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The Latest Breaking News from the National Tiger Conservation Authority

How India Uses Camera Trapping to Identify Individual Tigers by Their Unique Stripe Patterns

No Two Stripes Are the SameA tiger's stripes are not just surface markings. They are set in the skin itself, the underlying pigmentation follows the same pattern as the fur above it, which means shaving a tiger would reveal the same design. Each animal's arrangement of stripes is unique: the…

Times Life · Sep 29

When Tigers Vanish From India's Wildlife Reserves, the Prey and Vegetation Collapse Too

Sariska, 2004: The First Documented CollapseBy 2004, every tiger had been poached out of Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan. What followed was not silence, it was a slow, measurable unravelling. Sambar and chital populations, freed from predator pressure, expanded into areas they had previously avoided. Overgrazing stripped ground cover from…

Times Life · Aug 31

What India's Cheetah Reintroduction at Kuno National Park Has Taught Science About Rewilding a Predator

The biology that made this harder than anyone admitted publiclyThe African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is not the same animal as the Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) that once ranged across India. The subspecies diverged genetically tens of thousands of years ago. When the Wildlife Institute of India and the National…

Times Life · Aug 15

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India and Nepal Are Building the World's Largest Transboundary Tiger Conservation Zone in the Terai

What the Terai Arc Actually IsThe Terai Arc Landscape is a 49,000-square-kilometre belt of grassland, riverine forest, and sal woodland running along the base of the Himalayas, from India's Uttarakhand in the west through Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, crossing into Nepal's lowland Terai districts and back. It holds eleven protected…

Times Life · Aug 13

SIT formed to probe Dudhwa tigress' 'sudden' death; NTCA seeks report

A special investigation team is probing the mysterious death of a tigress in Uttar Pradesh's Dudhwa Tiger Reserve buffer zone. The big cat, suspected of killing two people, was captured and declared fit for release, but suddenly collapsed and died. The National Tiger Conservation Authority has demanded a detailed report,…

The Economic Times · Jun 29

Post-mortem conducted on tiger captured in Kannur

Veterinarians on Friday conducted post-mortem examination on a two-year-old tiger that died shortly after its capture in Kannur. The tiger, which had been elusive for over two weeks, was tranquilised and caught around 3:30 p.m. at Adakkathodu in Kelakam panchayat on Thursday.

The Hindu · Mar 22, 2024

Madhya Pradesh notifies 'Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve' as its 7th Tiger Sanctuary

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Government has officially announced the establishment of the "Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve," marking the seventh tiger reserve in the state and 54th in the country.

The Times of India · Sep 22, 2023

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Kerala’s tiger population on the rise

Kerala’s tiger population has increased to 213 in 2022, from 190 in 2018, according to an estimate released by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).

The Hindu · Jul 30, 2023

Survey finds 306 tigers in T.N. in 2022, a jump from 264 in 2018

As many as 306 tigers were recorded in Tamil Nadu in the nation-wide census by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for the year 2022. This figure is an increase from the 264 big cats found in the 2018 survey.

The Hindu · Jul 29, 2023

16 tigers dead in Uttarakhand since January

The Forest Department officials are attributing the deaths to reasons like territorial fights among the big cats. Read more on The Hindu

The Hindu · Jun 21, 2023

India's tiger numbers DOUBLE in 50 years after crucial poignant intervention

By 1972, when India’s then-Prime Minister Ms Gandhi made the tiger the national animal in place of the lion, the big cat faced extinction

Daily Mirror · May 10, 2023

Rare melanistic tiger found dead in Odisha’s Similipal reserve, lone to house such cats in country

BHUBANESWAR: The male melanistic (black stripe) tiger was found dead in Nawna (south) range of Similipal Tiger Reserve, the only habitat in India that has more than 10 melanistic big cats, on Sunday evening.

The Times of India · May 1, 2023

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