Tiger Express: A roaring journey, blissful experience
Courtesy: IANS, New Delhi IRCTC’s new semi-luxury train Tiger Express embarked on a “Roaring Journey” on World Environment Day, June 5 to experience the best of wildlife in Madhya Pradesh with some 24 nature loving passengers. By the time the train completed its first and last “tiger trail” of this season, a trial run, on June 10, (parks close from June 15), passengers had experienced among others - a magnificent tiger and its other subjects in ...
Read DetailBhutan’s Wild Cats: A story of Hope
From: GTF Newsletter Bhutan is a small Himalayan country that covers only 0.03 percent of the world's surface-yet is home to 30 percent of the world's wild-cat species. How is this possible? Bhutan's diversity of habitats, from subtropical jungles in the south to snow-clad mountains in the north, offer a unique environment for these wild cats to thrive. But in a region with rapid development and modernization, natural biodiversity is not eno...
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Alarm over illegal wildlife trade
By Nirmal Ghose, The Straits Times/ANN It was a discovery that shocked even those who feared the worst: 70 dead tiger cubs and other wildlife species stuffed in freezers. The Thai authorities, raiding the now infamous Tiger Temple in the western province of Kanchanaburi over the past week, uncovered what they suspect could be a transnational tiger-smuggling racket. For years, it had been breeding tigers and attracting paying tourists, r...
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Bringing Back the Tiger to Cambodia
Courtesy: IANS, Posted by Badsha ray, New Delhi The WWF report recommends at least eight tigers to be introduced in Cambodian forests, so that after successful breeding the population could rise to 25 over a period of 10 years. Eight tigers from India - six females and two males - would be translocated to Cambodia where the big cats have been declared extinct. The Indian tigers would be "re-introduced" in two different locations in Cambodi...
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