Capacity Building Workshop:Malaysia
A capacity building workshop for tiger range countries was organized (from 13- 15 December 2016) by the Global Tiger Forum (GTF), in association with the Global Tiger Initiative Council, World Bank, Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) with technical support from the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) and Wildlife Institute of India (WII) at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The workshop was attended by senior frontline of...
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Capacity Building Workshop: Sariska, India
A capacity building workshop for tiger range countries was organized by the Global Tiger Forum (GTF), in association with the Global Tiger Initiative Council, World Bank, Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) with technical support from the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) and Wildlife Institute of India (WII) at Sariska, India. The workshop was attended by senior frontline officials from South Asian Tiger Range...
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Capacity Building workshop: Leh
The Global Tiger Forum, in collaboration with the World Bank and the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), and with technical support from Indian Institute of Forest Management and Wildlife Institute of India organized a 3-day capacity building workshop for snow leopard range countries in Leh-Ladakh, India from 7 to 9 November 2016. The workshop was attended by senior frontline officials from Bhutan, Nepal, India and Russia as well as representatives f...
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TIGERS COUNT UP FROM 14 TO 21 IN 3 YEARS: MANAS NATIONAL PARK HAS 7 MORE TIGERS
Written by Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Guwahati Amid reports of increase in the tiger population in the country, there is more good news. The number of tigers in Manas National Park and the contiguous Royal Manas National Park in Bhutan has gone up from 14 to at least 21 in three years. While this figure has been ascertained through the camera trapping method applied in a limited area, the overall estimated number of tigers is 44. “The study has confir...
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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 ...
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