17 May 2012 The Supreme Court has directed all states to demarcate and notify buffer zones around each of their tiger reserves within three months. While conservationists say the order would curb commercialisation of revenue land around tiger habitats, tribal rights activists think its implementation will result in repression of forest dwellers by forest departments. Click on date for more details

15 May 2012 A forest ranger and a forester were recently beaten up by the illegal mining mafia in the core area of the Rathambhore reserve. For more information click on date

08 May 2012 Aptly titled, 'Corbett, now on sale', a story in a weekly magazine brought an open secret out in print: The land around - and even inside - the Corbett Tiger Reserve is up for grabs, controlled by the country's Who's Who. It highlighted how tourism resorts have destroyed the Kosi river corridor, cutting off access for animals to a crucial water source. This matter had in fact first come to light in a report, 'Impact of tourism on tigers and other wildlife of Corbett', published in January 2010. Click on date for more details

Khana tigress relocated to Panna

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An orphaned tigress of Kanha National Park was Sunday morning released into the forests of Panna National Park under the re-wilding programme of the wildlife authorities. The tigress from Kanha will join its sister who was trans-located eight months ago to Panna.

Speaking to The Pioneer, the field director of Panna Tiger Reserve, R Sriniwas Murthy, said, “We will keep a close watch on the movements of this tigress (called T5) for the first 15 to 30 days. But it will at least take three months for it to adapt fully to the surroundings.”

Earlier, the tigress which was translocated by road under supervision of wildlife doctors and officers of Kanha National Park, reached Panna on Saturday night covering a distance of 450 km.

Kanha National Park director JS Chouhan said before the translocation, the tigress was tranquilised. Its physical parameters were recorded and a radio collar attached to its body in presence of Wildlife Institute of India experts.

The six-year-old tigress is among the three cubs that survived after their mother died fighting a tiger. These cubs were later housed in a specially built enclosure in Mukki Circle by the Kanha management to expose them to the killing of prey.

The male cub was shifted to Van Vihar in Bhopal about three years ago. The two tigresses developed their natural instincts of killing prey inside the enclosure. The mother trains its cubs in the killing of prey and, if it dies before it can do so, such cubs cannot be released into the wild and are sent to zoos.

The Kanha and Panna national parks are two of the six tiger reserves in Madhya Pradesh. The 1,945 sqkm Kanha Park was set up in 1955. According to Tiger Census-2011, Kanha has about 60 tigers. Spread across over 500 sq km, Panna was created in 1981. Now, Panna has five adult tigers, one male, four females and six cubs.