New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to give its final ruling on whether tourism should be permitted in core tiger reserves or not. The Centre had earlier filed an affidavit asking the court to lift the ban.
The Centre says tourism should be allowed in 20 per cent of core areas and that the states should evolve guidelines to protect tiger habitat and tigers. The apex court had earlier slammed the government for its re-think on the ban on tourism in core tiger areas.
The Centre's affidavit had virtually urged the apex court to review its July 24 interim order banning tourism in the core areas of the wild cats until final orders. It claimed that the ban on tourism could result in not only loss of livelihood to several persons but also pose threat to wildlife and forests in the country.
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11:23 AM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on tiger tourism urging the court to lift the ban on tiger tourism in core areas of sanctuaries. The Centre says tourism should be allowed in 20 per cent of core areas and that the states should evolve guidelines to protect tiger habitat and tigers. The apex court had earlier slammed the government for its re-think on the...
02:02 PM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has given the Environment Ministry four weeks to finalise eco-tourism guidelines in the forest and non-forest areas. It has also asked all stakeholders to submit their comments within a week. Meanwhile, the ban in 41 tiger reserves will continue. The apex court had earlier slammed the government for its re-think on the ban on tourism in core tiger areas. The Centre's affidavit had virtually urged...
02:23 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre is expected to tell the Supreme Court its plans on tiger tourism. The apex court had earlier slammed it for its re-think on the ban on tourism in core tiger areas. The Environmental Ministry may ask for more time. The Centre's affidavit had virtually urged the apex court to review its July 24 interim order banning tourism in the core areas of the wild cats until...
08:58 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Bangalore: Even as the Supreme Court's order to ban tourism in core areas of tiger reserves is being hailed by wildlife conservationists, disconcerting news trickles down from Madumalai and Bandipur tiger reserves that hard-core poachers are still at large in the forests of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Close on the heels of ten notorious poachers being arrested from the BR Temple tiger reserve, a poacher was arrested deep inside the...
04:07 PM, Jul 25, 2012
The Supreme Court on Tuesday put a halt on tourism in core areas, which are the breeding areas of tigers. ...
09:30 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: In an unprecedented order, the Supreme Court has ruled that no tourism will be allowed in core areas of tiger reserves. The decision means that no tourists will be allowed in Ranthambore, Corbett and Kanha till the Supreme Court gives final order. According to the Supreme Court order, no tourists will be allowed into the parks starting Wednesday. However, Corbett and Ranthambore have already shut down after the...
07:03 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: The LTTE tortured and killed alleged spies and "traitors" and also looted Tamil shops and homes while fighting the Indian peacekeepers in Sri Lanka, a book by a former woman fighter says. Niromi de Soyza, who joined the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in early 1987 at age 17 and now lives in Australia, says she quit the group after realising that violence cannot lead to a...
11:52 AM, Jul 13, 2012
Hyderabad: The state forest department has declared an area of 1,175 sq km around the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR) as a buffer zone. The declaration came after the department conducted a three-month-long survey of villages in and around the tiger reserve. The department will submit a report to the central government in a weeks time. The Supreme Court had ordered all state forest departments on April 4 to declare...
12:49 PM, Jul 12, 2012
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09:12 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Kaziranga National Park: The Kaziranga National Park in Assam has come up with some fresh ideas to save its tigers. There are about 81 to 131 of them there. CNN-IBN's Arijit Sen travelled inside the park to learn about the technology that has been put to use to spot the big cats. Kaziranga National Park Director SK Bora said, "The habitat we are trying to protect appears to be quite...
09:27 AM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has come down heavily on poachers. State Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam has issued 'shoot-at-sight' orders to the forest guards if they saw any poacher hunting or laying traps in tiger reserves. The orders have been in place for the past 10 years but the field staff have been reluctant to implement them as some forest guards were being booked for violating human rights despite the government...
08:27 AM, May 23, 2012
On May 21, 1991, former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi reached Chennai by an afternoon-evening flight. After two hours, he was bound for Sriperumbudur, an industrial centre in Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu and just 40 km from Chennai. Rajiv was busy campaigning for the mid-term elections which had been announced after the VP Singh-led Janata Dal government had collapsed in October, 1990. The Congress was keen to avenge...
01:25 PM, May 21, 2012
The Sunderbans: The Ganga ends its journey in the Bay of Bengal, forming one of the largest delta in the world. Here, the nature is at its pristine best. Despite the difficult terrain, scientists are now using modern technology to count tigers. An odd-looking camera trap, with a sensor inside it, is used to click pictures of the big cat. For this, the scientists must select an ideal spot, where...
11:30 AM, May 18, 2012
Bangalore: Karnataka has become the first Indian state to set up a special commando unit for protecting tigers in its dense forests from poachers and hunters, a senior official said on Tuesday. "The 54-strong trained commando unit will be deployed from Wednesday in the two major tiger reserves located in Bandipur and Nagarhole national parks on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border to protect the wild cats from poachers and hunters," state's...
12:36 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Bangalore: Tigers in Karnataka can thank their stars. For, the state reserves with high tiger density will soon get a Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF). From January 4, 2012, the force will patrol the tiger belts to protect the felines from poachers and smugglers. The STPF is being constituted under the direction of Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) based on the recommendation made by the National Tiger Conservation Authority...
02:32 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Jaipur: The Sariska tiger reserve, which has two tigers and three tigresses, will get two tiger cubs to add to the big cat numbers. The cubs will be shifted from Ranthambore National Park, officials said on Thursday. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has given the go-ahead for the move, an official told IANS on Thursday. The two cubs belong to tigress T-5 who died after undergoing an emergency surgery...
09:48 AM, Jul 29, 2011
New Delhi: India will provide financial aid to develop the biggest harbour in Sri Lanka's north to facilitate transportation of goods from nearby Indian ports, according to a Sri Lankan official in New Delhi. The Kankasanthurai harbour in Jaffna peninsula will be developed in two phases. The harbour is one of 10 sea and air entry points to the country. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who holds the finance portfolio, presented to...
03:13 PM, May 08, 2011
Tokyo: Asia's tiger reserves could support more than 10,000 wild tigers - three times the current number- if they were managed as large-scale areas that allowed movement between breeding sites, according to a study. Just 3,200 tigers live in the wild, down from 100,000 a century ago, and those that remain face a losing battle with poachers who supply traders in India and China with tiger parts for traditional medicines...
05:01 PM, Jan 26, 2011
Geneva: Members of the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers group allegedly extorted millions from ethnic Tamils in Switzerland to fund their armed revolt against the government in Colombo, Swiss newspapers reported on Sunday. The allegations formed the basis for a series of police raids on Tuesday against Tamil individuals and companies across Switzerland, Zurich weeklies NZZ am Sonntag and SonntagsBlick said. Prosecutors announced earlier this week that 10 people were arrested...
09:56 PM, Jan 16, 2011
