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Text: India – Entertainment Times, Photo: Ranthambore National Park

A Film On Ranthambore Tiger Queen Wins National Award For Best Environment Film.

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Machli, the legendary tiger queen of Ranthambhore National Park of Rajasthan, who won millions of hearts across the globe, is still making news. A film, which was made on the tigress, has won the Best Environment Film award at the recently concluded 66th National Film Awards.

The 60-minute documentary titled The World’s Most Famous Tiger was directed by four-time National award winner filmmaker Subbiah Nallamuthu. Nallamuthu says, “It’s my fifth National award and that is definitely making me happy. This film is my way of protecting the tigers and creating awareness about tiger conservation. It was also an attempt at pulling viewers into the world of tigers. Machli died at the record age of 20 years giving birth to nine cubs at the sanctuary and creating a gene pool for 50 tigers.”

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Machli, the legendary tiger queen of Ranthambhore National Park of Rajasthan, who won millions of hearts across the globe, is still making news.

Now with a movie called “The World’s Most Famous Tiger” by Indian filmmaker Subbiah Nallamuthu. The movie won a National Film Award and tells the chronicles of Machli’s rise to power, and the extraordinary legacy she left behind.

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Sumatran tiger drawing

Indonesia – source: Antara News.

The Environment and Forestry Ministry will release two Sumatran tigers into their habitat in Riau Province after it cooperated with the Dharmasraya Sumatra Tigers Rehabilitation Center-ARSARI Djojohadikusumo Foundation (PR-HSD-ARSARI Foundation) to conduct rescue activities.

The Sumatran tigers comprise a female tiger called Bonita and a male tiger named Atan Bintang, the ministry noted in a press statement released on Monday.

Bonita was rescued from a plantation at Tanjung Simpang Village in Indragiri Hilir District on January 3, 2018, while Atan Bintan was rescued from a residential area in Burung Island also in the district on November 18, 2018.

“The conservation of (endangered) animals would be successful if all sides were to work together. The result of PVA (Population Viability Analysis) shows the population of Sumatran tigers in their natural habitat reaches only 603 found in 23 habitat enclaves,” Director General of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Conservation of the Environment and Forestry Ministry Wiratno stated.

Read more: https://en.antaranews.com/news/129950/ministry-to-release-two-sumatran-tigers-in-riau

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Tiger art

Indonesia – source: Antara News

The global environmental conservation organization WWF-Indonesia has used an art approach to protect Sumatran tigers, in its collaboration with young rapper Tuan Tigabelas from Sumatra to hold a concert at Mount Pancar in Bogor District, West Java, in the commemoration of Global Tiger Day on July 29.

WWF Indonesia in its statement here on Sunday said it raised the tagline of “Sumatran tigers as the pride of Indonesia” and choose an art and cultural approach to awaken in public the pride toward the iconic species, based on fact that tigers often exist in works of art such as stories, songs, films and paintings.

WWF-Indonesia Partnership Director Ade Swargo Mulyo said the organization has collaborated with Tuan Tigabelas who had long been inspired by tigers in his works, to hold “Concert-vation: Concert and Conservation”.

Read more: https://en.antaranews.com/news/129884/wwf-uses-art-approach-to-protect-sumatran-tigers

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Eye on the tiger

India – source: The Asian Age

Even as we’re days away from celebrating International Tiger Day, news of an adult tigress being brutally beaten up in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh is doing the rounds. Tigers around the world succumb to such man-animal conflicts, resulting in the drastic dwindling of their numbers. Concentrated efforts need to be put in for their conservation, and creating awareness about the threat faced by tigers is a good place to start. The exhibition ‘Save the Tiger’, curated by gallerist Kalpana Shah and artist Fawad Tamkanat, takes a leap in this direction.

But the exhibition doesn’t overwhelm you with written details about the tiger. Instead, it gently nudges you in the direction of discovery by presenting artworks that draw out the beauty, charisma and power of this regal beast. And that’s why, on stepping into the gallery, one feels like one has stepped onto a patch of wilderness overrun by the big cat.

Wall after wall is covered with photographs and paintings that capture the tiger mid-move and mid-mood. In the photographs of Raj Salgaokar, Isheta Salgaokar, Rajesh Khanna and Urvi Piramal, we see the tiger in its natural habitat, engaged in mundane pursuit like bathing, dozing in a verdant patch, playing with siblings or even sitting stalk still, gazing into the camera. A similar candidness is captured in the paintings of Sushma Jain.

Read more: https://asianage.com/life/more-features/270719/eye-on-the-tiger.html

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Tiger family cartoons

Malaysia – source: New Straits Times

With the Malayan Tiger population in the wild already at an all-time low, news of the death of a tiger caught in Kampung Besul Lama, Dungun, Terengganu, recently, has set alarm bells ringing.

Siblings Delwin Cheah Wien Loong, 16, and Delwina Cheah Kah Yan, 14, despite their tender age, have taken a step towards raising awareness about the need to protect Malayan Tigers by starting a campaign on the issue.

The campaign, named HUKU, is derived from two Chinese words — Lao (Hu) and Tong (Ku), which means “the tigers are suffering”.

Their friend, Max Yeoh Pang Kuan, 26, is also helping in the campaign.

Read more: https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/07/507062/trio-want-give-tigers-respite

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Machhli tigress

India – source: FirstPost

Katy Yocom vividly remembers her first sighting of Machhli, Ranthambore’s once-reigning tigress, even though it was in 2006, more than a decade ago. “The first time I ever saw her, she was lying down at the edge of Rajbag lake. It was late afternoon and the sunlight was bouncing off her golden coat and her reflection shimmered in the water. She just looked so regal. She was a charismatic tigress,” recalls Yocom during a Skype conversation from her home in Louisville, Kentucky.

Machhli, a female tigress, once the main draw of Ranthambore and a subject of numerous safaris, documentaries, short films and books, prowled the Aravalli forests for close to two decades before passing away in 2016 with the distinction of being the oldest surviving tigress in the wild. Machhli is also a crucial character in Yocom’s debut book Three Ways to Disappear, set to release worldwide in mid-July.

Read more: https://www.firstpost.com/living/ranthambores-star-tigress-machhli-finds-a-place-in-katy-yocoms-book-three-ways-to-disappear-6950101.html

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Amur tiger artists

India – source: Eastern Mirror Nagaland

Vineizotuo Tase and Khrisaviku Sachu, two self-taught artists from Nagaland, have had their work adorning an event in Russia during the V-ROX (aka Vladivostok Rock) festival in Vladivostok, Russia.

V-ROX is an expansive city music festival, and an international conference on matters of the music industry and cultural management that was launched in Vladivostok in 2013.

The festival’s program included street art, music, gastronomy, and sports, as well as blockchain and crowdfunding platforms, and new music streaming. This year, the festival was observed from June 21 to the 23rd.

Speaking to Eastern Mirror on Sunday about their journey, Tase (30) said they landed in Vladivostok on June 16. They were asked to paint the Amur Tiger, which for Russians is a symbol of good luck and might. On reaching the place, the organisers requested the duo to complete

Read more: http://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/work-of-naga-artists-adorn-russian-wall-in-vladivostok/

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Rohan Dahotre tiger

India – source: Mid-day

As a former graphic designer at lifestyle brand, Chumbak, Rohan Dahotre, 31, has drawn more owls than he can count. “Easily a hundred or more,” he says. “I’m planning a book on how to draw owls, because many people like to draw them. Yesterday only I drew one.” At Chumbak, Dahotre not only started his journey as a wildlife illustrator, but also as an illustrator. A trained animator from Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune, he struggled to find work for nearly four years, before he joined Chumbak in 2015 in Bengaluru. After quitting last year, he moved back to Pune, and is currently focused on capturing the wild: on paper.

Since he started his journey, “My knowledge of animals has definitely increased. It is better to draw animals live because capturing that movement is very important. But I need to improve on my basic skills as an illustrator before I can attempt that,” he says. As a quick fix, he downloads images from the internet, “I study them, practise them, and try to draw it in my way.” Today, he loves drawing tigers, bears, rhinos and blue whales. These aren’t simple illustrations, which can be attempted by anyone with knowledge of Photoshop, but highly skilled portraits that take into account every gradient and line of fur on an animal’s body. “I like the form and proportion of rhinos. A tiger’s face itself is so beautiful. I have drawn tigers in Gond, a tiger logo, a graphical tiger and a tiger portrait. One animal can be drawn in many ways, just like painters can draw human beings in many ways. I also explore different styles and mediums: sketch pens, crayons, pencils.” For instance, he’s done a blue whale in a Van Gogh, impressionist-style, as a pen doodle, and as a mural.

Drawing animals has certainly changed him a lot. “I see many things originating from wildlife, and inspired from nature, whether it is patterns on a chameleon, leopard prints or tiger prints. Or different characteristics, like how jellyfish swim, or how birds behave and their flight patterns. The best part is, I don’t know even one per cent of [the natural world] right now. So, I’m excited to learn more.”

Read more: https://www.mid-day.com/articles/drawing-animal-farm/21301150

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Tigerland

USA – source: Tap into Mahopac

The fact that there are only 500 tigers left in eastern Russia probably doesn’t get a lot of play around dinner tables in Mahopac. But it doesn’t diminish the issue for a Mahopac native who has made a name as an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker. The endangered species is the subject of Ross Kauffman’s latest film, “Tigerland.”

“There are 4,000 tigers left worldwide,” said Kauffman, a member of the MHS Class of ’85. “If we lose the tiger, eventually we lose the forest. If we lose the forest, eventually we lose the habitat, and if we lose the habitat, we lose the water supply.”

Preserving the balance of nature made Kauffman’s travels to Russia and India worth it.

Read more: https://www.tapinto.net/towns/mahopac/articles/ross-kauffman-s-new-film-puts-plight-of-the-tiger-in-the-spotlight

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Art tiger

Bangladesh –  source: New Age

Australian artist Malcolm Arnold has portrayed wildlife, scenic beauty of rural Bengal and people of Bangladesh in a solo show now under way at Drik Gallery in the capital.

The weeklong exhibition titled ‘Bangladesh My Sketch Book’ features a total of 38 paintings and sketches done in diverse mediums.

The artist has used vibrant and strong colours to present, as he said, the colourful Bangladesh. As for mediums, the artist has used acrylic, watercolor and pencil.

‘I have painted these paintings in the last fifteen years. I have visited vhttp://www.newagebd.net/article/75120/australian-artist-portrays-culture-of-bangladesh​arious parts across Bangladesh and captured the scenic and idyllic beauty of the country in my paintings. The show is my tribute to the colourful and nature and vibrant culture of Bangladesh’, Malcolm Arnold told New Age.

Read more: http://www.newagebd.net/article/75120/australian-artist-portrays-culture-of-bangladesh

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Ranthombore tiger

USA – source: Newsweek

It is our first day at Ranthambore National Park, a gorgeous expanse of towering cliffs and thousand-year-old fortress ruins in the semi-desert state of Rajasthan, India. Our arrival here has coincided with freezing temperatures that swept down overnight from the Himalayas. It hasn’t been this cold here in 70 years, but despite the frigid weather, my traveling companion and I clamber into the back of an open jeep before dawn and roar down the road to the park, icy winds howling past our ears. We spend hours patrolling the forest as dust settles into the folds of our lap rugs.

After noon, the temperatures climb modestly, and we end up having a blue-ribbon day of wildlife sightings: chital deer, langur monkeys, a mongoose, a crocodile. We even get an up-close view of the ultra-rare jungle cat, a muscular feline about the size of a lynx. But we have not yet bagged the prize for which we’ve traveled halfway around the world: the Bengal tiger.

Tigers are rare these days, heartbreakingly rare. A 2018 census puts the world total at 3,890; at the time of our visit, there were even fewer. A few weeks before we left for India, a scandal broke. At Sariska, a reserve not far from Ranthambore, the combined pressures of human encroachment, genetic isolation and poaching wiped out the entire tiger population. Far from spotlighting the disaster, the authorities covered up the news. For months after the last cat vanished, tourists rode around Sariska in jeeps just like this one, looking for tigers that didn’t exist.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/lessons-connection-tiger-reserve-1443183

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Rohan Chakravarty

India – source: The Hindu

A lot of Rohan Chakravarty’s works are targeted at children, including characters like Shamsher, the tiger and Gaju, the baby elephant.

Do you know how many types of birds there are in India? “107 bird families, and about 1,300 species,” says environmental cartoonist-author Rohan Chakravarty.

Rohan has spent years out on field, observing not only birds but numerous other creatures in the country and abroad. It’s these observations — recounted wryly by sarcastic, development-hit animal characters themselves — that have found their way into witty, humerous cartoons on his blog www.greenhumour.com, three newspaper columns, a host of books, comics and wildlife maps.

Rad more: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/cartoonist-author-rohan-chakravarthy-comics/article27464293.ece

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Lego tiger

United Kingdom – source: Manchester Evening News

The Ultimate Brick Safari is coming to Knowsley this summer featuring giant Lego animals.

The collection of models – made from more than one million Lego bricks and taking more than 6,200 hours to build – will be revealed on Saturday, July 20 and will be there right across the school holidays, until September 2.

Visitors will be able to marvel at Tenzin the Tiger, a towering Bengal tiger made from around 85,000 bricks and Earl Grey the Elephant, who took a team of six builders more than nine weeks to create using more than 270,000 bricks.

Read more: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/lego-animals-knowsley-safari-tickets-16360908

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Lazo tiger

United Kingdom – source: The Guardian

In the three years since Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement berated literature for its failure to rise to the challenge of climate breakdown, fiction writers have made up for lost time. Indeed cli-fi, once a subset of science fiction, has been so quickly subsumed by realism that its days as a self-contained genre may be numbered.

The mass extinction of species has taken longer to percolate. While threatened ecosystems have sparked an explosion of powerful, elegiac non-fiction by Helen Macdonald, George Monbiot, Kathleen Jamie, Robert Macfarlane, Katharine Norbury and others, novels about wildlife have stuck largely to their traditional habitat of the children’s and young adult shelves.

But here, too, change is afoot. Polly Clark was already a prize-winning poet when she published her 2017 debut novel Larchfield. Its successor, the unsettling, immersive Tiger, joins a small vanguard of novels – including Laline Paull’s The Bees, Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy and Richard Powers’s tree epic The Overstory – which approach non-human life in diverting new ways.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/18/tiger-polly-clark-review

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Malayan tiger art
[Malaysia – Source: The Star]
 
A sand sculpture of the endangered Malayan tiger now welcomes visitors and market- goers at the entrance of Chowrasta market.
 
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2019/04/26/malayan-tiger-sculpture-drawing-crowds-at-market/#j4KxalvGvBxtHR0g.99