Save Our Tigers

Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar, who last week went to Mumbai to convince rebel lawmakers to return to the fold, expressed confidence today that his party colleagues would return to "save the government"

Over 40 tigers have died in various zoos across the country in 2015-16 while eight wild cats have died in the current financial year, the government has said.

The population of tigers has increased from 1411 to 2226 in the last two years

Supreme Court has today ordered that tourism be banned in core areas of all tiger reserves in the country. It has said this ban should continue till it doesn't pass final orders in the matter filed by Bhopal-based environment protection NGO Prayatna. The NGO is demanding a ban on tourism in 'core areas' of tiger reserves while it can continue in t...

I would like to consider myself as an aware citizen of my country, but I must confess that having spent time with two campaigns on the 'Save Our Tigers' over the last two years with NDTV have demonstrated how little I knew about tigers and their conservation.

Gone are the days when India had a teeming tiger population of 50,000. According to the latest census, there are only 1706 tigers left in the country, but the big cats are known to be prolific breeders and every year dozens of cubs are reported from many of our parks.

Since the tiger is given the highest degree of protection under the law, one would think that the manufacture, sale, and possession of traps designed specifically to maim and kill them would be illegal. But shockingly, they are not.

Is tourism disturbing our big cats and should tourism be banned in the core areas of our tiger reserves? Well, that's what some activists say, but there are others who believe that it's time the Indian government change its attitude towards tiger conservation and tiger tourism and that tigers cannot be loved in isolation.

NDTV has taken over this entire hotel facility for their campaign 'Save our Tigers' and it is a sight you will never forget. It is complete madness!! The complexities of broadcast television, the urgency of timings and feeds and cuts and fade ins. The screaming and shouting of the time left, the coordination with Delhi studios and the anchor on sig...

The Save Our Tigers Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan joins you for a Live Chat on Sunday, July 15 at 9:00 am (IST).

Save our tigers

Don't fret too much about the title just yet; you'll see the light soon enough. Let me first invite you into the wilds. Picture this - one morning you wake up to the heat in Delhi, the next, a herd of deer just 50 meters away from your window and blissful cool breeze wafting through your bedchamber. That just about sums up the enthralling experienc...

A photograph of a tiger carcass is not exactly the image one would associate with sunny Goa. Yet, it's the strongest proof of the presence of the tiger in the tiny state. That was in 2009. Over two years since, the forest department is still cagey to admit the big cat's presence.

Giving a boost to tiger conservation in the country, the government on Thursday gave an in-principle go-ahead for five new tiger reserves across the country. (Also See: NDTV's Save Our Tigers campaign)In a move to decentralize and strengthen the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), it has also been decided to set up three regional offices...

More evidence of why we need to come together to save the tiger. Disturbing photographs show a five-year-old female Royal Bengal Tiger who was found dead near the Panchnoi river bordering the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park in Assam. The tigress had not been injured. She was discovered less than a kilometer from the Park's boundary. The entire are...

Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar, who last week went to Mumbai to convince rebel lawmakers to return to the fold, expressed confidence today that his party colleagues would return to "save the government"

Over 40 tigers have died in various zoos across the country in 2015-16 while eight wild cats have died in the current financial year, the government has said.

The population of tigers has increased from 1411 to 2226 in the last two years

Supreme Court has today ordered that tourism be banned in core areas of all tiger reserves in the country. It has said this ban should continue till it doesn't pass final orders in the matter filed by Bhopal-based environment protection NGO Prayatna. The NGO is demanding a ban on tourism in 'core areas' of tiger reserves while it can continue in t...

I would like to consider myself as an aware citizen of my country, but I must confess that having spent time with two campaigns on the 'Save Our Tigers' over the last two years with NDTV have demonstrated how little I knew about tigers and their conservation.

Gone are the days when India had a teeming tiger population of 50,000. According to the latest census, there are only 1706 tigers left in the country, but the big cats are known to be prolific breeders and every year dozens of cubs are reported from many of our parks.

Since the tiger is given the highest degree of protection under the law, one would think that the manufacture, sale, and possession of traps designed specifically to maim and kill them would be illegal. But shockingly, they are not.

Is tourism disturbing our big cats and should tourism be banned in the core areas of our tiger reserves? Well, that's what some activists say, but there are others who believe that it's time the Indian government change its attitude towards tiger conservation and tiger tourism and that tigers cannot be loved in isolation.

NDTV has taken over this entire hotel facility for their campaign 'Save our Tigers' and it is a sight you will never forget. It is complete madness!! The complexities of broadcast television, the urgency of timings and feeds and cuts and fade ins. The screaming and shouting of the time left, the coordination with Delhi studios and the anchor on sig...

The Save Our Tigers Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan joins you for a Live Chat on Sunday, July 15 at 9:00 am (IST).

Save our tigers

Don't fret too much about the title just yet; you'll see the light soon enough. Let me first invite you into the wilds. Picture this - one morning you wake up to the heat in Delhi, the next, a herd of deer just 50 meters away from your window and blissful cool breeze wafting through your bedchamber. That just about sums up the enthralling experienc...

A photograph of a tiger carcass is not exactly the image one would associate with sunny Goa. Yet, it's the strongest proof of the presence of the tiger in the tiny state. That was in 2009. Over two years since, the forest department is still cagey to admit the big cat's presence.

Giving a boost to tiger conservation in the country, the government on Thursday gave an in-principle go-ahead for five new tiger reserves across the country. (Also See: NDTV's Save Our Tigers campaign)In a move to decentralize and strengthen the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), it has also been decided to set up three regional offices...

More evidence of why we need to come together to save the tiger. Disturbing photographs show a five-year-old female Royal Bengal Tiger who was found dead near the Panchnoi river bordering the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park in Assam. The tigress had not been injured. She was discovered less than a kilometer from the Park's boundary. The entire are...