Three West Sumatra tigers have repeatedly trespassed into the farmland of Kota Rantang. This is a village in Palupuah Sub-district, Agam District, West Sumatra Province. The tigers attacked the cattle. And villagers are afraid.…
One of the last traditional tiger handlers in Indonesia’s Aceh province, Sarwani uses a complex mixture of rituals and mantras passed down from generations of practitioners to communicate with the animals.…
The tiger which had terrorised Kodagu has finally been declared dead by forest department, after they found a tiger carcass in Nagarahole reserve. Locals however are skeptical if it is the same tiger which had killed three people.…
The Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR), which was hitherto known for man-tiger conflict, has finally managed to turn around the situation with awareness campaigns, electric fencing and ban on picking mushrooms found inside the forest and considered a delicacy…
The tiger that was responsible for the death of three people in Karnataka’s South Kodagu district was found dead in Lakkunda on Friday.
The forest department informed that Lakkunda is the area where the tiger had killed the last person before heading into the jungle. “The carcass of the tiger has…
Veteran wildlife biologist and a renowned expert on tigers, K Ullas Karanth, speaks to Sharan Poovanna on the concerns surrounding the human-animal conflict in Karnataka
Are authorities dealing with the problem in the most effective way possible?
Not in my opinion, and this is not unique to Karnataka. It starts with the…
There have been at least 434 cases of tigers attacking cattle and humans in Karnataka in 2020-21, registering a 37% increase in such encounters from around 316 in 2019-20, according to data from the state forest department.
This includes at least nine deaths of humans in two years, around 10-12 cases…
A boy was killed and a plantation worker seriously injured in a tiger attack at Belluru village in Ponnampet taluk of Kodagu district on Monday. The victim was identified as Rangaswamy (8) while his grandfather, Kencha, was injured and has been hospitalised.
This is the third human death owing to tiger…
THE 11-member technical study group for human-tiger conflict assessment committee for Chandrapur submitted its report to Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) on Monday in Nagpur. Taking cognisance of the rising human-tiger conflict in Chandrapur, the Maharashtra Government had set up the committee in last October to assess the options…
The Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) which was hitherto known for man-tiger conflict has managed to turn the corner with the help of awareness campaigns, electric fencing and ban on mushrooms.
11 people died in tiger attacks in the past three years, a significant drop from over 26 encounters between man and…