The tiger was seen in a picture shot from a camera fixed in Askot Wildlife Sanctuary in March this year. (Uttarakhand forest department)Forest officials have sighted a royal Bengal tiger at an unusually high altitude of above 12,000 feet in the Himalayas,
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The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest of the four big cats, and one that is very...
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INTRO‘There’s more to see than can ever be seen, More to do than can ever be done… There’s far too much to take in here, More to find than can ever be found…’Lion King fans may recall these moving lyrics from the Elton John song ‘Circle of Life’. And I was humming the same track, while experiencing goose bumps on my first ever Mara trip. To absorb the myriad life forms that these vast grasslands exhibit, is an experience beyond words. The mesmerizing motion of thousands, sometimes lakhs of
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The three-day Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation was inaugurated by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on April 12, 2016. This is the third such conference on tiger conservation.The Environment Ministry held a meeting as a prelude to the 3rd Asia Ministerial Conference (3 AMC) on Tiger Conservation. The meeting was attended by the representatives of four Tiger Range countries (TRCs) – Bhutan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Russia, besides senior officers of the Ministry, including
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