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INDIA: LEOPARDS THRIVE AS TIGERS VANISH FROM WILDLIFE RESERVES.
Interpress Service
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August 20, 2007
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By Malini Shankar
SARISKA, India, Aug. 17, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- A flourishing illegal trade in tiger parts has led the giant cats to become increasingly scarce in India's tiger reserves, which these days mainly serve as a home for elephants, deer and other hoofed creatures.
The illegal trade, which is mainly based in China and East Asia, has led to indiscriminate poaching in India's specially designated national parks and sanctuaries.
In 2005, wildlife officials in the Sariska Tiger Reserve, 160 kilometers northwest of Delhi, were shocked to discover ...
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Intensive search ordered in Sariska Tiger Reserve.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
; ...Concerned over the dropping visibility of tigers in Sariska Tiger Reserve in India's northern state of Rajasthan and adjoining...Monday. Tiger was last seen by the tourist in the Sariska Tiger Reserve on November 28, 2004. The last census of tigers...
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Sariska tiger couple at home, getting closer
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...relocated from Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, also in Rajasthan, through...Indian Air Force helicopters to Sariska Tiger Reserve in the last week of June...in the northern part of the tiger reserve close to Pandupole Temple...
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 "Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)")
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Sariska tiger couple at home, getting closer.
News Wire article from: Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)
; ...relocated from Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, also in Rajasthan, through...Indian Air Force helicopters to Sariska Tiger Reserve in the last week of June...in the northern part of the tiger reserve close to Pandupole Temple...
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Sariska tiger couple are together.
News Wire article from: Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)
; ...JAIPUR -- The shrinking Big Cat population at the Sariska Tiger Reserve may get a timely boost. Forest officials say the...predator cubs, added Soma Shekhar, Director of Sariska Tiger Reserve. Spread over 881.11 sq km, the Sariska Reserve...
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A Sariska tiger in Gurgaon?
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; Sanjeev K. Ahuja Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Feb. 6 -- A TIGER may have reached the doorstep of Gurgaon, wildlife officials said on Wednesday, adding that a team would soon scan the area for pugmarks to confirm it. Villagers of Teekli, 11 km from Gurgaon, have claimed that they have sighted
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Centre to pitch in for Sariska tiger project
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; NEW DELHI, India, Dec 5 -- The Centre has agreed to provide funds for the project of shifting tigers from Ranthambhore to Sariska. The Rs 460.70 lakh project is being implemented following poaching of tigers by hunters and the big cats' near extinction in Sariska. Rajpal Singh Shekhawat, member of
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+(New+Delhi%2c+India) "United News of India (UNI) (New Delhi, India)")
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Panna Tiger Reserve devoid of tigers: Committee.
Newspaper article from: United News of India (UNI) (New Delhi, India)
; ...officially announced that Panna Tiger Reserve was tiger-less since January...the inglorious category of Sariska Tiger Reserve in neighbouring Rajasthan...the inglorious category of Sariska Tiger Reserve in neighbouring Rajasthan...
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INDIA: RANGERS CLASH WITH VILLAGERS NEAR TIGER RESERVE.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service
; ...officials and villagers near the Sariska Tiger Reserve are still arguing about who...range forest officer in the Sariska Tiger Reserve. Kanhaiyan Lal Gujjar is...that skirts the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, which borders Sariska...
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INDIA: RANGERS CLASH WITH VILLAGERS NEAR TIGER RESERVE
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...officials and villagers near the Sariska Tiger Reserve are still arguing about who...range forest officer in the Sariska Tiger Reserve. Kanhaiyan Lal Gujjar is...that skirts the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, which borders Sariska...
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Process to move villages from tiger reserve starts
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...begun the move to relocate abutting villages at the Sariska tiger reserve. The move is expected to help curb poaching...of rehabilitation of two of the villages in the tiger reserve," Forest Minister L.N. Dave told IANS. Authorities...
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