights on tiger conservation today and the way ahead, both share some moving and inspirational stories drawing from their experience.
Blog by Dr. K. Ullas Karanth. As a wildlife scientist who has worked in tiger conservation since late 1960s, I have been asked by many [...]
ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ ಹುಲಿಗಳ ಸಮೃದ್ಧಿ ಮುಖ್ಯವಾದರೂ, ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ಪ್ರದೇಶಗಳ ಹುಲಿಗಳ ನಡುವೆ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೆ ಸಂರಕ್ಷಣಾ ತಂತ್ರಗಳು ಅಸಮರ್ಪಕ ಎಂದು ಅಧ್ಯಯನಕಾರರು ಕಂಡುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
Increasing local tiger numbers, while important, is an inadequate conservation strategy if there is no connectivity between tiger populations of protected areas.
A resurgence of poaching, once unleashed, will be hard to prosecute and control given other social pressures in play. The mass media and senior officials would do well to focus on this poaching issue as a part of Covid-19 responses rather than worry excessively about imagined tiger population declines resulting from the virus.
ಲೇಖಕರು: ಶ್ರುತಿ ಸುರೇಶ್ ಅನುವಾದ: ಸೌರಭಾ ರಾವ್ ಈ ಲೇಖನ, 'ಕ್ಲಾಸಿಕ್ಸ್' ಎಂಬ ನಮ್ಮ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ-ಲೇಖನ ಸರಣಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಎರಡನೆಯದು. ಭಾರತ ಪ್ರಪಂಚದ ೮ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಅಪೇಕ್ಷಣೀಯ ಜೀವವೈವಿಧ್ಯತೆ ಹೊಂದಿರುವ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳಲ್ಲೊಂದು. ಈ ದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ನೈಸರ್ಗಿಕವಾಗಿ [...]
Author: Shruti Suresh India has one of the eight “hottest” biodiversity hotspots in the world. Iconic species such as the Bengal tiger and the Asiatic [...]
ಮೂಲ ಲೇಖಕರು: ಕೃತಿ ಕೆ. ಕಾರಂತ್, ಶಿವಾಂಗಿ ಜೈನ್ ಮತ್ತು ಡಿನ್ಸಿ ಮರಿಯಮ್ ಸಾರಾಂಶ: ಲೂಕ್ರೇಷಿಯಾ ಆಗಿಲಾರ್ ಅನುವಾದ: ಸೌರಭಾ ರಾವ್ ಈ ಲೇಖನ, ಪರಿಸರ ಪ್ರವಾಸೋದ್ಯಮ ಎಂಬ ನಮ್ಮ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ-ಲೇಖನ ಸರಣಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮೂರನೆಯದು. [...]
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