‘Tigers’ set to roam the streets in Thrissur on Wednesday 

‘Tigers’ set to roam the streets in Thrissur on Wednesday 

An exhibition of Pulikali accoutrements by Chakkamukku Desaham team for Pulikkali performance on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: NAJEEB K.K. Preparations are almost over for Pulikkali, the grand finale of Onam celebrations in Thrissur. The annual street pageant will be held on Wednesday. Team members, accoutrements, body painters, and drummers are ready. With bodies painted in … Read more

Uttarakhand to translocate four tigers to Rajasthan, says official

Uttarakhand to translocate four tigers to Rajasthan, says official

File image for representation. | Photo Credit: A.M. Faruqui The Uttarakhand government has agreed to translocate four tigers to Rajasthan following a request from the authorities of the western state. The process of selecting the tigers for relocation to Rajasthan has already begun, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) Sameer Sinha told PTI on Saturday. … Read more

Dearth of facilities to keep captured tigers puts wildlife managers in Wayanad in a fix

Dearth of facilities to keep captured tigers puts wildlife managers in Wayanad in a fix

Forest officials setting up a cage in a coffee plantation to capture a tiger on the prowl in Panavally area under the North Wayanad Forest Division on Friday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement With big cats on the prowl in human habitats, Forest officials are frequently called upon to capture the animals. But the dearth … Read more

Forest officials closely monitoring tiger’s movement in Chintoor Agency in Andhra Pradesh

Forest officials closely monitoring tiger’s movement in Chintoor Agency in Andhra Pradesh

Pugmarks of a tiger recorded on June 9 on the outskirts of Sukumamidi village in Chintoor agency in Alluri Sitarama Raju district. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT The Forest Department authorities are closely monitoring the movements of a tiger a day after a cattle was killed on the outskirts of Sukumamidi village near Chintoor in Alluri Sitarama Raju … Read more

Teja Kakumanu to debut as director with Disney+ Hotstar Telugu comedy web series ‘Save the Tigers’

Teja Kakumanu to debut as director with Disney+ Hotstar Telugu comedy web series ‘Save the Tigers’

Director Teja Kakumanu and actor Priyadarshi with Gangavva on the sets of ‘Save the Tigers’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The title, Save the Tigers, might lead to an assumption that it is a documentary or docu-fiction on saving the big cats. A Telugu web series has this title for a comedy- relationship drama in … Read more

Thailand jails five poachers for killing tiger and her cub | CNN

Thailand jails five poachers for killing tiger and her cub | CNN

Bangkok, Thailand CNN  —  A court in western Thailand on Monday sentenced five poachers to prison terms of five years each for killing a female tiger and her cub in a national park last year. The provincial court ruled the five men broke conservation laws by killing the protected animals in Thong Pha Phum National … Read more

Why India’s newest Tiger Reserve in Chhattisgarh is so important

Why India’s newest Tiger Reserve in Chhattisgarh is so important

This will be Chhattisgarh’s fourth Tiger Reserve after the Udanti-Sitanadi, Achanakmar, and Indravati Reserves. (File) The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on Tuesday greenlit Chhattisgarh’s proposal to declare the combined areas of the Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary and the Guru Ghasidas National Park as a Tiger Reserve. The new Reserve, located in the state’s north, … Read more